Just what is in your food?

First, read THIS article.

How many ingredients do you think are in a Chicken McNugget?

a) 2 – chicken and breading

b) 3-4 there’s chicken and breading and spices and stuff

c) 27

The answer is going to make you faint – there are 27 ingredients in a lone chicken McNugget (and we’re not talking 2 ingredients plus 25 spices!) HOLY CRAP! 27 ingredients (according to the article up there)!

From McDonald’s website:

Chicken McNuggets®:
White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, extractives of rosemary). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.
CONTAINS: WHEAT AND MILK.

I am trying to figure out what ‘botanical source’ of ‘natural flavouring’ might be…

(Plus, let’s also remember that the ‘chicken’ they use are factory farm animals, sooooo it’s pumped full of antibiotics and genetically enhanced with hormones etc.)

When I made my chicken tenders, I used free-range no antibiotics or hormones added chicken breasts that I cut into strips, dipped in whole grain flour, then in a free-range organic egg, then coated in whole wheat breadcrumbs (from bread I made myself using all good ingredients) I added a bit of pepper to the breadcrumbs, and then I fried them up in pure canola oil and they were TASTY and YUMMY and HEALTHY and FILLING!

I am also sick to my stomach think about salami. And hey, I TOTALLY support using every little bit of any animal you need for food –lets do it, and if we can make it taste as good as salami – I am ALL for it….but it’s everything else that they do to it to get it here – lactic acid to make it bacteria proof…again, if a food doesn’t get moldy and breakdown and eventually get bad, then it is not food for me! BARF! (I am thinking about that experiment they did in Supersize me with McDonalds food – it never went bad!!!!!!!! BARF!)



And if the rumours are true and gum takes 7 years to get through your system – how long does all this other crap take???