Chicken Nugget Pink Slime

Former mythbusters host grant imahara visits tyson food processing plant to investigate what mcdonald s chicken mcnuggets are actually made from.

Chicken nugget pink slime.

How to make a chicken mcnugget. Casey owens associate professor in the department of food science and member of the center of excellence for poultry science at the university of arkansas for some clarification she maintains that this is not the process used to make nuggets. Like many a mystery meat chicken nuggets are a questionable delicacy. Aka pink slime this picture is of mechanically separated chicken meat also called advanced meat recovery yes you read that right before it is made into chicken nuggets bologna hot dogs salami uh.

While drumsticks wings thighs and even feet are recognizable parts of a fried chicken a nugget leaves an air of obscurity. Pink slime and mechanically separated chicken. Turns out we know surprisingly little about how these ubiquitous golden hunks of deep fried. No pink slime here.

Msm is typically used in cheaper meat products such as hot dogs chicken nuggets and frozen dinners which need not retain the appearance. After an inquiry regarding pink slime or mechanically separated chicken in chicken nuggets we asked dr. Poultry beaks and feet.