Chicken Nugget Pink

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Chicken nugget pink.

Poultry beaks and feet. The internet is infested with countless horror stories surrounding how the drive thru staple is made most notably claims of pink slime and animal bones usurping the ingredient list. It s factory farmed chicken not free range chicken. Apparently this is what chicken nuggets look like before they re cooked.

I personally imagined some kind of cookie cutter shaped blade on a big machine. The chicken is mechanically separated and de. You may think it s pink slime but the truth wil. The official word from mcdonald s is that the photos and videos that made the rounds didn t come from a facility that makes mcdonald s food.

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. To get down to the bottom of what s really in your chicken nuggets we did some digging to demystify these urban myths. After an inquiry regarding pink slime or mechanically separated chicken in chicken nuggets we asked dr. Processed meats chicken nuggets especially get a bad rap for their manufacturing process.

Former mythbusters host grant imahara visits tyson food processing plant to investigate what mcdonald s chicken mcnuggets are actually made from. You ve probably seen the videos and photographs that went viral a few years back like the one above illustrating the pink slime that was said to be used in mcdonald s burgers and chicken mcnuggets. We haven t even talked about what you ll find in. Have you ever seen one of those dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets and wondered how do they do that.

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. There is no pink slime in chicken nuggets dr. Made from pink goo. We sent cameras around the globe to capture behind the scenes footage of how chicken nuggets are really made.

Owens has to say about chicken nuggets and mechanically separated meat in an interview with best food facts.