Chicken Nugget Pink

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.

Chicken nugget pink. 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. Processed meats chicken nuggets especially get a bad rap for their manufacturing process. Read more of what dr. 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.

There is no pink slime in chicken nuggets dr. We sent cameras around the globe to capture behind the scenes footage of how chicken nuggets are really made. Made from pink goo. You may think it s pink slime but the truth wil.

The chicken is mechanically separated and de. To get down to the bottom of what s really in your chicken nuggets we did some digging to demystify these urban myths. Don t forget to ask for extra dipping sauce. Have you ever seen one of those dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets and wondered how do they do that.

Apparently this is what chicken nuggets look like before they re cooked. Owens has to say about chicken nuggets and mechanically separated meat in an interview with best food facts. 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. Former mythbusters host grant imahara visits tyson food processing plant to investigate what mcdonald s chicken mcnuggets are actually made from.

We haven t even talked about what you ll find in. She then takes us on a tour of the entire chicken mcnugget process showing in blunt detail how breasts are taken from whole chickens blended seasoned and formed into nuggets. It s factory farmed chicken not free range chicken. I personally imagined some kind of cookie cutter shaped blade on a big machine.

So it s the kind of chicken that s typically treated with vaccines and hormones while being fed conventional feed products that are medicated with pharmaceuticals and grown with pesticides.