what kind of meat does McDonald's use in their chicken nuggets? how is it prepared?

Answer 1

It is 100% mechanically deboned chicken. They used to be white meat but about a dozen or so years back they went to a mixture of white and dark.

Answer 2

You know when you buy fresh boneless chicken breasts or thighs in a market? Well, they take the de-chickened bones and a machine scrapes the little bits of chicken missed, off. They blend these scraplings with Texturized Vegetable Protein (and that's another story!), MSG, 'flavorings' (what tastes more like chicken than chicken?), chicken fats, sugar and corn syrup, extenders and excipients (extenders), FDA approved colorings, preservatives, chemicals that prevent ice crystals from freezing, chemicals that protect them from drying out during while frozen, and salt, lotsa salt. OK, all this is blended. Then they extrude the pieces, forced through a 'die' like for pasta into the nugget shapes. There are two shapes but they aren't for white and dark meat. After being extruded they're thickly coated with cheaper coatings and more salt and fat, frozen for months until it's fried in cheap fats at your local MickyDs.

I would not eat them with somebody else's mouth!

No, I'm not a vegetarian but when I read the list of ingredients I almost puked and stopped buying cute little McNuggets forever. Just one of those things.

Answer 3

Seriously, in Europe they now use chicken breast and it is not minced, you can actually see the meat chunk.

I think McD have treated you really bad in America in the past, and you love to demonise them. They even have fresh salads which are actually fresh where I come from.

Have to say that the two times I have been to America the McD and BKing food was appalling. So maybe I understand you. On the other hand, this is supposed to be a franchise, so should there not be standards of food source and preparation across continents?

Answer 4

nicely, the place do i start up? it is created from chickens that are diseased frequently with some thing incorrect with them, Then the actually grind the completed element up (Bones meat eyes beaks) right into a paste, then they upload all kinds of stuff into them, even PAINT! have you ever considered great-length me? Its a sturdy action picture some American guy who eats not something yet Mc Donald's for 30 days, after the 30 days his liver is approximately to fail and all different kinds of issues are incorrect with him, it is powerful, it additionally tells you what the nutrition is made up of. He offered a great mac and fires, Left them for a million month, got here back and it looked typical, That shows what share preservatives they put in them.

Answer 5

It actually IS white chicken meat, but first ground into a paste and formed with conglomerate and seasoning.

Sounds not so good, but then most deli chicken and turkey rolls
and even hams are made similarly.

Answer 6

Uh, they don't use meat. They used to use a chopped & minced mix of white and dark meat chicken. Now they claim it's all white meat...but I'm not convinced.

Answer 7

there's meat in the chicken nuggets? no, really? I find that hard to believe.

Answer 8

It is SUPPOSEDLY white meat that is used in the process, but I doubt it, McDonald's has nothing that is made out of real meat.

Answer 9

Here in coastal Georgia they use seagull and pelicans. They have large boats with net guns to capture them, and use illegal migrant labor to pluck and prepare the meat.

Answer 10

A friend of mine actually cooks at McDonalds and she told me that they use the part of the cow and chicken that gets thrown away at the butcher like the eyeballs and gonads and stuff. YUM!