McDonalds chicken nuggets are a favorite with children in many families. Parents buy "chicken nuggets ' believing that they consist of a few chicken. McDonalds also provides leaflets entitled "a full-service nutrition facts: choose the best meal for you." However as you can see from here is the list of ingredients, there is much more than just chicken.
Chicken, modified cornstarch, salt, water, sodium phosphates, powdered chicken soup (chicken broth, salt, natural flavoring (chicken)), dressing (vegetable oil, Rosemary extract, mono-, di-and triglycerides, lecithin). Battered and breaded with water, enriched bleached wheat flour (niacin, iron, THIAMINE MONONITRATE, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, bleached wheat flour, modified corn starch, salt, leavening (sodium bicarbonate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, dried corn starch. Batter set in the vegetable fat. Cooked in partially hydrogenated vegetable oil (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or canola oil and/or partially hydrogenated cotton seed oil and/or sunflower oil or corn oil). TBHQ and citric acid added to help preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an anti-foaming agent.
There are 38 ingredients in a chicken; many of them made from corn. Further down the list there are emulsifiers that prevent fats and water that separates the mono-and diandtriglycerides. More corn flour is used to make the batter, and hydrogenated oil where the Nuggets are fried may come from soybeans, canola or cotton seed, depending on the market price.
It gets worse: a number of ingredients from petroleum products to keep items of ruin or looking strange ' after months in the freezer or on the road. If you're really worried, try these ingredients: sodium aluminium phosphate; mono-phosphate acid pyrophosphate, sodium and calcium lactate. These are used to keep the animal and vegetable fats to turn rancid. Then there are agents "anti foaming" as dimethylpolysiloxene. According to the manual of food additives, this material is a suspected carcinogen and mutagen established complex and reproductive effector. It is also flammable.
The most alarming ingredient in Chicken McNuggets is "tertiary butyl hydroquinone, or TBHQ, derived from petroleum. This is sprayed directly onto the chip or the inside of the box that comes in to "help preserve the freshness". Once again, according to a dictionary of food additives, Consumer TBHQ is a form of butane (lighter) FDA allows processors to be used sparingly in our food. It may not include more than 0.02% of the oil in a nugget. That is probably a good thing, considering that the ingestion of a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of choking and collapse." Ingestion of five grams can be fatal.
You really want to give your children Chicken McNuggets?
Source: Gerson healing Newsletter www.gerson.org –
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