Chicken Nuggets Are Much Grosser Than You Feared Willy Blackmore - TakePart
go to original October 8, 2013

What Are Chicken Nuggets Made Of? (TheYoungTurks)

When you break down a chicken, there isn’t a ton of leftover. Once you pull off the breast, legs and wings, you’re left with a vessel of a carcass, the breastbone sticking up like the prow of a ship. But that fat, skin, gristle, bones, nerves and blood vessels aren’t the base for a soup in an industrial kitchen: It’s the beginning of your chicken nuggets.

Now, if you’re still under the impression that nuggets are made by breading and frying small pieces of cut from an actual chicken breast or leg, we’re sorry - what follows will come as a shock. And for those of you who have long considered the nugget to be a highly dubious food, we now have facts to back up your suspicions, courtesy of a new study published in the American Journal of Medicine.

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