Do you really want to give your kids Chicken McNuggets?

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Do you really want to give your kids Chicken McNuggets?

Food Matters | Chicken Nugget

Written by Charlotte Gerson as featured in Food Matters

Mcs chicken nuggets are a favourite with children in many

families. Parents buy the ‘chicken nuggets' believing they are indeed

made from just chicken. Mcs even provides flyers titled " A Full

Serving of Nutrition Facts: Choose the Best Meal for You. " However as

you can see from the ingredient list below, there is a lot more than

just chicken.

Chicken, water, salt, modified cornstarch, sodium phosphates, chicken

broth powder (chicken broth, salt, and natural flavoring (chicken

source)), seasoning (vegetable oil, extracts of rosemary, 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 (baking soda, sodium acid

pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate,

calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, dried whey, corn starch.

Batter set in vegetable shortening. Cooked in partially hydrogenated

vegetable oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or

partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola

oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/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 McNugget; many of them made from corn.

Further down the list there are the mono, diandtriglycerides, and the

emulsifiers that keep the fats and the water from separating. More

corn flour is used to make the batter, and the hydrogenated oil in

which the nuggets are fried can come from soybeans, canola or

cottonseed, depending on the market price.

It gets worse: a number of the ingredients come from petroleum

products, to keep the items from spoiling or ‘looking strange' after

months in the freezer or on the road. If you are truly worried, look

up these ingredients: sodium aluminum phosphate; mono-calcium

phosphate, sodium acid pyrophosphate, and calcium lactate. These are

used to keep the animal and vegetable fats from turning rancid. Then

there are " anti foaming " agents like dimethylpolysiloxene. According

to the Handbook of Food Additives, this material is a suspected

carcinogen and an established mutagen, tumorigenic, 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 on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to " help

preserve freshness. " Again, according to A Consumer's Dictionary of

Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (lighter fluid) the FDA

allows processors to use sparingly in our food. It can comprise no

more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just

as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause

" nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of

suffocation, and collapse. " Ingesting five grams can be fatal.

Do you really want to give your kids Chicken McNuggets?

Source: the Gerson Healing Newsletter - www.gerson.org

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