Ever wonder what food companies put in their chicken nuggets? A quick browse through the ingredient list reveals some mysterious descriptions, such as mechanically separated chicken meat, as well as trans fat sources such as vegetable oil shortening and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. In addition, many of the products are loaded with salt and come pre-fried, bumping up the sodium and fat content unnecessarily. We set out to make our own chicken nuggets from scratch and compared them to a store-bought frozen variety. Here is what we found. Click to read now. Thursday, August 20, 2009
Skip Mystery Meat and Make Your Own Chicken Nuggets
Ever wonder what food companies put in their chicken nuggets? A quick browse through the ingredient list reveals some mysterious descriptions, such as mechanically separated chicken meat, as well as trans fat sources such as vegetable oil shortening and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. In addition, many of the products are loaded with salt and come pre-fried, bumping up the sodium and fat content unnecessarily. We set out to make our own chicken nuggets from scratch and compared them to a store-bought frozen variety. Here is what we found. Click to read now. http://www.healthcastle.com/healthy_chicken_nuggets.shtml Ever wonder what food companies put in their chicken nuggets? A quick browse through the ingredient list reveals some mysterious descriptions, such as mechanically separated chicken meat, as well as trans fat sources such as vegetable oil shortening and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. In addition, many of the products are loaded with salt and come pre-fried, bumping up the sodium and fat content unnecessarily. We set out to make our own chicken nuggets from scratch and compared them to a store-bought frozen variety. Here is what we found. Click to read now. 
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Ever wonder what food companies put in their chicken nuggets? A quick browse through the ingredient list reveals some mysterious descriptions, such as mechanically separated chicken meat, as well as trans fat sources such as vegetable oil shortening and partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. In addition, many of the products are loaded with salt and come pre-fried, bumping up the sodium and fat content unnecessarily. We set out to make our own chicken nuggets from scratch and compared them to a store-bought frozen variety. Here is what we found. Click to read now. 