Chicken Nugget Pink Slime

Pink slime and mechanically separated chicken.

Chicken nugget pink slime.

Former mythbusters host grant imahara visits tyson food processing plant to investigate what mcdonald s chicken mcnuggets are actually made from. Mcdonald s reveals secret of top selling snack and says they are made of just breast meat and skin after claims the nuggets contain pink slime. Aka pink slime this picture is of mechanically separated chicken meat also called advanced meat recovery yes you read that right before it is made into chicken nuggets bologna hot dogs salami uh. How to make a chicken mcnugget.

Like many a mystery meat chicken nuggets are a questionable delicacy. While drumsticks wings thighs and even feet are recognizable parts of a fried chicken a nugget leaves an air of obscurity. The co founders of this frozen food start up say their goal is to provide healthier chicken nuggets to every kid in america. After an inquiry regarding pink slime or mechanically separated chicken in chicken nuggets we asked dr.

No pink slime here. Casey owens associate professor in the department of food science and member of the center of excellence for poultry science at the university of arkansas for some clarification she maintains that this is not the process used to make nuggets. Chicken nuggets haven 39 t always been made from pink slime nor were they invented by mcdonalds.