Mr. Breitsprecher’s Edition September 2016 www.myBusinessEd.com McDonald's has gone bare bones for its already boneless Just what part of a chicken McNuggets - no more artificial is the “nugget” anyhow? colors or preservatives, antibiotics or hormones. The world's No. 1 A chicken nugget is a chicken product made from burger baron has even taken the either meat slurry or chicken breasts cut to shape, preservative TBHQ out of its fry breaded or battered, then deep-fried or baked. Fast oil. food restaurants typically fry their nuggets in Hey, I love TBHQ! It's almost vegetable oil. as delicious as Yellow Dye No. 5 Some fast food restaurants have launched vegetarian - my favorite artificial color. alternatives. McDonald's served Garden McNuggets The old McNuggets recipe made of beans and Swedish fast food restaurant Max Hamburgare offers a dish containing nuggets made of falafel. Quorn also supplies vegetarian had 38 ingredients, including chicken style nuggets. some that would stump those The chicken nugget was invented in the 1950s by Robert C. Baker, a home-school kids in the national food science professor at Cornell University, and published as unpatented spelling bee. academic work. Dr. Baker's innovations made it possible to form chicken The new Chicken McNuggets nuggets in any shape. The McDonald's recipe for Chicken McNuggets was - by piece count the most popular created on commission from McDonald's by Tyson Foods in 1979 and the item on McDonald's menu - aren't product was sold beginning in 1980. exactly good for you. Let's just A study published in the American Journal of Medicine (November, say, they're probably not as bad 2013) analyzed the composition of chicken nuggets from 2 different for you as the old model. American fast food chains. The study found that less than half of the McNuggets have traditionally material was skeletal muscle, with fat occurring in equal or greater gotten a bad rap. You've probably quantities. Other components included epithelial tissue, bone, nervous seen that Internet rumor photo of tissue, and connective tissue. The authors concluded that "Chicken nuggets "pink slime" oozing from a are mostly fat, and their name is a misnomer. machine like Dairy Queen soft serve. That's not the stuff that chicken, but they're kind of without negatively affecting the makes these chicken treats. irresistible, even for grown-ups who fun and flavor of McNuggets. Fact is, McNuggets have sneak a couple from their kids' Another kind of bottom line always been made from white Happy Meals. may be a bigger problem. While meat chicken. It was the long list They're really tasty and crispy, McDonald's is selling McNuggets of additives that spoiled the and you can eat bunches of them. 10 for $3.99, Burger King is "parental feel good" of Given the choice between the old discounting its chicken nuggets 10 McNuggets. recipe McNuggets with hormonal for $1.49. That's not cheaper ... Now the preservatives are chicken and artificial color and that's a whole lot cheaper. gone. In part, it's because preservatives … and the new, With new and improved McNuggets are so popular now, simplified McNuggets, the choice is McNuggets, McDonald's is playing they don't require a prolonged simple: I'll take the new. to parents who read ingredient shelf life. McNuggets don't stick I couldn't tell the difference labels and don't mind paying more around long enough to spoil in the between the old and new McNuggets for what's being sold as a higher store fridge. for taste. Which is a positive. quality product. McNuggets are still "glued 'n' McDonald's was able to take out Ken Hoffman, August 31, 2016 chewed," mixed-up, ground-up some pretty scary ingredients http://www.chron.com .