Chicken Nugget Pink Slime

Turns out we know surprisingly little about how these ubiquitous golden hunks of deep fried.

Chicken nugget pink slime.

How to make a chicken mcnugget. The co founders of this frozen food start up say their goal is to provide healthier chicken nuggets to every kid in america. Poultry beaks and feet. 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.

Former mythbusters host grant imahara visits tyson food processing plant to investigate what mcdonald s chicken mcnuggets are actually made from. While drumsticks wings thighs and even feet are recognizable parts of a fried chicken a nugget leaves an air of obscurity. Like many a mystery meat chicken nuggets are a questionable delicacy. No pink slime here.

After an inquiry regarding pink slime or mechanically separated chicken in chicken nuggets we asked dr. 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. Msm is typically used in cheaper meat products such as hot dogs chicken nuggets and frozen dinners which need not retain the appearance.