What's Really in a McDonald's Chicken McNugget?
Got this article from Mercola.com, which is one of the leading websites on natural health and preventive medicine.
Chicken McNuggets include several synthetic ingredients, such as tertiary butylhydroquinone (TBHQ),
a petroleum-derived chemical sprayed onto the "food" or inside the box to
preserve freshness.
Deep-fried foods in general are also dangerous in
many ways, which is why French
fries remain one of the worst foods anyone could eat.
Also, about
one-third of the ingredients necessary to make the average McNugget (13 out of a
lengthy list of 38) include some derivatives of corn, which may explain one
reason why industrial agriculture produces so much of it -- in addition to the lucrative subsidies.
Doesn't it scare you? I know when I read about the immortal hamburgers from macs, I have been avoiding them a fair bit. Thats not too say I'll never eat burgers or nuggets again.. Its just... scary.
2 comments:
Best to avoid all fast food! The book Fast Food Nation goes into further detail... not just into the nutritional info on fast food, but the workings of the meat suppliers, why fast food is so cheap (at least in the US) and what kind of social and health effects fast food has on society. Thanks for blogging about this.
How true how true! I'm actually relatively partial to fast food and meat in general.
For example, the movie on super size me, actually paints a fairly extremist picture. I understand the guy took almost 4000 calories a day. Compared to most people who eat 1500 calories a day. Its a kind of shock effect. In a way, it does scare people into not taking fast food. But it actually ignores the underlying 'evils' of fast food.
One of them would be the hydrogenated vegetable oil, commonly known as trans fatty acid. (I'll post an article about that sometime) In fact, almost anything thats fried has trans fatty acid. Even most cake and pastries too.
Meat suppliers.. Thats another story altogether :) Even crop farmers. Ugh!
I think you would love this book known as 'The China Study' by T. Colin Campbell
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