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How much Corn is in a McNugget?

05/23/06 @ 09:07:28 am, by Kate Hopkins Email 1143 views • Categories: Restaurants, Fast Food, Maize

The following is purely for entertainment purposes only.

The ingredients in bold indicate the ingredient is directly derived from corn.

The ingredients in italics indicate the ingedient is indirectly derived from corn.

Chicken:

  • Boneless chicken breast
  • water
  • modified cornstarch
  • salt
  • chicken flavor
  • yeast extract
  • wheat starch
  • natural flavoring (animal source)
  • safflower oil
  • dextrose
  • citric acid
  • rosemary
  • sodium phosphates
  • natural extractives of rosemary
  • canola and/or soybean oil
  • mono-and diglycerides
  • lecithin

Battered and Breaded with:

  • Water
  • enriched bleached wheat flour
  • yellow corn flour
  • bleached wheat flour
  • modified corn starch
  • salt
  • leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate)
  • spices
  • wheat starch
  • whey
  • corn starch

Breading set in:

  • vegetable oil

Cooked in:

  • partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, (may contain partially hydrogenated soybean oil and/or partially hydrogenated corn oil and/or partially hydrogenated canola oil and/or cottonseed oil and/or sunflower oil and/or corn oil)
  • wheat
  • milk
  • soybean

Some notes:

Chicken: Chickens are fed with corn.

Bleached wheat flour: Most bleached flours are often bleached with corn starch.

Milk and Whey: Dairy products from cows fed with corn.

Inspired by "The Omnivore's Dilemma", references found here, here and here.

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Comment from: ben [Visitor] · http://bengarland.com
Somebody is reading the Omnivore's Dilemma =)

As an aside, what do you think about the typography in that book? I think the italics is just awful. Something about the typeface they are using makes me cringe everytime I see it.

And the uppercase at the beginnings of some sections looks strange because it's sized smaller than the regular text.

The regular text of the other 99% of the book is nice though.

Or is it just me?
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/06 @ 10:28
Comment from: Chris [Visitor]
I find it hard to believe they get the citric acid from corn. It is almost always from citrus fruits, or produced from Aspergillus niger cultures fed sucrose.
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/06 @ 11:27
Comment from: Tara C [Member] Email · http://www.dementedkitty.com
Direct from the Iowa corn web site:

"Brown lettuce leaves. Many fruits and vegetables start to turn an unattractive brown once they’re cut and exposed to air. Citric acid, recognized as a safe food ingredient, can prevent browning…and much of the U.S. supply of citric acid is made from corn sweeteners."

I say that's really an indirect relationship, not a direct one, but the relationship certainly exists.
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/06 @ 13:31
Comment from: elle [Visitor] · http://www.californiariceoil.com
OMG-I think I'm gonna hurl(been wathing Wayne's World). Thank God I don't eat McNugguts-got my kids off of trans fats 5 years ago-it was like anarchy at first-now they don't mind.
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/06 @ 14:50
Comment from: McAuliflower [Visitor] · http://www.BrowniePointsBlog.com
I'm surprised you didn't give the attributes to this fun exercize.

Giving credit where credit's due doesn't detract from it being an interesting list...
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/06 @ 21:01
Comment from: Kate Hopkins [Member] Email · http://www.accidentalhedonist.com
McAuliflower...You're absolutely right. Updated with attribution.

That's what I get for writing posts at 4 in the morning.
PermalinkPermalink 05/23/06 @ 21:17
Comment from: jude [Visitor] · http://www.iniardwatch.com
Interesting... I work in the starch processing world.... Yeast can also be made from corn processing byproduct. Also, some equipment used to process corn starch/oils is also used to process wheat starch/other oils, so there may be some cross contamination resulting in more corn in your nuggets!!
PermalinkPermalink 06/04/06 @ 07:33
Comment from: Adam [Visitor] · http://sliceny.com
Crimey! I saw this link on Socialite's Life, where it said "Corn Chicken Nuggets." Was hoping you had some crazy cool new recipe. Sounded delicious.

This does present some food for thought, though. Will have to shun fast food nuggets and develop my own true corn-chicken nugget!
PermalinkPermalink 09/20/06 @ 11:39
Comment from: joanna [Visitor] Email
I made homemade chicken nuggets with real chicken the other day. SO much better than mcdonalds could ever make
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