What's in that chicken nugget?
Like chicken nuggets? What kid doesn’t like a meal of chicken nuggets, fries and a soft drink? So how healthy are those chicken nuggets? In the class I teach, students always say chicken nuggets are healthy because chicken is healthy. True, a baked chicken breast without the skin is lean protein and quite healthy. But fried foods like chicken nuggets are drenched in fat so that is already one strike against them. And is the meat in a chicken nugget really lean white meat? Well this week, NBC news ran a story What's in that chicken nugget? They noted how researchers in Mississippi analyzed chicken nuggets to find out what is in them. They purchased chicken nuggets from two nationally recognized fast food chains, went back to their labs and preserved, stained and analyzed the contents of the nuggets. Chicken nugget – Fast Food Restaurant 1 ...