McDonald?sAccording to the McDonald's website, this is the most recent ingredient list for those little boot-shaped McNuggets we all know and love: "White Boneless Chicken, Water, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Seasoning (Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Salt, Wheat Starch, Natural Flavoring [Botanical Source], Safflower Oil, Dextrose, Citric Acid), Sodium Phosphates, Natural Flavor (Botanical Source). Battered and Breaded with: Water, Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Yellow Corn Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour, Food Starch-Modified, Salt, Leavening (Baking Soda, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Calcium Lactate), Spices, Wheat Starch, Dextrose, Corn Starch."
It could be the fact that we don't know what 60% of those words mean, or that one nugget contains all of those ingredients, but we're a tad uneasy about it all. Did we mention that list doesn't even account for what ingredients are in the frying oil? We're guessing we weren't the only people feeling queasy. Thankfully, McDonald's has come around and is currently testing out a 'cleaner' chicken nugget, says Crain's. What's different about this revamped nugget? The recipe will be "simpler" as the company plans to do away with artificial preservatives. McDonald's aims to use ingredients its fans can actually understand, like "lemon juice solids and rice starch," for example. The test run started in March at only about 140 restaurants in Portland and Washington state. If our prayers are answered, the new nuggets will roll out across the nation in time for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
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