Mechanically Separated Chicken Photo | Processed Meat | LiveScience Etc.
This photo, undated and unsourced, purports to show processed chicken of the type used in some foods. Credit: Fooducate
This photo, undated and unsourced, purports to show processed chicken of the type used in some foods. Credit: Fooducate
A photo that claims to show "mechanically separated chicken" is making not its first rounds on the Internet this week. But what exactly is it?
Some reports falsely claim it’s the stuff of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. Wrong, but close.
According to Salon.com, which checked with David Radford, director of sales and marketing of BFD Corp., an outfit that makes advanced meat recovery machines: Yes, this is what mechanically separated chicken looks like. That means no, it’s probably not strawberry ice cream.
As described by Fooducate.com, the apparent source of the latest viral spread of the photo, this sort of highly processed chicken is the means by which food processors “eke out a few more percent of profit from chickens, turkeys, pigs, and cows by scraping the bones 100% clean of meat.” Such stuff is used for those highly processed lunchmeats, as one example -- you know, the ones that are perfectly round in shape and smooth in texture.
Mmm.
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