Just when you thought McNuggets couldn’t get more disgusting
July 25th, 2010 | Published in Stumpblog | 4 Comments
From CNN Health:
All McDonald’s nuggets are not created equal.
U.S. McNuggets not only contain more calories and fat than their British counterparts, but also chemicals not found across the Atlantic.
CNN investigated the differences after receiving a blog comment asking about them.
American McNuggets (190 calories, 12 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat for 4 pieces) contain the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, a petroleum-based product. They also contain dimethylpolysiloxane, “an anti-foaming agent” also used in Silly Putty.
July 25th, 2010at 7:20 am(#)
Ha! I’ve always said that one of the reasons I don’t eat processed food is that I have no desire to consume the same chemicals that are on my lab bench.
July 25th, 2010at 2:44 pm(#)
From the article: “As a general rule, though, she advocates not eating any food with an ingredient you can’t pronounce.”
I don’t know about this, I think a much more helpful general rule would be, “If you don’t know what it is, look it up.” It’s not as if it’s hard to do; Wikipedia is a surprisingly useful resource in this case. And avoidance of the unknown just breeds ignorance.
July 26th, 2010at 8:51 pm(#)
The point is that food additives in general are at best inert and at worst actively harmful. Moreover, foods that contain additives are highly processed and lacking the nutrients that would be better provided by something you *can* pronounce, like beef or cabbage, so the presence of a food additive is a strong clue that the item in question is Not Good. I think what is being advocated here is not ignorance so much as innocence – being untouched by these things by not consuming them.
August 30th, 2010at 10:08 pm(#)
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