Here are the 40 ingredients that go into your McDonalds chicken nuggets, including one ingredient used by shoemakers! Making the nuggets, seasoning, batter, bread crumbs, and frying the chicken, McDonalds uses:
Chicken:
1.White Boneless Chicken
2. Water
3. Food Starch-Modified
4. Salt
Seasoning:
5. Autolyzed Yeast
6. Salt
7. Wheat Starch
8. Natural Flavor (Botanical Source)
9. Safflower Oil
10. Dextrose
11. Citric Acid
12. Sodium Phosphates
13. Natural Flavor (Botanical Source)
Battered And Breaded With:
14. Water
Enriched Flour:
15. Bleached Wheat Flour
16. Niacin
17. Reduced Iron
18. Thiamine Mononitrate
19. Riboflavin
20. Folic Acid
21. Yellow Cornflour
22. Bleached Wheat Flour
23. Food Starch-Modified
24. Salt
Leavening:
25. Baking Soda
26. Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate
27. Sodium Aluminum Phosphate
28. Monocalcium Phosphate
29. Calcium Lactate
30. Spices
31. Wheat Starch
32. Dextrose: a sugar also used by shoemakers to make the leather more pliable.
33. Corn Starch: used for thickening food and is also used as a substitute for petrol.
Prepared In Vegetable Oil:
34. Canola Oil
35. Corn Oil
36. Soybean Oil
37. Hydrogenated Soybean Oil
38. TBHQ
39. Citric Acid: to preserve the freshness of the oil
40. Dimethylpolysiloxane: to reduce oil splatter when cooking
