Chicken nuggets: too little meat and lots of ingredients of questionable quality

Chicken rarely makes up 50 percent of the product. This applies even to well-known brands like Amadori and Findus.

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Along with hamburgers, chicken nuggets are a popular dish, and not just in supermarkets: easy to prepare, tasty, and they solve the problem of lunch and dinner in just a few minutes. It's a shame, however, that the best-selling brands of a food that can also be home-madeI promote nuggets that have very little chicken in them. While they contain several highly questionable ingredients.

But let's look at the most significant cases.

  • With the brand amadori The industrial nugget market is flooded with products (for example, Birbe) that claim to contain "100 percent Italian" chicken. Perhaps. But the total amount is less than 48 percent, and the rest is rapeseed oil, wheat gluten, durum wheat semolina, wheat starch, breadcrumbs, water, and corn flour. The Birbe with spinach or speck have a chicken content that drops to 37 and 34 percent.
  • Aia has several lines, from Chicken Nuggets From refrigerated counters to frozen products like Nagghy and Gourmet Selection Nuggets. In all cases, the chicken meat does not exceed 57 percent, and the remainder is wheat flour, water, sunflower oil, ascorbic acid, spices, and flavorings.
  • The classic Findus line, Chicken Nuggets, It has a meat content of just 46 percent. The remainder is wheat flour, canola oil, corn flour, wheat and corn starch, garlic and onion powder, and water.
  • Even McDonald's, unlike burgers (which have 100 percent meat), has a chicken content in its nuggets of around 46 percent.

Regarding water, it's worth noting that when it exceeds 5 percent, it must be listed not only in the ingredients list but also in the product name. But this is a rule that no one actually follows.

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