Subway sandwiches contain just 50% chicken

Started by Solar, March 01, 2017, 09:09:33 AM

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Solar

Hey Taxed, what were we just talking about last week? :biggrin:
This is why I quit eating at Subway and why I despise processed foods with a pasion.


If you're one of many Canadians who opt for chicken sandwiches at your favorite fast food restaurant, you may find the results of a CBC Marketplace investigation into what's in the meat a little hard to swallow.

A DNA analysis of the poultry in several popular grilled chicken sandwiches and wraps found at least one fast food restaurant isn't serving up nearly as much of the key ingredient as people may think.

In the case of two popular Subway sandwiches, the chicken was found to contain only about half chicken DNA.

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Will Mahood, a loyal customer who considered Subway chicken sandwiches a lunchtime staple, was alarmed by the findings. To Mahood, messages from fast food companies can make it sound like "you're taking it straight from a farm and it's just a fresh piece of meat."

DNA researcher Matt Harnden at Trent University's Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory tested the poultry in six popular chicken sandwiches. 

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An unadulterated piece of chicken from the store should come in at 100 percent chicken DNA.  Seasoning, marinating or processing meat would bring that number down, so fast food samples seasoned for taste wouldn't be expected to hit that 100 percent target.

The Peterborough, Ont.-based team tested the meat in:

McDonald's Country Chicken - Grilled

Wendy's Grilled Chicken Sandwich

A&W Chicken Grill Deluxe

Tim Hortons Chipotle Chicken Grilled Wrap

Subway Oven Roasted Chicken Sandwich

Subway Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki (chicken strips)

NOTE: The tests were on the meat samples alone, without sauces or condiments.

In the first round of tests, the lab tested two samples of five of the meat products, and one sample of the Subway strips. From each of those samples, the researchers isolated three smaller samples and tested each of those.

They were all DNA tested and the score was then averaged for each sandwich. Most of the scores were "very close" to 100 percent chicken DNA, Harnden says.

A&W Chicken Grill Deluxe averaged 89.4 per cent chicken DNA

McDonald's Country Chicken - Grilled averaged 84.9 per cent chicken DNA

Tim Hortons Chipotle Chicken Grilled Wrap averaged 86.5 per cent chicken DNA

Wendy's Grilled Chicken Sandwich averaged 88.5 per cent chicken DNA

Subway's results were such an outlier that the team decided to test them again, biopsying five new oven roasted chicken pieces, and five new orders of chicken strips.

Those results were averaged: the oven roasted chicken scored 53.6 per cent chicken DNA, and the chicken strips were found to have just 42.8 per cent chicken DNA. The majority of the remaining DNA? Soy.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-chicken-fast-food-1.3993967
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I'm afraid to ask what made up the rest of the DNA. Did it bark or meow?

Solar

Quote from: tac on March 02, 2017, 12:45:02 AM
I'm afraid to ask what made up the rest of the DNA. Did it bark or meow?
Soy, rabbit food. :biggrin:
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Thank goodness. For a minute I was wondering if those people that ate Subway sandwiches would be headed to the litter box or licking their balls.

Solar

Quote from: tac on March 02, 2017, 08:08:28 AM
Thank goodness. For a minute I was wondering if those people that ate Subway sandwiches would be headed to the litter box or licking their balls.
Nah, but their hearing improved and they can run really fast...
I think Chick a Fila is the only one not doing this shit.
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Quote from: Solar on March 02, 2017, 09:07:22 AM
Nah, but their hearing improved and they can run really fast...
I think Chick a Fila is the only one not doing this shit.

Chick-fil-A does not used any "pressed" chicken. Even their nuggets are real pieces of chicken.
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Quote from: supsalemgr on March 02, 2017, 11:03:06 AM
Chick-fil-A does not used any "pressed" chicken. Even their nuggets are real pieces of chicken.
They are the only ones I know aside from KFC, all the others use some form of processing.
Used to eat Schlotskies, but they started doing something to their meat, aside from nitrates and other crap.
Hell, remember when Swanson TV dinners were actually healthy? I seriously doubt the entire turkey dinner has more 15% of actual food value left in it, just look at the ingredients, potatoes is the only real food left, and it's reconstituted.
That shit they pass off as turkey is nothing more than a little turkey with a majority of cellulose (sawdust) and soy.
Sure I'm guessing, but I'd be shocked if half of it was actual turkey.
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Now at your local subway, chicken sandwiches that are vegetarian friendly  :lol: