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McDonalds, Wendy's etc...What are we eating?

BlessedOne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:41:50 GMT

Do we really know what are in the fast food we so frequently eat? According to this article, I dont think we do.

What’s in a Chicken McNugget?

You’d think that a breaded lump of chicken would be pretty simple. Mostly, it would contain bread and chicken. But the McNugget and its peers at other fast-food restaurants are much more complicated creatures than that. The “meat” in the McNugget alone contains seven ingredients, some of which are made up of yet more ingredients. (Nope, it’s not just chicken. It’s also such nonchicken-related stuff as water, wheat starch, dextrose, safflower oil, and sodium phosphates.) The “meat” also contains something called “autolyzed yeast extract.” Then add another 20 ingredients that make up the breading, and you have the industrial chemical—we mean, fast-food meal—called the McNugget. Still, McDonald’s is practically all-natural compared to Wendy’s Chicken Nuggets, with 30 ingredients, and Burger King Chicken Fries, with a whopping 35 ingredients.

So again I ask why do we still buy this food? Is it because its cheaper than the real food? Or are we just brain washed in thinking that this is ok? Or is it simply because it taste good?

My Caribbean Breakfast

Chatoyeh — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:13:59 GMT

Nothing like ah cup of hot cocoa tea with a piece of bay leaf and some spice, warm dough-boy, and some ripe grindee fry. When yo done eat that- yo good to go!

Breakfast

Admin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:58:32 GMT

Jamaicans are the only group of Caribbean people I know that eats lunch and dinner for breakfast. Yam, green banana, sledge hammer dumpling, mackerel, liver- how do they handle that kinder of food so early in the morning

Whats in your food

chatoyeh2 — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:51:19 GMT

Here is a sample of what the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) allow manufacturers to have in your food. Think about how they got in there.

FoodCan contain up to...

Canned Pineapples 20 percent positive mold tests

Canned Tomatoes 5 fly eggs and 1 maggot per 500 grams

Frozen Broccoli 60 mites per 100 grams

Ground Cinnamon 400 insect fragments and 11 rodent hairs per 50 grams

Peanut Butter 30 insect fragments and 1 rodent hair per 100 grams

Popcorn 20 gnawed grains or 2 rodent hairs per pound

Potato Chips 6 percent rotten chips