Thu, Nov-03-11, 10:17
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Senior Member
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Plan: tasty animals with butter
Stats: 170/115/110
BF:maintaining
Progress: 92%
Location: Northeastern Illinois
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Originally Posted by renegadiab
The meat isn't a true rib, but pressed together like chicken mcnuggets. I'm sure the sauce is full of sugar or HFCS. I wouldn't touch either the meat or the bun. Saturated fat is the least of my worries.
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Yes, the meat is chopped, pressed, formed, etc. This is an interesting comment from "Ryuu Shun Hayashi":
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"These components are in small enough quantities to be innocuous. But it's still a little disconcerting to know that, for example, azodicarbonamide, a flour-bleaching agent that is most commonly used in the manufacture of foamed plastics like in gym mats and the soles of shoes, is found in the McRib bun. The compound is banned in Europe and Australia as a food additive. (England's Health and Safety Executive classified it as a "respiratory sensitizer" that potentially contributes to asthma through occupational exposure.) The U.S. limits azodicarbonamide to 45 parts per million in commercial flour products, based on analysis of lab testing." If the bun failed the test of 45ppm the McRib would not be sellable in the U.S. You can bet the FDA is not going to stand for it. Notice that the article does not say 'how much' azodicarbonamide is present in the McRib bun, and also that the bun is obviously a commercial flour product. Nobody said McDonald's is ADDING azodicarbonamide to the bun. So they're not using it as a food additive any more than Europe or Australia are. The main point of this paragraph really is the first sentence. "These components are in small enough quantities to be innocuous." Everything and its dog contains trace amounts of toxin anyway, it's the dosage that makes any poison deadly. Something being on the ingredient list doesn't necessarily mean it was intentionally added, it just means that it's in there. If anything, you should be happy that McDonald's knows what ended up in their final product to such a high level of detail. And that since they can detect toxins at concentrations below 45ppm, you know that there's nothing poisonous hidden inside which they didn't already tell you about.
===== McRib Ingredients
McRib Patty: Boneless pork (Pork, water, salt, dextrose, citric acid, BHA, TBHQ).
McRib Bun: Flour (wheat flour bleached and enriched with thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, iron, folic acid, malted barley flour), water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, vegetable oil (partially hydrogenated soybean oil, cottonseed oil). Contains 2 percent or less of dextrose, fumaric acid, calcium sulphate, salt, acetic acid, soy flour, monocalcium phosphate, ammonium sulphate, cornstarch, fungal protease, natural culture, ammonium chloride, ascorbic acid, azodicarbomide, mono- and diglycerides, propionic acid, phosphoric acid, corn flour, calcium peroxide, calcium propionate, dicetyl tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides, ethoxylated mono- and diglycerides.
McRib Sauce: Water, high fructose corn syrup, tomato paste, distilled vinegar, molasses, natural smoke flavor, modified food starch, salt, sugar, soybean oil, spices, onion*, mustard flour, garlic *, xanthan gum, caramel color, sodium benzoate (preservative), natural flavor (vegetable source), corn oil. *Dehydrated Pickle Slices Cucumbers, water, vinegar, salt, calcium chloride, alum, natural flavorings (vegetable source), polysorbate 80, turmeric (color).
Slivered Onions ===== So as you can see, what they're really adding into the McRib on purpose are: boneless pork, flour, water, high fructose corn syrup, yeast, vegetable oil, tomato paste, distilled vinegar, molasses, natural smoke flavour, modified food starch, salt, sugar, soybean oil, spices, onions, mustard flour, garlic, xanthan gum, caramel color, sodium benzoate, natural flavour, corn oil, cucumbers, calcium chloride, alum, natural flavourings, polysorbate 80 and tumeric. Polysorbate 80 is a very common food and medicine emulsifier, it is not toxic at its usual concentrations. Without it, the sauce will separate into its water and oil components, which would make that resultant mess unfit for consumption. Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/10/.../#ixzz1cewvSps4
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