English McNuggets Better Than US McNuggets

Posted On June 28, 2010

If you just have to, have to, have to eat Chicken McNuggets from McDonalds, be sure to tack on the cost of a plane ticket to London.

Get this. U.S. McNuggets not only contain more calories and fat than their British counterparts, but also synthetic chemicals not found across the Atlantic.

OUR McNuggets have 190 calories, 12 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat for 4 pieces;

THEIR McNuggets have 170 calories, 9 grams of fat, 1 gram of saturated fat for 4 pieces.

OUR McNuggets have the chemical preservative tBHQ, tertiary butylhydroquinone, which is a nice petroleum-based product. They also contain dimethylpolysiloxane.

THEIR McNuggets have neither of these little bonus chemicals.

By the way, wonder why anyone would put the petroleum-based Dimethylpolysiloxane in FOOD?? It’s is a form of silicone used to keep the oil from foaming. When not being fed to American children, this chemical is also used in cosmetics and Silly Putty.

The other one … TBHQ … is a preservative for vegetable oils and animal fats. Just one gram (one-thirtieth of an ounce) can cause “nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse.”

Ask your doctor if “a sense of suffocation” is right for you.

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