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Monday, November 7, 2011
"Restructured Meat" ~ includes the McRib, chicken nuggets, meat the U.S. military buys. . .
I had never heard of restructured meat. While it sounds gross, it is just a meat technology. It's a process where salt is used to extract proteins from the muscle. The proteins become an emulsifier that holds all the little pieces of meat together in whatever shape is desired.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/04/142018151/from-nebraska-lab-to-mcdonalds-tray-the-mcribs-strange-journey?ft=1&f=1053
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