Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Surprise! Study finds Subway’s chicken may contain less than 50% chicken.

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If you order a chicken sandwich you expect to get a chicken sandwich, right? Well not all chicken sandwiches are created equal.

A recent poultry analysis by CBC Marketplace made an unsettling discovery. According to the report, Subway’s chicken was found to contain less than 50 percent chicken DNA. 

CBC reported that Subway’s oven-roasted chicken contained only 53.6 percent chicken DNA, while its chicken strips were found to have only 42.8 percent chicken DNA. The other major ingredient was soy. 

Matt Harnden, a researcher at Trent University’s Wildlife Forensic DNA Laboratory, tested six sandwiches from fast food restaurants. The two Subway sandwiches were the worst offenders.  Read more…

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