{"id":75615,"date":"2012-07-19T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=75615"},"modified":"2012-07-19T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T13:58:44","slug":"whats-in-a-mcnugget-canadian-mcdonalds-reveals-this-and-other-menu-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/whats-in-a-mcnugget-canadian-mcdonalds-reveals-this-and-other-menu-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a McNugget? Canadian McDonald&#8217;s Reveals This and Other Menu Secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Canada, why are you getting all the interesting interaction from <strong><a title=\"mcdonalds diet and nutrition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/mcdonalds\">McDonald&#8217;s<\/a><\/strong> and we\u2019re not? McDonald&#8217;s in Canada is making waves with their new \u201cOur Food. Your Questions\u201d campaign. Real customers are getting their tough questions answered about the restaurant&#8217;s food. Even the tough questions are being answered in very in depth ways.<\/p>\n<p>I came across this campaign after hearing that a McDonald&#8217;s executive chef revealed the <strong><a title=\"big mac secret sauce recipe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/mcdonalds-big-mac-sauce\/\">recipe of the Big Mac\u2019s secret sauce<\/a><\/strong> through a YouTube video. The video exists on the Canadian McDonald&#8217;s<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/McDonaldsCanada\/videos?feature=context-chv&amp;sort=dd&amp;page=1&amp;view=0\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube channel<\/a><\/strong> along with some other very revealing videos. Most are simply extended responses to questions asked at the \u201cYour Questions. Our Food.\u201d<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/yourquestions.mcdonalds.ca\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/strong>, only hosted in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0FeB79ynDa0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>At the site customers asked questions like, \u201cwhen you say 100% beef, do you mean the whole cow: the organs, snout, brain, kidneys, etc. etc., or just the plain beef we buy at the grocer?\u201d Or, \u201cDoes your <strong><a title=\"mcdonalds scrambled eggs ingredients\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/worst-foods-at-mcdonalds\/mcdonalds-scrambled-eggs\/\">Egg McMuffin use real eggs<\/a><\/strong>? They look too perfect.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The answers, provided via video are:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We wouldn&#8217;t call it plain beef, but it sure is beef. We only use meat cut from the shoulder, chuck, brisket, rib eye, loin and round. In fact, our beef supplier is Cargill, a name you might recognize. They&#8217;re the biggest supplier of beef in Canada,<\/em>&#8221; and &#8220;<em>The short answer is yes! Every Egg McMuffin sandwich is made with a freshly-cracked, Canada Grade A Large egg<\/em>,&#8221; respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these hard hitting questions get more than just a response, they get a live answer. For example, the special sauce video was a response to a question asked on the site. But the campaign is going much further than that. Customer Sheri N. asked, \u201cIs the thing about the Chicken McNuggets true? They are <strong><a title=\"chicken nuggets ingredients\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/chicken-nuggets-made-from-pink-goo\/\">made from a processed pink sludge of meat<\/a><\/strong> and bones ground up with chemicals?&#8221;<a title=\"canadian mcdonalds\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/whats-in-a-mcnugget-canadian-mcdonalds-reveals-this-and-other-menu-secrets\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-75741\" title=\"mcdonalds canada\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mcdonalds-canada.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a response, Nicole Zeni, Senior Manager of New Foods and Packaging Solutions of McDonald&#8217;s Canada, picked up Sheri N. and answered her question in person. Together the two women ordered several cooked and frozen Chicken McNuggets from multiple restaurants and took them to a lab. Sheri was taken through the testing process and told how the nuggets would be checked for bone particles and even dyes among other indicators that would imply <strong><a title=\"pink slime news\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/pink-slime\">mechanically separated sludge<\/a><\/strong>. This is all included in another YouTube <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0FeB79ynDa0&amp;feature=plcp\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/strong> from the Canadian channel. The last few minutes of the video takes place weeks later as the lab tech explains to Sheri the test results. In a nutshell, all tests stated that the nuggets contained chicken breast meat and nothing that implied the rumored sludge or slime mentioned in the news. I think my jaw dropped open at that point. Really?<\/p>\n<p>The channel contains several more videos and the site is full of great questions with some pretty good answers. The site says they&#8217;re doing this because they are proud of their food and they want Canadians to know more about it. Not that this info will change my overall opinion of McDonald&#8217;s, but what a bold move by the Canadian company, the type of move I can get behind. If they\u2019ve got nothing to hide, why not let us see? Granted, I know the info may be swayed, but the concept is genius. If fast-food haters and skeptics like me can start to question our firm-held beliefs that McDonald&#8217;s is enemy number one, well, I suppose anything is possible. Well, in Canada, that is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"mcdonalds chef coudreaut\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/mcdonalds-chef-coudreaut-cant-be-serious-that-he-sees-nothing-unhealthy-on-that-menu\/\">McDonald&#8217;s Chief Chef Sees &#8220;Nothing Unhealthy&#8221; with Their Menu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"mcrib ingredients\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/11\/what-do-a-mcrib-and-your-yoga-mat-have-in-common\/\">What do a McRib and Your Yoga Mat Have in Common?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Recipe: <a title=\"big mac recipe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/mcdonalds-big-mac\/\">Healthy Homemade Big Mac<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, Canada, why are you getting all the interesting interaction from McDonald&#8217;s and we\u2019re not? McDonald&#8217;s in Canada is making waves with their new \u201cOur Food. Your Questions\u201d campaign. Real customers are getting their tough questions answered about the restaurant&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/whats-in-a-mcnugget-canadian-mcdonalds-reveals-this-and-other-menu-secrets\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[437,474,2029],"class_list":["post-75615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-canada","tag-fast-food","tag-mcdonalds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75615"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75760,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75615\/revisions\/75760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}