LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — If you think that chicken sandwich you ordered at Subway did not fully taste like fowl, you may have been right.
According to a Canadian study, a DNA test showed only half of Subway’s oven-roasted patty is made with real chicken.
Subway was among five fast-food restaurants whose chicken the Canadian Broadcast Corporation had tested.
The results showed the Oven Roasted Chicken patties averaged 53.6 percent chicken DNA while the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki strips came in at 42.8 percent.
The sandwich chain refuted the results of the DNA test in a released statement:
“SUBWAY Canada cannot confirm the veracity of the results of the lab testing you had conducted. However, we are concerned by the alleged findings you cite with respect to the proportion of soy content. Our chicken strips and oven roasted chicken contain 1% or less of soy protein. We use this ingredient in these products as a means to help stabilize the texture and moisture. All of our chicken items are made from 100% white meat chicken which is marinated, oven roasted and grilled. We tested our chicken products recently for nutritional and quality attributes and found it met our food quality standards. We will look into this again with our supplier to ensure that the chicken is meeting the high standard we set for all of our menu items and ingredients.”
In case you wondered what the rest of the patties and chicken strips are made of: It’s soy.
The same test was done on the chicken Wendy’s and McDonald’s serve.
Wendy’s grilled chicken sandwich averaged 88.5 percent chicken, while McDonald’s Grilled Country Chicken averaged 84.9 percent, according to the findings.
Wendy’s response: “Wendy’s Grilled Chicken Sandwich is a whole muscle chicken breast fillet; not reformed or restructured. In addition, we use only 100% Canadian chicken in Canada. For our grilled chicken sandwich and other grilled chicken products (salads, wraps, etc.) we use a juicy, all-white meat chicken breast fillet, marinated in a blend of herbs. We do not provide ingredient percentages as we consider that information to be proprietary.”
McDonald’s response: “Our grilled chicken sandwich is made with 100% seasoned chicken breast. The chicken breast is (a single piece) trimmed for size to fit the sandwich. We don’t release the percentage of each ingredient for competitive reasons, but on the nutrition centre people can see that our grilled chicken includes seasoning and other ingredients, just like at home.”
According to a TDEC official (Deputy Director) I spoke to once, most of their “beef” products are actually PORK dyed and flavored, at least at the facility in Tennessee that she visited.
She said they supplied Subway…according to Subway’s directions.
What percentage of the chicken sandwich is spittle and deep loogies from the employees?
In many cases, almost everything is 50% BS.
“Exempt income” and “Income that is not” are codified into law, and it says most Americans owe no income tax, yet half the sheeple still pay it.
WHAT IS TAXED d ot c om
I’m missing my cat.
The rest is underaged girls. How’s things in prison, Jared?
The other 50% is Soylent Green AKA people!
All it takes is one look at their “chicken” to know that it’s squirted out of a tube.
The CBC is Canada’s premier fake news network.
I guess you get your news from idiotrepublicanvoternews.com
Hmmmmm…… Someone is after Subway…..!!!!
Somebody needs to check to see if George Soros short sold his Subway stock.
According to numerous people I know, haveing a large percentage of soy would make the product healthier and more desirable than 100% chicken. Especially if it tastes like chicken. Wel,l off to have the Tofurky Burger at that new place, The Brussell Sprout.
Too much soy is bad for you. It is known to decrease testosterone in males and estrogen in females. It makes each sex undesirable to each other and is known too cause body odor.
Considering the minuscule amount of meat on any Subway sandwich what difference does the percentage make most of what you get are bread and filler.
i’m surprised it’s tht high.
Sounds like they swabbed the meat and tested that, as oppose to actually testing the meat.
You get what you pay for! Discount pricing, discount products. Pour franchisees. how do they make a buck?
I recently ate some rattlesnake meat, it tasted like chicken.
I recently ate some chicken, it tasted like rattlesnake meat.
At this point, what difference does it make?
Much of the deli meats we buy, turkey, ham, chicken are injected with salt water, saline. Adds weight and most people don’t know what real deli meats should taste like.
I suppose if the other half is soy, its far better than to find out its rat filler.
I quit eating at Subway 40 years ago when the meat started tasting like plastic.
A former employee told us never buy anything chicken from Subway.
just remember, whatever you THINK you know, you are probably wrong
All commercially processed food is injected with additives to add weight but a 50% injection of soy or other additives is more than most people can stomach. You are what you eat and you get what you pay for. Cheap food is cheap for a reason. Most burgers contain 10% soy and the government allows then to be labeled as 100% beef.
McDonalds and other burger places, the burgers are 13% beef
It’s only fitting that my Subway chicken sandwich is made mostly of soy (the most Genetically Modified Organism product on the market) as it goes along nicely with Subways rubber yoga mat bread.
Now that they’re busted, Subway will “check back with their supplier”. That’s so convenient an excuse. “We knew our chicken was half soy, but now that we’ve been exposed, we’ll use the excuse that it’s our suppliers fault.” HAHAHA!
Men, if you are growing breasts unintentionally, cut back on soy.
Soy has an estrogen effect on the body. Soy is in so many things.