Chicken nugget
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A chicken nugget is a piece of chicken, either whole or composed from a paste of finely minced meat or chicken skin, which is then coated in batter or breadcrumbs before being cooked. Fast-food restaurants typically deep-fry their nuggets in oil. Most McDonalds in Australia now cook their nuggets in canola oil, due to the fact that the obesity rate in Australia is rising. Oven baking is the usual method of preparation at home, although many home cooks use a deep-fryer in order to replicate more closely the style of restaurant-cooked nuggets, such as McDonald's Chicken McNuggets.
Chicken nuggets are often made using a high proportion of chicken skin. This is because without the skin the consistency would not be sticky enough for the nuggets to hold together. Food labelling law dictates that skin used to make the nugget need not be distinguished from the muscle tissue consumers normally think of when they hear the word "meat". The remainder of the nugget is most likely to be made up of mechanically recovered meat, with some processing additives such as anti-foaming agents (usually polydimethylsiloxane). The meat of the nugget may also be comprised of a reconstituted meat slurry.
Owing to the preparation methods of chicken nuggets, chickens raised to be consumed as nuggets may not be as well-treated as poultry meant for other forms of consumption. That is why organizations such as PETA typically oppose the consumption of chicken nuggets.
Jamie Oliver recently organised a large campaign against 'junk foods', targeting especially the ingredients of chicken nuggets as a shock tactic to persuade children from eating 'junk'.
Some children who don't like chicken like these and claim that they are artificial chicken, however they are made with completely real chicken.