CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Chicken Mcnuggets, Joseph Mercola, Silly Putty

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 181
• Professor: David Noble Harpp

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Oil has tbhq which ends up in the chicken. A form of butane (or lighter fluid) and ingesting amounts as little as one gram can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse. " Put in the oil to act as an antioxidant. Nothing to do with butane as a lighter fluid. A maximally-preserved batch of nuggets would require eating 313 nuggets to approach to toxic dose of 1 gram. Put in the oil because it prevents the oil from frothing up. But, there is a lot of fat and salt which is why you don"t want to eat them too often. Activity 1: out of context claims: one of the controversial ingredients added to chicken nuggets is tertiary. Butylhydroquinone (tbhq) which has been designated by some people as butane (lighter fluid) and is toxic at a 1 gram dosage.