CHEM 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Chicken Nugget, Silly Putty, Dough Conditioner
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Cooked in oil that contains tbhq (tertiary butylhydroquinone) Tbhq is added to the oil because it is an antioxidant that helps prevent oils in the product from oxidizing and tasting rancid. When you cook nuggets in this, apparently some tbhq gets in the nugget. This is a toxic substance at a certain dose. But a maximally-preserved batch of nuggets would require eating 313 nuggets to approach the toxic dose of 1 gram. Claims there is another problem with chicken nuggets. People claim that silly putty is put into chicken nuggets. But even if it was, silly putty is safe to eat. So, this is not a problem in chicken nuggets. Told people that sundaes contained beaver glands, shellac, and human hair. This was his way of trying to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables. The same thing is sold as a tablet as a gas-relieving supplement. However, they do contain a lot of fat and salt.
