You hear it all the time, "Avoid processed food", but what is processed food? Any food that has been changed from its original, natural state is processed food. When you make apple cider out of apples that is a processed food. When you create a food from chemicals with some natural flavorings you have created a processed food. There is a whole spectrum of processed food from the benign to the downright disgusting. The food industry would love to keep the processing a mystery, but that's getting harder to do these days. Like chicken nuggets? This is a chicken nugget before they make it look like chicken again.
Recently the process of making chicken nuggets went viral on Youtube and Facebook. Fast food and frozen chicken nuggets are made from mechanically separated chicken. This process puts a whole chicken in a grinder, blood, guts everything. The blood makes it this strange pepto bismol color so it is dyed to look like chicken. The resulting goop is crawling with bacteria so it is "treated" with ammonia. Don't worry the FDA said its okay to eat ammonium hydroxide in 1974. Oh and since it tastes disgusting chicken flavor is added back in. Yummy...
