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1. where do you get your chicken nuggets from can you buy them anywhere?
Thank you for your question. The only meat used in McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets is carefully deboned chicken breast. Once this fresh meat arrives at the supplier, it is turned into frozen, packaged McNuggets within 24 hours. The meat is checked when it first arrives. If it passes the required checks, it is used by the supplier for making the Chicken McNuggets. The breast meat is blended with other ingredients - water, potato starch, rapeseed oil, natural chicken stock and salt. The blended meat is then put into the shaping machine. This is where it is made into Chicken McNuggets. Now they're ready for the next stage - the cooking. The Chicken McNuggets are lightly and evenly dusted in flour. They are fully cooked before being covered in breadcrumbs and finally battered (the batter is freshly made on the premises and is stringently checked before being used). Each batch is thoroughly checked again before the Chicken McNuggets are fried in vegetable oil. After flash freezing, batches of 50 Chicken McNuggets are then placed into plastic bags and sealed. The bags are put into boxes. The boxes are weighed twice, tested and tested again before being loaded onto pallets for delivery to a distribution centre. From there, they're dispatched to McDonald's restaurants where you can purchase them.

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2. hello, how many chickens are killed a year in the uk to make chicken nuggets???
Thank you for your question. To give a rough estimate, McDonald's UK use breast meat from the equivalent to 27 million birds for all of its chicken products. McDonald’s only use high quality chicken breast meat in Chicken McNuggets, with none of the dark meat (such as the thighs, drumstick and skin) used. This means that from every chicken, only the best parts will be used in Chicken McNuggets. Additionally Chicken McNuggets will probably be made from the meat from more than one animal, in a similar way to how a carton of orange juice contains more than one orange. If you want to take a look at how Chicken McNuggets are made, you can follow the journey of the Quality Scouts on this site. They're ordinary members of the public who visit various parts of McDonald's operations and suppliers. Just click on the ‘Quality Link’ link on this site to find out more.

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3. how many chicken mcnuggets would one slaughterd chicken make?
Firstly apologies for the delay in answering your question, the team has been very busy with all the questions that are pouring in and everybody is working hard to answer them all. McDonald's expects to make approximately 50 chicken nuggets from every chicken, however, it is difficult to give a precise figure as McDonald’s only use high quality chicken breast meat in Chicken McNuggets, with none of the dark meat (such as the thighs, drumstick and skin) used. This means that from every chicken, only the best parts will be used in Chicken McNuggets. Additionally Chicken McNuggets will probably be made from the meat from more than one animal, in a similar way to how a carton of orange juice contains more than one orange. If you want to take a look at how Chicken McNuggets are made, you can follow the journey of the Quality Scouts on this site. They're ordinary members of the public who visit various parts of McDonald's operations and suppliers. Just click on the ‘Quality Link’ link on this site to find out more. (Dec 08)

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