Chicken: Chicken Containing up to 43% of a Solution of: Water, Seasoning (Soy Protein Concentrate, Salt, Rice Starch, Carrageenan, Dextrose, Onion Powder, Dehydrated Chicken Broth, Maltodextrin, Spice Extractives), Sodium Phosphate.
The real secret ingredient
So the bulk of the flavor in the chicken – as in many of the foods sold at KFC – actually comes from additives such as natural flavoring and MSG. MSG is a synthetic chemical designed to trigger the glutamate taste receptors on the tongue, which give food a richer, more savory taste.
KFC: Unhealthiest
The unhealthiest individual menu item, however, is the chicken pot pie, which contains 790 calories, 46 grams of fat, 37 grams of saturated fat, 95 milligrams of cholesterol, and 2,120 milligrams of sodium.
3 Cheese Blend Part skim pizza mozzarella and cheddar cheeses (pasteurized milk, modified milk ingredients, bacterial culture, salt, colour, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme), process cheese food (Monterey Jack cheese [milk, salt, bacterial culture, calcium chloride, microbial enzyme], modified milk ingredients, ...
Breaded With: Wheat Flour, Salt, Spices, Monosodium Glutamate, Corn Starch, Leavening (Sodium Bicarbonate), Garlic Powder, Natural Flavorings, Citric Acid, Maltodextrin, Sugar, Corn Syrup Solids, with not more than 2% Calcium Silicate added as Anticaking Agent.
A closer look at the packet shows the main ingredient in the famous seasoning is Monosodium Glutamate - also known as MSG - followed by “Herbs and Spices, Salt and Garlic Powder”. MSG is a controversial food additive that is generally regarded as being safe for consumption.
KFC swears by high-temperature, industrial-strength pressure fryers for their extra-crispy skin. While you won't be able to deep fry with your at-home pressure cooker, you can still recreate the KFC crunch with a deep fryer, a Dutch oven, or a heavy-bottomed pot.
Mashed Potatoes: Potato (Dry), Salt, Maltodextrin, Contains 2% Or Less Of Whey Product (Whey, Calcium Caseinate, Calcium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate), Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Soybean, Cottonseed), Vegetable Mono and Diglycerides, Spice, Artificial Color, Natural and Artificial Flavor, Calcium Stearoyl-2- ...
While chicken is an obvious Men's Health staple, KFC's reliance on greasy oils and subsequent sky-high calorific content makes Maccy's an unlikely victor. The more varied menu and healthy options, as well as classic, gut-busting fare, make it the ideal spot to play fast and loose with your nutrition plan.
Colonel's Crispy Strips® Chicken breast strips; water, salt, modified corn starch, soy protein isolate, monosodium glutamate, sodium phosphate, garlic powder, spices, onion powder.
Today, KFC announced that it fulfilled its April 2017 pledge to end the use of medically important antibiotics in its entire U.S. chicken supply. This is very welcome news for its customers and all of us who will rely on these miracle drugs to make us healthy at some point in our lives.
Beyond Fried Chicken is made mostly of soy and wheat proteins. It is also coated with similar breading to KFC's popcorn nuggets. The KFC website lists the ingredients of Beyond Fried Chicken, including water, enriched wheat flour, soy protein isolate, canola oil, wheat gluten, natural flavorings, and yeast extract.
Sides. Heads Up! The Biscuits, Cornbread Muffin, Mashed Potatoes, and Gravy at KFC do all contain milk.
Mashed Potato With Gravy: Potatoes, Whey Product (Containing: Whey Solids, Nonfat Milk, Sodium Caseinate, Calcium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate), Salt, mono and Diglycerides, Calcium Stearoyl-2-Lactylate, Sodium Bisulfate, natural Flavors, Natural Colors, Citric Acid, and Spice.
Skip the gravy and the plain mashed potatoes contain 110 calories, 3.5 grams of fat (0.5 grams of which is saturated), and 330 milligrams of sodium. Either way, the sodium is clearly the biggest red flag; you'll be getting around 14 to 22% of your daily recommended intake from this single side alone.
"Some of our food does contain MSG but rest assured, it's only present at levels that are safe for the general population," the fried chicken chain says on its website. "It's a recognised flavour enhancer that also occurs naturally in foods such as meat, fish, milk, vegetables, fruits and cheese."
McDonald's doesn't use MSG in its food that is on the national menu, and there are no updates from the company yet on whether the Crispy Chicken Sandwiches will be added to the menu permanently.
In many countries MSG goes by the name “China salt”. Beside its flavour enhancing effects, MSG has been associated with various forms of toxicity (Figure 1(Fig. 1)). MSG has been linked with obesity, metabolic disorders, Chinese Restaurant Syndrome, neurotoxic effects and detrimental effects on the reproductive organs.
From farm to finger, Australia's Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurants, switched in 2012 from imported sustainable palm oil to 100 per cent Australian-grown high oleic canola oil, to cook their legendary 'finger licking' golden fried chicken and chips.
First, the fillets, which apparently come out the refrigerator fresh, are dunked in a bucket of cold water. "We dip it in there because it just helps the flour adhere to the chicken," Lawson explains. Then the fillets are covered in the breading mix, and then loaded onto a rack that is lowered into a vat of hot oil.
Eating KFC Regularly Makes You fat
The dishes of KFC are mostly deep-fried and are made using tons of oil. So, the regular consumption of KFC can make you gain weight. Therefore, continuous consumption of fast food, chicken, and meat that too with excess oil can lead to heart and fat-related issues.