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You should look into the ingredients for those rotisserie chickens. Not something I would consider as part of a healthy diet.
by orev 8y ago
You should look into the ingredients for those rotisserie chickens. Not something I would consider as part of a healthy diet.
- epistasis 8y agoI've done a search, and don't find anything objectionable in rotisserie chicken. Can you be more specific?
- madaxe_again 8y agoThey quite often pump them up with saline to make them plumper, at the very least - so they can be pretty high in salt. Apart from that, I’m not sure what’s terribly bad about them.
- crispyambulance 8y agoI looked into it. Those rotisserie chickens you get at the supermarket... they're made from chicken!
- orev 8y agoIn addition to being loaded with salt (despite the current trend of handwaving salt issues away, salt is a problem), they are often tenderized beyond recognition, have added preservatives, flavor enhancers, fat, and sugar. You might be OK with those things but it is absolutely not the same thing as a regular chicken you buy and cook yourself -- THOSE are the ones that contain just chicken.
- pkaye 8y agoThe chicken you buy in the store is likely plumped up with a salt water solution.
- orev 8y agoAnd they are labeled on the package that way and you can choose to buy ones that aren’t.
- krageon 8y agoThere is absolutely nothing wrong with flavour enhancers. As for the other things, you are varying degrees of correct (for example, it is easy to eat too much salt but not if what you eat in a day is made by you otherwise). The sugar is obviously not ideal if you're going for low carb, but thankfully you can check this by reading the ingredients list and nutritional info. There are no mysterious things going on here.
- crispyambulance 8y agoHow the chicken is processed depends on the supermarket. At many places you can just ask them what they do and they’ll be glad to tell you. That said, brining chicken prior to roasting is very common. I do it myself and it is almost essential for free range chicken which tends to have more blood near the bones, brining helps mitigate that. The other stuff is more or less just spice rubs. YMMV, depending on your supermarket. Roast chicken tends to go fast so I would be surprised if they need to use preservatives.
- zyngaro 8y agoThat really made me laugh out loud ! Thanks !