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Dextrose In Your Chicken?

Alexandra100

Alexandra100

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From an article in "the Guardian":
"The cheap ranges of frozen chicken on sale in the UK do declare the added water, as well as additives such as phosphates incorporated to stop the water from flooding out during cooking and dextrose, a sugar added to mask the saltiness of the raw material."
You can read the article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/supermarket-frozen-chicken-breasts-water
It says that Asda, Aldi and Iceland all sell frozen chicken that has been "plumped" with water. Personally, what worries me is not so much the water as the dextrose. The free range chicken legs I buy from Morrisons claim 0 carbs on the label. However, today I was too rushed to cook, so I ate a lot of cold chicken I had prepared yesterday. I probably ate fewer carbs than usual, but tonight my bg readings are higher than usual, and I am now wondering if this is due to eating all that chicken.
 
Thanks for this. I normally don't buy frozen chicken, but it makes you wonder what other foods could be affected.

Next time I am in Asda I will look at the labels on their frozen chicken , just out of interest.
 
Alexandra100 said:
From an article in "the Guardian":
"The cheap ranges of frozen chicken on sale in the UK do declare the added water, as well as additives such as phosphates incorporated to stop the water from flooding out during cooking and dextrose, a sugar added to mask the saltiness of the raw material."
You can read the article here:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/supermarket-frozen-chicken-breasts-water
It says that Asda, Aldi and Iceland all sell frozen chicken that has been "plumped" with water. Personally, what worries me is not so much the water as the dextrose. The free range chicken legs I buy from Morrisons claim 0 carbs on the label. However, today I was too rushed to cook, so I ate a lot of cold chicken I had prepared yesterday. I probably ate fewer carbs than usual, but tonight my bg readings are higher than usual, and I am now wondering if this is due to eating all that chicken.
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Disgusting, but we shouldn't be surprised after other scandals. FSA needs to be on top of this.
 
If you ate more protein than usual the higher bloods might be due to that rather than additives.
 
JohnEGreen said:
According to their site Tesco's Butchers Choice Chicken Breast Fillets have 0.17 grams per 100 grams not a lot But I would prefer my meat with out any at all.
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That is 1.7g per kg. It should not make any impact on bg even if you take one kg in one go.
 
millenium said:
That is 1.7g per kg. It should not make any impact on bg even if you take one kg in one go
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My Grandson eats that in one day easily. He is zero carb so would be most dis chuffed.

At times a kilo of meat in one meal

today 500 grams of beef mice, and eight eggs one meal then a portion of the 500 grams of beef mince I cooked this evening he has just polished of two serloin steaks.

When we have chicken it's in the same amounts for him.he is a monster.

All keto no carbs.
 
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JohnEGreen said:
My Grandson eats that in one day easily. He is zero carb so would be most dis chuffed.

At times a kilo of meat in one meal

today 500 grams of beef mice, and eight eggs one meal then a portion of the 500 grams of beef mince I cooked this evening he has just polished of two serloin steaks.

When we have chicken it's in the same amounts for him.he is a monster.

All keto no carbs.
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That is an awesome carnivorous.

For younger person should be ok. But older people, it may place some stress on their kidneys to eat that much protein.
 
Hi @Alexandra100

Dextrose in meat isn’t ideal, but if you were too rushed to cook, the I would suspect the stress hormones for your spike.

Was it a short short spike? Or a long slow hillock? Protein gives me hillocks and stress hormones give me bumpy spikes. :D
 
JohnEGreen said:
According to their site Tesco's Butchers Choice Chicken Breast Fillets have 0.17 grams per 100 grams not a lot But I would prefer my meat with out any at all.
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I am glad to see that the Morissons free range chicken declares no dextrose and zero carbs per 100g https://groceries.morrisons.com/web...+thighs&parentContainer=SEARCHfree+range+drum
However their Savers Frozen chicken fillets admit to 0.5g carbs per 100g.
https://groceries.morrisons.com/web...+chicken&parentContainer=SEARCHfrozen+chicken
 
Brunneria said:
Hi @Alexandra100

Dextrose in meat isn’t ideal, but if you were too rushed to cook, the I would suspect the stress hormones for your spike.

Was it a short short spike? Or a long slow hillock? Protein gives me hillocks and stress hormones give me bumpy spikes. :D
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I am usually too rushed to cook. That is simply a fact about my relationship with time in my life, nothing unusual for me. In this case, as I did have some pre-cooked chicken in the fridge I was not particularly stressed. I can't answer your detailed questions about my raised bg as I am not yet using a Libre.
 
dbr10 said:
Disgusting, but we shouldn't be surprised after other scandals. FSA needs to be on top of this.
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Yes, if you read the full article, there is also a concern about non-chicken proteins eg perhaps horse being introduced into chicken meat, and this is being investigated.
 
Alexandra100 said:
Yes, if you read the full article, there is also a concern about non-chicken proteins eg perhaps horse being introduced into chicken meat, and this is being investigated.
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Yes. Call me old fashioned, but I think we'd all prefer for our meat to contain, oh I don't know, maybe just meat!
 
millenium said:
That is an awesome carnivorous.

For younger person should be ok. But older people, it may place some stress on their kidneys to eat that much protein.
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Body builder several hours in the gym most days I'm aghast at it my self at times he could easily bench press me if he so wished.

Edit to add natural body builder no drugs steroids or what have you.
 
The chicken meat nowadays has no taste. I usually cook them with chicken flavourings.
 
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