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Sugar with your chicken, sir?

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Yesterday in the most random manner, waiting for the lady before me to choose her yoghurts, so that I could pick up mine, I encountered this in Lidl.

I hadn't gone in for chicken, and didn't buy any chicken, but couldn't believe my eyes nonethless.

I appreciate it isn't much sugar, but why is there any at all, and of course between that and the other "ingredients" of this item, it reduces the chicken content to 82%

Caveat Emptor



The cost per kilo of this option is less than the fresh option, although much less if I take 82% of the fresh option's price per kilo, thus evening up the playing field.
 
Like salt, sugar enhanses taste, and it's cheap. Plus it's addictive, which we all pretty much know here.

Still. It's chicken. It doesn't need more than maybe some seasoning and mayo. *shrug*
 

Email the company and ask why on earth there needs to be sugar in the chicken !!
 
Robinredbreast said:
Email the company and ask why on earth there needs to be sugar in the chicken !!
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I tweeted them, but they responded by telling me their customer services would be best to respond.
 
I think its a cheap filler. When my parents worked in a chinese takeaway, they always bought 80% chicken and the rest was preservatives and fillers, quite salty too. 100% chicken breast is more expensive.
 
My understanding is that the chicken is soaked in solution of water, sugar, salt (and other stuff like preservative) before being packaged.
The liquid is absorbed by the meat, and gives it a plumper glossier appearance, as well as a longer shelf life.
It also makes it heavier.
So more money is charged.
Then, while cooking, the extra liquid is released giving the white scummy liquid that appears in the pan when cooking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumping

This is an old article, but apparently it is still relevant:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/06/supermarket-frozen-chicken-breasts-water

Yet another reason why I don't understand the claim that poultry is 'healthier' than red meat.
 
I like my chicken barbequed and smothered in hot sauce, otherwise I'll take a steak medium rare. I can never understand why a cooked hot chicken at the supermarket costs less than an uncooked one...
 
enb54 said:
I like my chicken barbequed and smothered in hot sauce, otherwise I'll take a steak medium rare. I can never understand why a cooked hot chicken at the supermarket costs less than an uncooked one...
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Its not cheaper at my supermarkets. Not when kilo price is worked out.
 
Brining is often recommended as an aid to keeping chicken moist when roasting and most brining solutions contain sugar. I have tried it but didn't like the resulting texture.
 
Crazy not what u would expect to find on or in chicken .
 
This is how a lie can be made true. Add the very thing some of us say is a slow poison to an already compromised food, and then say look at these tests, chicken has all these bad things. "We" have in my view a collective responsibility to try to rid society of this trash.
 
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