John Westfield

I'm a lifelong cooking enthusiast with a special love for strange and underused ingredients. I hope this blog helps open your mind to more of the wonderful edible treasures around us.

How chicken mcnuggets are made?

, mc Donald’s is pretty forthcoming with the current ingredient list of their famous chicken Mc. Nuggets – it’s listed right there on their website: “Ingredients: White Boneless Chicken, Water, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), Enriched Flour (Bleached Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Bleached …

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Where do chickens originate?

What made this particular paper different were a few things: Sample size. They tested far more birds than previous studies. The mt. DNA sequencing. Previous studies used only one part of the mt. DNA (the “Control Region”) while this study sequenced the entire mt. DNA., and geographic spread. They tested chickens and red junglefowl from …

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Should chickens be housed together?

Chickens are fairly easy birds to raise–they’re small and manageable, while ducks are easy, too–they’re hardy and lay eggs year-round, so housing them together is possible. It just takes a little work and adequate space. Follow these simple tips for keeping chickens and ducks together from Blain’s Farm & Fleet. Chickens are entirely different, and …

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