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What is “pink slime?” “Pink slime” is a colloquial term for Lean Finely Textured Beef (LFTB). LFTB refers to smaller pieces of lean meat that are added to ground beef to produce a leaner product utilizing as much of meat from an animal as possible.Jun 5, 2017
“Pink slime” refers to processed lean beef trimmings, and is a cheap filler used to “beef up” many meat products. It is made by salvaging the meat that gets trimmed off cuts of beef along with fat.
Pink slime (also known as lean finely textured beef or LFTB, finely textured beef, or boneless lean beef trimmings or BLBT) is a meat by-product used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to reduce the overall fat content of ground beef.
Pink Slime is injected with ammonium hydroxide gas.
But, hello, weren’t you paying attention in health class? Ammonia is produced in the body as a waste product, and though we can handle digesting it, ingesting substances like this into your body is not healthy.
Pink slime is a meat byproduct that became legal to sell in America in 2001. It is made by heating beef trimmings, running them through a centrifuge, and exposing them to ammonia gas. … Once used only in pet food and cooking oil, pink slime is banned for human consumption in the European Union and Canada.
Answer: Yes, a cooked burger that’s pink on the inside can be safe to eat — but only if the meat’s internal temperature has reached 160°F throughout. As the U.S. Department of Agriculture points out, it’s not at all unusual for hamburgers to remain pink inside after they’ve been safely cooked.
Batavia-based Aldi Inc, in response to growing customer concerns, announced that it will no longer purchase ground beef made with lean finely textured beef — commonly known as “pink slime” — although the U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved it as safe and wholesome beef.
McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets® are made with 100% white meat chicken and no artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. The chicken, which is cut from the tenderloin, breast and rib, gets mixed with a marinade for flavor and to help the Chicken McNuggets® keep their fun shapes.
That fact has led people to throw out all sorts of crazy suggestions about what it actually was made of. One of the suggestions that gained the most traction was that the meat was from kangaroos. Nope—it is in fact pork.
The packaging lists the Whopper ingredients as “100% flame-grilled beef, tomatoes, lettuce, mayo, ketchup, pickles, onions and a sesame seed bun,” and also says the burger doesn’t have any artificial ingredients, monosodium glutamate (MSG) or high-fructose corn syrup.
Beef is in most cases safe to eat raw, as long as you sear the surface of the meat. This is because, on whole cuts of beef, bacterial contamination (such as E. coli) is usually only present on the outside.
The inside of the beef is minimally cooked, in “rare” cases, with only the outside getting a char. Raw beef contains pathogens on its surface, but many parasites do not penetrate the dense meat. So once the outside is cooked, a rare steak perfectly safe to eat, at least in most cases.
This rumor has been around for decades — that McDonald’s puts “worm filler” in the hamburgers as a way to save money.
Have you ever noticed your pet bowls having a pink color on them? This is called Serratia marcescens. This bacteria can also be found in other areas around the house. This bacteria can cause illness in pets with compromised immune systems.
Toilets often develop a pink or slightly orange ring around the bowl right at the waterline, especially if the toilet is rarely used. It probably isn’t rust or a mineral. The bad news is that slimy, anaerobic bacteria called Serratia Marcescens cause this ring.
What is the pink residue in my cat water bowl? The pink residue in the cat water bowl is possibly due to Serratia marcescens bacteria. It is also found in toilet bowls and showers. The pink bacteria will grow in any moist location where fatty substances accumulate.
Aldi said tests on random samples demonstrated that the withdrawn products contained between 30% and 100% horse meat. “This is completely unacceptable and like other affected companies, we feel angry and let down by our supplier. If the label says beef, our customers expect it to be beef.”