Additive Free Frozen Chicken

Always_Harassed

I was shocked to discover that a lot of frozen chicken breast fillets are only 82% chicken and have a host of additives like MSG and phospate deritivives. Does anyone know somewhere that sells chicken frozen that does not add chemicals.

Greatgimp

Tesco sell Buxted organic chicken breast fillets that are 97% chicken and 2.5% herb butter. Otherwise, check any organic or free range chicken packs or even local organic farm shops although you'll pay an arm and a leg for it! Much better though

lil_lady_2

iv read organic foods are not always msg free. how do you know if its in the product thou as for im sure they hide it?

MrsBartolozzi

Re frozen chicken I used to buy Tesco's healthy living breasts and they were 98% chicken 2% water (as a glaze). Lidl sells 1.3kg chicken breasts with a bit of bone on them for £3.99 (it's straightforward to remove the bone and there's no added stuff).
Aldi had a good deal 900g for £3-odd breasts with no additives. This was 20% extra free but I don't know whether it is still on.
I don't buy the other stuff with dextrose, salt and other addititves. What I do now though, is buy fresh whole chickens and roast, then use meat in currys/as a roast etc. You can also portion them up into legs, breasts etc.

As far as GM ingredients are concerned, by law ingredients making up less than 0.1% of a product don't need to be on the label. (the exact % might be less as I can't remember exactly) but essentially spices etc don't need to be mentioned individually because they form such a tiny proportion of the finished product so they could all be GM and we don't legally need to know :rolleyes:.

Edit: sorry I read your post as GM not MSG (doh!) I would suppose though that the same rule applies if the amount is small enough.


HTH MrsB.

lindadykes

MSG is not allowed in organic foods.

MrsBartolozzi

lindadykes wrote: »

MSG is not allowed in organic foods.

That's true, however:


The Soil Association kindly provided me with this excellent explanation of how MSG is banned from organic food by law, and yet is still present in organic food...

Yeast includes proteins which include the amino acid, L-glutamic acid, bound into the chains. This is present in almost all proteins including human ones, and in for example milk protein.
When proteins containing glutamic acid are hydrolysed, whether by acid, alkali or by natural breakdown (autolysis) of yeast some MSG is formed. MSG whether from yeast or other sources stimulates taste buds, having a specific savoury flavour. It is also a flavour enhancer.
Yeast and yeast extract are permitted as additives in organic foods, therefore there will be some MSG in organic foods which have added yeast, or yeast extract. Similarly MSG is naturally present in soy sauce and in some other ingredients.

From here.
So having yeast as an additive, may be a sneaky way of adding MSG.:rolleyes:

stephen77

Your get trace of MSG in bread products as by roduct with out the product being sneaky. we are talking small amounts of msg in the products. Adding yeast as addative is not a sneaky way to increase to increase msg levels. not enough of it present