Ingredients - Chicken (90%), Water, Salt, Sugar, Mineral Salts (451, 452, 450), Anti-caking Agent (341), Humectant (422).
Steggles Family Roast Chicken Whole $3.90/kg @ Woolworths
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Yeah & the price is also pumped up.
Makes it nice & juicy.
10% it seems.
A cup of water, salts, sugar, anti-caking agent, and humectant in every number 22 chook eh.
yeah id avoid because of this
why plussed
I always found that these taste a little funny, the above comment makes me now understand why!
LOL…those ingredients.
Cheap chicken, ill take it!
It rubs the humectant on its skin.
What the heck is Humectant (422)
Glycerol 422 is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid. For human consumption, it is classified as a sugar alcohol. It has three hydrophilic hydroxyl groups that are responsible for its solubility in water and its hygroscopic nature. Due to its hygroscopic properties, it helps to keep food moist and even extends shelf life of a product. It is also found in many lipids. It serves as a humectant, solvent and sweetener, and it may also help to preserve foods.
Why does a chicken need a anti caking agent
To stop it from caking up?
It's likely that the ingredients come as a commercially prepared powder and the anti caking agent is included to stop it clumping, not for any benefit to the chicken.
Salt firms the flesh making the breasts seem plump and satisfying to bite, sugar sweetens the flavour and promotes browning of the skin.
Those salts raise the pH to assist water retention and they preserve the colour of the meat which will otherwise become pale and unattractive in that much liquid.
The humectant 422 is glycerol. It's also a sweetener and it's hygroscopic, so it will assist with holding moisture… but it's just as likely that your chook was vaping, and possibly injecting some of those other ingredients to bulk up.
These Steggles Family Roast Chicken are pumped up so much with Brine.