look what I found.... most dog food is 55% Meat Burgers Much Less Study Shows Fast Food Burgers Can Contain As Little As 2 % Actual Meat August 3, 2013 by Arjun Walia fast foodA study recently published in the journal Annals of Diagnostic Pathology determined that some fast food hamburgers may contain as little as 2 % actual meat(1). If that’s the case, what makes up the rest of it? The purpose of the study was to assess the content of 8 fast food hamburger brands using histologic methods. Americans consume about 5 billion hamburgers a year, and most of the people eating them assume that they are comprised primarily of meat. Researchers also found the need to search for brain tissue, fortunately they didn’t find any. Truth is, meat content within fast food hamburgers is very low. Here is a breakdown of what you might find in a fast food hamburger, according to the study: Water content by weight ranged from 37.7 to 62.4 percent, an average of 49 percent Meat content in the hamburgers ranged from 2.1 percent to 14.8 percent, an average of 12.1 percent Electron microscopy revealed the existence of preserved skeletal muscle Connective tissues Blood vessels Peripheral nerves Adipose Tissue Plant material Cartilage Bone
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 23:39:13 +0000
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