It doesn't taste like chicken? If you're at a Subway sandwich shop in Canada, that could be because only half the oven-roasted patty is made with real chicken, a DNA test shows. The rest is mainly soy. But if you opt for McDonald's instead, be aware that the "kale salad" has more calories and fat than a Double Big Mac.
From CBC News:
Ben Bohrer, a food scientist at the University of Guelph, doesn't know exactly how the chicken products Marketplace tested are made, but he's very familiar with what the fast food industry calls "restructured products." Restructured products are essentially smaller pieces of meat or ground meat, bound together with other ingredients to make them last longer, taste better and, as Bohrer puts it, "add value" — restaurant speak for cheaper.
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