• YaksPT@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    60 minutes

    I moved to Portugal last year and I can say that the supermarket chicken here does need a lot more seasoning (to my taste) than US chicken did. I am hoping it will help cut down my overall salt intake.

  • Griffus@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 hours

    In Norway, chicken without added salt and water has become the norm after producers were made to inform how much of each is added. Also, one of the triopol groceries here has wholly switched from Ross chickens, so that is a good trend for animal welfare.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    Great way to cheat the customer and also ruin recipes that don’t take into consideration that cups of salt water will come out while cooking the chicken.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    I’d definitely like to identify ones that have not been - these days it can be a challenge to sear chicken on the stovetop because of all the water.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    2 hours

    this is what got the wife and I to start gettin organic which dod not seem to get the injections. Normal chicken was so bad my wife started callin it frankenchicken. We have noticed they must have backed off a bit as we have gotten it once or twice on extreme loss leader sales and it was not quite as bad as we remember. Still the organic seems better and the cost is offset by actually getting meat instead of water.

  • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    They also do this to beef, pork, and a bunch of other meats in the US. The higher water content is part of the reason preservation methods don’t work as well.

    For instance, trying to make Jerry out of water injected beef means you have to dry out the added water in addition to what was in the meat to start with, and you can’t use the post drying weight to calculate if it is dry enough.

    Plus poking the holes to add the water is one more vector for bacteria…

  • altphoto@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1 hour

    Pre seasoned! LOL. I’m vegan, so who cares. Except man, that really sucks for the chicken. I assume they get plumped as soon as they’re dead. Such cruel faith.

    I cook Costco Chicken to my kids. I think we all gotta make our own decision as we transition into veganism. Potatoes, mushrooms, tofu, etc give textures that rival meat. There’s no real reason to continue eating meat except for not knowing what can nutritionally replace it. Since it contains key nutrients you must have a plan in place. I’m figuring it all out as I go and maybe my kids will follow. At least we should go back to a time where meats are for special days.

  • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
    8 hours

    Mandatory “in the US”.

    While this one is technically legal in the EU, it would require labeling the salty water as an ingredient if it changes the weight significantly.

    • zout@fedia.io
      5 hours

      I can assure you that meat in the Netherlands is also filled up with water. Pretty much all meat sold in the super markets will when cooked first release the water, causing the meat to boil for a bit before it is evaporated. They don’t have to mention it on the packaging if it’s below 5%, which means in reality it’s closer to 10%. Since the Netherlands exports a lot of meat, it’ll be all over at least Europe.

    • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      It’s labeled in the US. You’ll see language like “may contain up to N% x, y, z solution” etc.

      However that would require us to read

      • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
        7 hours

        Adding salty water to food is perfectly legal, as both salt and water are allowed ingredients for processed food. Lying about it is not.

  • LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    Yeah it’s just brining. 30% and 500mg is crazy though. My local supermarket (and I checked-also walmart) value pack of chicken is 2% and about 50mg sodium per serving, which is pretty negligible. And it does make the chicken jucier.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    8 hours

    I remember growing up seeing Foster Farms commercials saying they don’t do this. It was the main theme of nearly all their ads.

    When I was a teenager, I got a job at the local Foster Farms plant. My job was part of the process of injecting the chicken with saline. 😬

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    Well… Not really in Denmark. At least not salt water.

    Packaging on chicken often has it written on the from if there is any water inside, and if I’m not mistaken, it’s not allowed to exceed a certain percentage.

    There may be reasons why people might specifically want to buy chicken with water inside, so some supermarkets here sell both, one that has an statement on the amount of water inside, and another that will say “ikke tilsat vand”.

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 hours

      The turkeys I buy on sale in bulk when I can, 50 cents a pound, have 15% of a salt solution with some other salted bullshit some phosphate or I don’t know I’ve been meaning to look it up. Probably not great for you though knowing the US Food supply.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 hours

      not allowed to exceed a certain percentage

      America fired all the inspector-types, though, as conservative governments usually do on about day 1. So now consumers get to protect themselves the same way they ‘did their own’ epidemiological research in the last pandemic.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 hours

        This is been a thing since Reagan though, it gets worse under the Republican administrations but it does not get much better under the Democrats. We get more fucked every cycle.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
    5 hours

    This doesn’t happen with seitan. Which is cheaper, healthier, and has about double the protein.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5 hours

      I’ve had some damn good seitan, too.

      There’s a vegan Asian-styled restaurant near me that has awesome general tsao seitan, and also use the same protein for their sesame-, mango-, and orange- sauced variants.

      Another place near me has these barbeque seitan strips (appetizer) with house wasabi mustard.

      God I’m hungry now.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 hours

        I only recently discovered that roasted sesame is the best thing in the fucking world. If it’s not roasted right it’s nothing, and the roasted oil is meh.