What are off-the-shelf chicken burger patties made of?

taco_truck_tom

I bought some burder patties from the supermarket. The price is very cheap. However, they don't look or smell like chicken. Packaging says the following: Mechanically separated chicken meat (55.5%), water, chicken skins, wheat starch, onion, salt, soy protein, semolina ( wheat ), rapeseed oil, aromas, spice extracts, dextrose, thickener (carrageenan), spices ( mustard ), vegetable protein hydrolyzate ( soy ), flavor enhancer (monosodium...

Originally asked by user366312 on Stack Exchange (cooking) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

You can just google your first key ingredient, namely mechanically separated meat (wikipedia). It is an industrial process where chicken pieces (usually the carcasses left over after removing the large meat pieces like the breasts) are finely ground and then pressed through a sieve to separate the bones from the remainder. It is quite unlike what you would get if you just grind up a chicken breast but it is perfectly save to eat.

Full answer by quarague: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/a/126670 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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