In 2013, after conducting his own “autopsy” into chicken nuggets from two unnamed fast food restaurants, Dr. Richard deShazo said that finger food is actually made with only 40 to 50 percent meat. The rest? It’s all fat, skin, connective tissue, blood vessels, nerves, and bone fragments.⁠ ⁠ “I was floored. I had read what other reports said in them, and I didn’t believe it. I was astonished, actually seeing it under a microscope,” deShazo, medicine and pediatrics professor at the University of Mississippi, said.⁠ “What has happened is that some companies have chosen to use an artificial mixture of chicken parts rather than low-fat chicken white meat, batter it up and fry it, and still call it chicken,” he said in a statement.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #chickennuggets #nugget #chickennugget #chickenfingers #chicken #meat #science #biology