Nugget number one was about 50 percent muscle tissue such as from the breast or thigh, which is what most people think of when they think of chicken meat. The rest of it was made from fat, blood ...

Stand-up comedians have long joked that some things, like the actual components of chicken nuggets, are better left mysterious. Recently, Mississippi researchers found out why: two nuggets they ...

Broiler chicken muscle myopathies, including conditions such as white striping and wooden breast, have emerged as significant challenges for the global poultry industry. Intensified genetic selection ...