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What’s in your fast food chicken sandwich? Seaweed, wood and more

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What’s in your fast food chicken sandwich? Seaweed, wood and more

You may want to think twice before ordering chicken from a fast food restaurant. Some popular establishments are beefing up their chicken products with ingredients like seaweed and even wood, according to a new investigation from The Daily Mail. The oven-roasted chicken from Subway contains flavorings and “2% or less” of potato starch and carrageenan … Read more

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida

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A 5,000-mile seaweed belt is headed toward Florida

A 5,000-mile seaweed belt lurking in the Atlantic Ocean is expected in the next few months to wash onto beaches in the Caribbean Sea, South Florida, and the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt — as the biomass stretching from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico is called — contains scattered … Read more