Where's the chicken? A great study of sandwiches that are sold in Canada

Today the topic of healthy eating, natural products and, accordingly, healthy snacks is gaining in popularity. Many leading fast-food chains could not stand aside and began to adjust to the new trend. Recently, burgers and rolls have been advertised with brightly colored letters that read "100% natural. But do such loud headlines reflect the actual composition of the fast food that millions of people around the world eat?

A Canadian TV station decided to look into the matter by testing chicken sandwiches and rolls from popular fast-food chains like Subway, McDonalds, Tim Hortons, Wendy's and A&W.

Experts analyzed the DNA in each of the samples to find out the real composition of the chicken.

In addition, a "blind test" of the taste of the grilled burger chicken was conducted among the 4 invited subjects. For the purity of the experiment, a chef was also invited to grill the chicken breast. It became one of the samples of the experiment.

The study report said that unlike its competitors, whose meat was made almost entirely of chicken, the meat in Subway's chicken sandwiches consisted of only 50 percent meat. The remaining half was made up of soy filler. Participants in the experiment also rated the chicken from this chain as the worst and remotely resembling natural meat.

For this, the Subway fast-food chain sued the CBC for defamation, claiming that the information in the report was false and that its airing and publication caused Subway to suffer commercial losses and damage to its reputation. Subway also sued Trent University for both negligence and defamation. The Trent lab conducted independent testing on the chicken contents, which formed the basis of the report.

However, the fast food chain's claim was dismissed. And the Ontario Superior Court recently ordered Subway to pay the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) about $765,000 CAD in costs.