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'Enhanced meat' means your steak gets watery injection
[West Final Edition]
Chicago Tribune - Chicago, Ill.
Author: Marion Burros, New York Times News Service
Date: Aug 16, 2006
Start Page: 7
Section: Good Eating
Text Word Count: 758
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In six of seven supermarkets I visited in New York, Washington and Newport, Vt., enhanced meat cost as much as untreated meat, or more. Packages of treated and untreated Shady Brook Farms skinless and boneless turkey meat were $4.99 a pound at each of two stores in Washington. The label of the enhanced product said that it contained a "10 percent solution of turkey broth, salt, and sugar" and that it had 25 grams of protein in a four-ounce serving. The untreated meat had 28 grams of protein per serving. So the actual meat in the treated turkey cost about 12 percent more a pound.

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