Researcher turns dark chicken meat into white

31/08/05 Daniel Fletcher has found a way to transform dark meat chicken into white, a scientific advance some purists say has gone too far.

Fletcher, a University of Georgia poultry science professor, said his white meat isn't designed to compete with real thing on restaurant menus or grocery shelves. Instead, it's a filler that can be used to add protein and amino acids to something else, such as chicken nuggets.

The recipe involves adding excess water to ground-up dark meat to create a kind of meat soup, then spinning the mixture around in a tub at high speed. The centrifugal force makes the mixture settle into layers of fat, water, and extracted meat, which can be molded into breast-like patties of all-white meat.