How McDonald's chicken nuggets are made

McDonald's is testing a new recipe for its Chicken McNuggets.

The recipe strips the nuggets of artificial preservatives and contains more recognizable ingredients like lemon-juice solids and rice starch.

The chain is changing the nuggets so "parents can feel good" about feeding them to their kids, McDonald's spokeswoman Becca Hary said.

"More than ever, customers care about where their food comes from and how it is prepared," she said.

The recipe may be changing, but the preparation and cooking process for the nuggets will stay the same.

McDonald's Canada made a video depicting this process from inside a Cargill factory that makes and freezes the nuggets before sending them to McDonald's restaurants for consumption.

Here's how the nuggets are made, according to the video:

Here's a photo of so-called pink goop that often gets associated with McNuggets. "We don't know what it is or where it came from, but it has nothing to do with our Chicken McNuggets," says Nicoletta Stefou, the supply-chain manager at McDonald's Canada.

The process of making McNuggets starts in the "deboning department" with whole chickens.

"First, we separate all of the chicken cuts and set aside the chicken breast meat for the Chicken McNuggets," says Jen Rabideau, a product-development scientist for Cargill.