If you’ve got a weak stomach, then heed this warning: this article contains ‘meat glue’.

Are you feeling fancy because you’re heading out for a swanky steak supper?

Then you might want to check that hunk of flesh’s credentials as many restaurants are forming steaks using lower quality cuts of meat stuck together with meat glue.


Yep. Meat glue is a thing. Ew.

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Transglutaminase – known to people in the food industry as meat glue (again, ew) – is pretty easy to come by.



YouTuber Ballistic BBQ reveals while imaginative chefs use the substance to create inventive new products, some eateries are using it to stick together cheap meat and then passing off the

Frankensteaks off as quality cuts. Not cool, guys.

Ballistic BBQ released a video of the ‘formed steak’ process online in the form of these stomach-churning gifs, which may inspire you to skip lunch.

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