It is time for us to be more conscious of our food intake - and if you love to eat chicken nuggets, you might want to take a little time to reconsider it.

A recent study titled "The Autopsy of Chicken Nuggets Reads 'Chicken Little,'" which was published online in the American Journal of Medicine, discovered that those chicken nuggets don't contain full of what we might think of as meat.

The scientists of the University of Mississippi Medical Center randomly selected two nuggets, which were "fixed in formalin, sectioned and stained for microscopic analysis," from two different national fast food chains in Jackson, Mississippi.

The first nugget was 50 percent muscle tissue from the breast or thigh and the rest of it was from fat, blood vessels and nerves, the cells that line the skin and internal organs of the chicken. The second nugget was 40 percent muscle. The rest of it was fat, cartilage and bone.

One of the scientists and the lead author, Dr. Richard deShazo, was shocked by the research,

"I was floored. I had read what other reports have said is in them and I didn't believe it. I was astonished actually seeing it under the microscope."

"What has happened is that some companies have chosen to use an artificial mixture of chicken parts rather than low-fat chicken white meat, batter it up and fry it, and still call it chicken. It is really a chicken by-product high in calories, salt, sugar and fat that is a very unhealthy choice. Even worse, it tastes great and kids love it and it is marketed to them," he expressed his concerns from the chicken exploration.