All of you trying desperately to hit 120 grams of protein every day, listen up! If your gains journey involves a mid-afternoon Chomps, the preferred brand of meat stick for the slicked-back-bun set, you may have to cut that out. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday that it’s recalling nearly 30,000 pounds of the Chomps jerky sticks due to possible metal contamination.
@nadsrod If you catch me in public I will 80% of the time have a @Chomps in my bag or hand. 😂😂 My target snack is 10g of clean protein!!! Protein bars could neverrrrr. #highproteinsnack #wholefoods #wellness #holistichealth #chomps
@julesvitale @Chomps I might be your biggest fan
@siennamae me 🤝 protein
The recall comes after the USDA reported that it received “two consumer complaints reporting that pieces of metal were found in the product.” Yikes. It only concerns 1.15-ounce vacuum-sealed packages of the brand’s mild Original Beef Stick produced from January 13 to January 15 and shipped to Illinois and California. Thankfully, there have been no confirmed reports of injury from the metal. I imagine it was more like, “Is that metal in my jerky? Ew.”
This is not the first blow Big Jerky has faced this year. In February, Top Chef host Kristen Kish recently said that she had been getting “tiny little bumps” all over her face, which only went away when she stopped eating “meat sticks and jerky” — apparently, all that processed meat had caused “histamine build up.”
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And let’s not even get started on the link between processed meats and colorectal cancer. We’ll be here all day. Instead, let’s all brainstorm some portable high-protein snacks that might be able to replace jerky. Hmmm. Tofu in a pudding cup? Maybe? That’s just a first draft, I’ll keep thinking.
