Blind taste test decides Australia's favourite nugget
A blind taste test was conducted by The Lab in February 2025 with QSR customers comparing Hungry Jacks, McDonalds, KFC and Grill'd.
According to the study, Grill'd is the runaway winner with a whopping 66 per cent of Aussies voting for Grill'd's Healthy Fried Chicken bites as their favourite nugget.
Grill'd claims its chicken bites are healthier than others.
'100% RSPCA approved whole chicken nuggets are the real deal. No reconstituted mush and no nasties!' it claims in its advertising.
Fans of Grill'd's Healthy Fried Chicken bites were quick to flood the comments on the eatery's Instagram post, supporting the winning nugget.
'I could have these every day 🔥' one person wrote.
'I see perfection 😍' another commented.
This isn't the first blind taste test that has taken the nugget-discussion by storm.
In June 2024, Nectar — a branch of the US Food Systems Innovations — conducted the world's largest blind taste test and found that plant-based nuggets were the clear favourite.
In its sensory analysis of five plant-based product categories — burgers, hot dogs, bacon, tenders and nuggets — the nugget was the only category in which voters decided the vegetarian alternative surpassed the taste of the meat equivalent.
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