Who doesn’t love chicken nuggets? For many families, frozen chicken nuggets are a staple weeknight dinner. But cooking them improperly has been linked to foodborne illnesses like salmonella.

Brandon Cavazos, Burdell’s chef de cuisine and the mind behind the restaurant’s chicken nuggets, knows this. “When [our prep cook] saw what I was doing, he didn't believe me,” Cavazos says ...

Some combinations and recipes of chicken nuggets are worse for you and your health than others, but even premium distributors of chicken nuggets are not considered healthy food. One reason is that ...