Both ingredients are commonly used in the processed food industry as a cheap way of thickening and preserving goods. The other components of the McDonald's breakfast burrito include 'pre-cooked sausage crumbles.' Thankfully the brown-colored nodules do contain pork.
Since 2005, she has starred as Bridgette DuBois on the NBC/CBS television drama Medium with Patricia Arquette. She has made four appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. On May 15, 2007, she met Orlando Bloom, whom she said she had a crush on at an earlier appearance of the show.
Chemically defined medium. A chemically defined medium is a growth medium suitable for the in vitro cell culture of human or animal cells in which all of the chemical components are known. Standard cell culture media are commonly supplemented with animal serum (such as fetal bovine serum, FBS) as a source of nutrients and other ill-defined factors.