The SEM images of crust, crust-core interface and core regions of chicken nuggets are shown in Figs. 13 and 14. The primary basis of SEM analysis was to observe the effect of frying time, frying temperature and MC-coating on development of microstructure in the DFF chicken nuggets. Control and MC-coated chicken nuggets were deep fat fried for 0 (par fry only) and 4 min (par fry + full fry) at 175 C and 190 C.