Li Shizhen, a famous pharmacist, recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that peacocks can eliminate evil spirits and their flesh and blood can detoxify. Peacock is full of treasures, meat can be eaten, gall can cure diseases, and feathers can be made into specimens. Among them, eating is the main use of blue peacock breeding in China at present. Compared with chickens, peacocks have more meat and tender meat, which is a healthy food with high protein and low fat. Its protein content is as high as 23.2%, containing more than 20 kinds of amino acids, vitamins and trace elements, while its fat content is only 0.8%.

Qian Ruxing, president of the Cooking and Catering Industry Association, said: "Its nutritional value is higher than that of native chicken. If its price is basically the same as that of native chicken, I think consumers must choose blue peacock banquet and peacock meat to eat. "