Eating broilers in summer can easily spend the summer heat. The human body consumes a lot in hot weather, so it is more suitable to eat broilers to supplement the body. Moreover, broilers contain certain growth hormones, which are suitable for growing children and frail elderly people. In dog days, some places still have the custom of eating broilers to cool off the heat. Winter is a good time to eat chicken for tonic, because chicken * * * has the effects of warming the middle warmer, benefiting qi, replenishing essence and marrow, benefiting five internal organs and tonifying deficiency. Eating chicken can enhance physical fitness and improve immunity. Since broilers also have nourishing effects, are they more nutritious than hens?

Broiler is just a mature rooster. From the point of view of nutrition, roosters and hens are similar. Many people may think that hens are usually used to make food, but hens are more nutritious. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that roosters and hens have different therapeutic effects. Rooster has the function of strengthening yang and invigorating qi, and has a strong warming effect, which is more suitable for young and middle-aged men.

Hens have the effects of benefiting qi and nourishing blood, strengthening spleen and tonifying deficiency, and are suitable for nourishing people with yin deficiency and qi deficiency. Especially for women with blood deficiency during menstruation or postpartum, it also has the effect of enriching blood. Compared with roosters, hens are more suitable for all ages, especially the elderly with weak constitution. However, both roosters and hens will get angry if they eat too much.