Chicken stomach

Also known as chicken gizzard, chicken liver. To summarize, the avian stomach is divided into myogastric and glandular stomach, the glandular stomach is smaller and secretes gastric juice, the myogastric stomach is larger and more fleshy and responsible for storing and grinding food, so it can be said that the gizzard refers to a kind of chicken's stomach.

The gizzard of the pheasant is a digestive aid for chickens, and since chickens don't have teeth, they often swallow grit and store it here, which is physically digested by grinding the food with the folds of the gizzard wall and the well-developed muscles.

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Nutrition and Health -

Most of the nutrients in chicken are protein and fat. Chicken is deficient in calcium, iron, carotene, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and a variety of vitamins and crude fiber, and needs to be eaten with a variety of vegetables and fruits.

Chicken meat is delicious and chicken protein content is quite a lot, rich in methionine, vitamin A content and beef and pork compared to higher, chicken breast trace elements in selenium is good for the human body. Although modern poultry factory farming methods will lead to a certain degree of broiler fat elevated protein decline, but chicken is not high cholesterol food, especially chicken breast, nutritional value is better than pork, calories are also lower.

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