Duck gizzard is duck stomach, duck gizzard, duck's muscle stomach, shape flat round, meat is close, tough and chewy, taste long, no greasy feeling, is young and old are favorite delicacies. The main nutrients of duck gizzard are carbohydrates, protein, fat, niacin, vitamins and minerals such as calcium and magnesium.

Nutritional value

The main nutrients of duck gizzard are carbohydrates, protein, fat, niacin, vitamin C, vitamin E and calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, selenium and other minerals. Duck gizzard is rich in iron, women can eat more appropriately. According to Chinese medicine, duck gizzard is sweet, salty and flat in nature, and has the effect of strengthening the stomach.

Duck gizzard is the muscle stomach of duck. The stomach of birds is divided into glandular stomach (true stomach, gIandular stomach) and muscular stomach (sand sac, muscular stomach). Glandular stomach thin wall, wall cell secretion of gastric acid and a variety of digestive enzymes, used to soak, digesting food; myogastric developed muscular wall, the inner wall is covered with a layer of hard horny membrane (traditional Chinese medicine called Neijin, chicken gold, duck gizzard coat), the inner lumen contains a number of small grains of sand (swallowed by birds), the role of the similar to the teeth, used to grind the food.