Chicken gizzard is chicken stomach.

Chicken gizzard, is the chicken's stomach organs, namely chicken gizzard, chicken county liver, chicken inner gold. The avian stomach is divided into myogastric and glandular stomach, the glandular stomach is smaller to secrete gastric juice, the myogastric stomach is larger and thicker fleshed responsible for storing and grinding food, so it can be said that the gizzard refers to the chicken's stomach.

The gizzard is to help chickens for digestion, chickens do not have teeth, swallowed small stones, is stored there. The inner lining of the grit sac of the domestic chicken of the pheasant family. It is produced throughout the country.

After killing the chicken, take out the gizzard (also known as the gizzard), immediately remove the inner wall (a yellow layer of membrane), wash it and dry it in the sun. It can be eaten raw or fried.

Expanded Information:

Chicken kidneys are a kind of organ of chickens, which belong to the part of the urinary system. It is responsible for filtering impurities in the blood, maintaining the balance of body fluids and electrolytes, and finally producing urine to be excreted through subsequent tubes; it also has endocrine functions to regulate blood pressure.

It is not commonly known as "chicken waist", the common people commonly known as "chicken waist" is actually the chicken reproductive organs "testicles", should pay attention to the difference with the chicken kidney.

Chicken kidneys, although delicious, but almost no nutrition. Most of the nutrients in chicken kidneys are protein and fat, which can lead to obesity if eaten in excess. Chicken kidney lacks calcium, iron, carotene, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin and a variety of vitamins and crude fiber, long-term consumption of easy to lead to the body sub-health .

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chicken Gizzard

Baidu Encyclopedia - Chicken Kidney