Duck neck can be eaten. The neck is where the lymph nodes are concentrated, so many people think that eating it will be harmful, but in fact, the lymph nodes are distributed all over the body. No matter which part of the meat is eaten, as long as the lymph nodes are removed, it will not affect eating.

Lymphatic aggregates of duck neck are mostly distributed under the skin. If you like to eat duck neck and don't want to eat these lymphoid tissues, then you can remove the skin when eating duck neck. From a nutritional point of view, skin is rich in fat and should be eaten less.

In fact, there are no formed lymph nodes in ducks, only lymph aggregates that play the same role. If these lymphoid aggregates are not sick, there will be no obvious harm if they are eaten in a small amount after sufficient heating. Lymphatic organs on the neck of ducks-thymus and thyroid containing hormones. It will also be removed in standardized slaughter, and the duck neck sold in regular channels does not have these parts.

Extended data

Duck neck is one of the traditional famous foods in Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan. Also known as sauce duck neck or sauce duck neck, it originated and spread in Changde, Dongting Lake area in Qing Dynasty, and spread to Sichuan and Hubei through Hunan, and became popular all over the country in recent years.

Duck neck belongs to sauce-flavored food (mainly duck neck and sauce duck, including sauce duck wing, sauce duck neck, sauce duck leg, sauce duck claw, sauce duck tongue, sauce beef, sauce fish, sauce qianzi, sauce lotus root, etc.). ). Sauced food is refined by soaking in various spices, then air-drying and baking. The finished product is dark red in color, fragrant, spicy, sweet and hemp.

Supplementing qi and deficiency: its meat tastes sweet and cold, and enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians. It has the effects of tonifying deficiency and fatigue, nourishing the yin of the five internal organs, clearing away the heat of deficiency and fatigue, enriching blood and promoting blood circulation, nourishing the stomach and promoting fluid production, relieving cough and self-alarm, eliminating snail stagnation, clearing heat and invigorating the spleen, and debilitating edema. Treat physical weakness, physical weakness after illness, malnutrition and edema.

Nourishing yin: it is best to be old white and white black. Stewing the old fat duck with sea cucumber has a great nourishing effect, and the stewed duck juice is conducive to nourishing the yin of the five internal organs and wasting heat.

The general population can eat it. It is suitable for people with excessive internal heat, anorexia, physical weakness, anorexia, dry stool and edema, as well as malnutrition and cancer patients.

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