Chicken gizzard is the stomach of chicken, also called muscle stomach, so chicken gizzard belongs to a kind of chicken stomach. Also known as chicken gizzard and chicken liver. Generally speaking, the stomach of birds is divided into muscular stomach and glandular stomach. The glandular stomach is small and secretes gastric juice, while the muscular stomach is large and thick, which is responsible for storing and grinding food. So it can be said that chicken gizzard refers to a kind of stomach of chicken.

The pheasant's gizzard (chicken gizzard) helps the chicken to digest. Because the chicken has no teeth, it often swallows gravel and stores it here, and grinds food for physical digestion with the folds of the sandbox wall and developed muscles.

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After killing the chicken, take out the chicken gizzard (chicken gizzard), immediately remove the inner wall (yellow film), wash and dry in the sun. You can eat it raw or fried.

Most of the nutrients in chicken are protein and fat. Chicken is deficient in calcium, iron, carotene, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid, vitamins and crude fiber, so it needs to be eaten with various fruits and vegetables.

Chicken is delicious, protein is abundant, rich in methionine, and vitamin A is higher than beef and pork. Selenium in chicken breast is good for human body. Although the modern industrialized poultry breeding method will lead to a certain degree of fat increase and protein decrease in broilers, chicken is not a high-cholesterol food, especially chicken breast, which has better nutritional value and lower calories than pork.

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