Compared with common chicken, black-bone chicken contains 10 kinds of amino acids, with higher contents of protein, vitamin B2, nicotinic acid, vitamin E, phosphorus, iron, potassium and sodium, but lower contents of cholesterol and fat. No wonder people call black-bone chicken "black-hearted baby". Therefore, black-bone chicken is a good product to supplement fatigue and nourish the body. Eating black-bone chicken can improve physiological function, delay aging and strengthen muscles and bones. It has obvious effect on preventing and treating osteoporosis, rickets and iron deficiency anemia in women. Compendium of Materia Medica holds that black-bone chicken has the functions of tonifying deficiency, quenching thirst, benefiting parturient, treating metrorrhagia and some debilitating diseases. The famous Wuji Baifeng Pill is a good medicine for nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and replenishing essence, strengthening spleen and strengthening chong.

Black-bone chicken has high nutritional value. Modern science has found that Taihe silky fowl contains a variety of amino acids, melanin, trace elements and other beneficial components, which can replenish blood and strengthen the body if eaten for a long time.

Black-bone chicken is black not only in skin and meat, but also in bones, which is extremely rare and unique in biology. Many scholars who study black-bone chicken believe that melanin is the secret of black-bone chicken with good medicinal value.