Effects and functions of chicken

Chicken is mild in nature, warm in taste, and sweet in taste. It enters the spleen and stomach meridians; it can replenish qi, replenish essence, and add marrow; it is used for fatigue, thinness, and Insufficient food, diarrhea, dizziness, palpitations, irregular menstruation, low postpartum milk, thirst, edema, frequent urination, spermatorrhea, deafness and tinnitus, etc.

1. Strengthen the body

Chicken has a high digestibility and is easily absorbed and utilized by the human body. It can enhance physical strength and strengthen the body.

2. Improve immunity

In modern society, white-collar workers who are busy every day and often in a sub-healthy state should eat more to enhance immunity and reduce the chance of illness. Chicken has the effects of warming and replenishing qi, replenishing essence and marrow, replenishing the five internal organs, and replenishing deficiencies. It is used to treat symptoms such as fatigue and thinness, lack of food, diarrhea, dizziness, palpitations, irregular menstruation, postpartum lactation, thirst, edema and other symptoms. .

3. Kidney Essence

It can relieve symptoms such as frequent urination, deafness, lack of sperm and coldness caused by insufficient kidney essence.

4. Promote intellectual development

It has antioxidant and certain detoxification effects. It has a better effect in improving heart and brain function and promoting children's intellectual development.

The nutritional value of chicken

1. Compared with pork and beef, chicken has higher protein content and lower fat content. In addition, chicken protein is rich in essential amino acids for the human body. Its content is very similar to the amino acid profile in eggs and milk, so it is a source of high-quality protein. The protein content of chicken varies according to the part, with skin and without skin. The order from high to low is skinless chicken, breast meat, and thigh meat. Chicken skin contains a lot of lipids, so chicken with skin must not be regarded as a low-calorie food.

2. Chicken is also a good source of phosphorus, iron, copper and zinc, and is rich in vitamin B12, vitamin B6, vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin K, etc.

3. Compared with beef and pork, the lipids of chicken contain more unsaturated fatty acids - linoleic acid and linolenic acid, which can reduce the content of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol that is harmful to human health. .