Chicken gizzards are also known as chicken gizzards and chicken county livers.
The gizzard, is the chicken's sand sac, which is also known as the muscle stomach, so the gizzard belongs to a type of chicken stomach. Also known as chicken gizzard, chicken shire liver. To summarize, the bird's stomach is divided into myogastric and glandular stomach, the glandular stomach is smaller and secretes gastric juice, the myogastric is larger and thicker and is responsible for storing and grinding food, so it can be said that the gizzard is a kind of chicken's stomach.
The gizzard of the domestic chicken, a pheasant, helps the chicken to digest. Since the chicken has no teeth, it often swallows grit and stores it here, and it works together with the folds in the wall of the gizzard and the well-developed muscles to grind the food for physical digestion.
Chicken gizzards are produced throughout the country. After killing the chicken, take out the gizzard (chicken gizzard), immediately remove the inner wall (yellow layer of membrane), wash and dry. It can be eaten raw or fried.
Expanded Information
What the Chinese call "chicken miscellaneous" generally includes liver, kidneys, gizzard (muscle stomach), chicken intestines, and so on, while in some countries chicken necks are counted as well, to be used in soups. Since there are small lymph nodes under the skin of the neck, you can peel off the skin from the neck and eat it.
The spleen is a peripheral lymphatic organ and needs to be removed; the lungs and trachea are prone to contain disease-causing bacteria and also need to be discarded; the liver has the functions of metabolism and detoxification, while the kidneys bear the responsibility of excreting harmful substances, and the muscular gastrointestinal tract grinds up the food, and the metabolism of these three viscera is directly related to the metabolism of some harmful substances, and harmful substances may be left here. Therefore, chicken liver, chicken kidney, chicken gizzard, chicken intestines should not be frequently eaten in large quantities, but occasional consumption need not worry.
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