Chicken meat is one of the most popular, favorite and affordable products in our country. Due to this popularity, there are many rumors around chicken meat. In this article we will try to understand everything objectively.
This dietary meat contains trace elements such as phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and vitamins A and E. The breast is considered the healthiest part - it contains 20% protein and only 4% fat. The most oily skin is the skin and it is recommended to get rid of it.
First, when choosing a chicken, you should give preference to a chilled carcass. When cooled, meat retains all vitamins and trace elements, while frozen meat loses a number of essential amino acids and vitamins. For this reason, such chicken meat is deprived of dietary product status under the 2010 law. Also, when buying a frozen product, you can simply overpay for water and ice. It is better to choose a domestic manufacturer from the nearest regions, so the product loses less time for delivery and gets on the counter fresher.
Do not be afraid of the yellow color of fat and skin - this is due to the diet and the amount of carotenoids in the feed and is not a sign of old or stale meat.
Many manufacturers add phosphates and saline solutions to chicken carcasses in order to retain water and thus weight. To protect yourself from this, buy only chilled chicken! Excess liquid simply flows out of chilled chicken, and unscrupulous manufacturers simply cannot do this.
There are also many horror stories that chicken meat is treated with bleach, antibiotics and hormones. These rumors are exaggerated - chlorine treatment was banned back in 2010, there is no need for antibiotics with the correct maintenance of poultry, and hormones are no longer relevant, since special meat breeds of chickens have long been bred.
Summing up our article, we can confidently say that chilled chicken meat is a healthy dietary product, recommended for consumption!
