Poultry meat

Poultry meat is considered one of the most popular and widely distributed foods. Moreover, it is poultry meat that is considered both a healthy and dietary food. The distinctive properties of poultry meat make it possible to classify the product as an important component of the diet of the vast majority of the inhabitants of planet Earth. Many dishes made from poultry are considered recognized masterpieces of world cooking. Poultry meat has exceptional taste as well as nutritional characteristics.

In addition, poultry meat is considered a publicly available and fairly budget food. In modern grocery stores, you can find a decent species variety of poultry meat. on the shelves of domestic stores, you can most often find chicken or duck meat, as well as turkey meat. Some specialty meat shops are available to purchase game. The nutritional properties of poultry meat have been known since ancient times. Initially, people began to extract game meat during the hunt.

After some time, man domesticated wild chickens, and then other varieties of modern poultry, whose meat is used in cooking. about two and a half thousand years ago, the Persians brought the first roosters and chickens from India. These were the oldest noble species of birds with golden breasts, as well as long and beautiful malachite-black tails, which fascinated when they shimmered in the sun. Nowadays, you will not surprise anyone with chicken or turkey farms.

This became commonplace, as farmers began to appear everywhere, who took up game breeding. The calorie content of poultry meat depends primarily on the type of product. However, the average calorie content of poultry meat does not exceed 194 Kcal, which are per 100 grams of product. In the food industry, all types of poultry meat are divided into two large categories - poultry meat and game.

Types of poultry meat

In addition, the following main types of poultry meat exist:



chicken meat is considered the most popular meat, is famous for its dietary characteristics, as well as the chemical composition, which contains the largest amount of protein and the smallest amount of fat in comparison with other pitchforks of meat;

duck meat, as well as geese;

turkey meat;



Types of game meat:



quail meat;

woodcock, a rather rare bird;

wild duck;

pheasant;

partridges.

Composition of poultry meat

As a rule, the chemical composition of poultry meat, both domestic and game, is distinguished by an abundance of various vitamins, and in addition, useful natural compounds. As mentioned above, chicken meat or turkey meat differ in their taste and nutritional characteristics, in addition, these types of poultry meat contain vitamins of groups A, B, C, E and PP, as well as such useful compounds as phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, manganese, iron, as well as iodine and sodium. Game meat is considered a recognized source of iron and many other useful and indispensable compounds for the human body.