Chicken gizzard is the stomach of chicken, also called muscle stomach, so chicken gizzard belongs to a kind of chicken stomach. Also known as chicken gizzard and chicken liver. Generally speaking, the stomach of birds is divided into muscular stomach and glandular stomach. The glandular stomach is small and secretes gastric juice, while the muscular stomach is large and thick, which is responsible for storing and grinding food. So it can be said that chicken gizzard refers to a kind of stomach of chicken.
The pheasant's gizzard (chicken gizzard) helps the chicken to digest. Because the chicken has no teeth, it often swallows gravel and stores it here, and grinds food for physical digestion with the folds of the sandbox wall and developed muscles.
Chicken gizzards are produced all over the country. After killing the chicken, take out the chicken gizzard (chicken gizzard), immediately remove the inner wall (yellow film), wash and dry. You can eat it raw or fried.
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What China people call "chicken offal" generally includes liver, kidney, gizzard (muscle stomach) and chicken intestines. And some countries will count the chicken neck as soup. Because there are some small lymph aggregates under the epidermis of chicken neck, you can peel off the chicken skin on the neck before eating.
Among them, the spleen is a peripheral lymphoid organ and needs to be removed. The lungs and trachea are easy to contain pathogenic bacteria and need to be discarded; The liver has the function of metabolism and detoxification, the kidney is responsible for excreting harmful substances, and the stomach grinds food. These three internal organs are directly related to the metabolism of some harmful substances, which may remain here. Therefore, chicken liver, chicken kidney, chicken gizzard and chicken intestines should not be eaten in large quantities, and there is no need to worry about eating occasionally.
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