Which is the healthiest, chicken or duck?
Some people think that eating chicken is the healthiest, while others think that eating duck is the healthiest. So, from a scientific point of view, which is the healthiest, chicken or duck? Let's analyze it together. Chicken chicken is tender and delicious, suitable for many cooking methods and nutritious. Chicken is not only suitable for hot frying and stewing soup, but also suitable for cold food and cold salad. Chicken has the function of strengthening the body. Chicken contains phospholipids which play an important role in human growth, and it is one of the important sources of fat and phospholipids in the dietary structure of China people. Chicken has a good therapeutic effect on malnutrition, chills, fatigue, irregular menstruation, anemia and physical weakness. Chinese medicine believes that chicken has the effects of warming the middle warmer, benefiting qi, tonifying deficiency and essence, strengthening the spleen and stomach, promoting blood circulation and strengthening bones and muscles. Duck meat ducks eat more aquatic organisms, so their meat tastes sweet and cold, and enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians, which has the functions of nourishing, nourishing stomach, tonifying kidney, removing tuberculosis, steaming bones, eliminating edema, stopping dysentery, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Duck meat is suitable for people with fever in the body, and it is more beneficial to people with weak constitution, loss of appetite, fever, dry stool and edema. Conclusion: The nutritional value of duck meat is similar to that of chicken meat, but from the dialectical point of view of traditional Chinese medicine, the taste and function of these two kinds of poultry meat are different. Chinese medicine believes that chicken is warm and sweet. Has the effects of warming middle warmer, benefiting qi and tonifying deficiency. Therefore, chicken is a good nourishing food. Especially in the rural areas of Jiangxi and Anhui, there is a kind of black-bone chicken with greater medicinal value, which is mostly used to regulate menstruation and stop metrorrhagia (menorrhagia or prolonged bleeding time). The famous gynecological Chinese patent medicine "Wuji Baifeng Pill" is mainly made of black-bone chicken, which can treat menstrual disorders and anemia. However, for people with hyperactivity of liver yang, such as people who often feel dizzy, have headaches and have high blood pressure; Or those with liver wind moving, such as trembling hands and feet, spasms from time to time, numbness of lips, and premonition of stroke, can't eat chicken, especially chicken heads, chicken feet and chicken wings. Chinese medicine believes that it can produce phlegm, help fire and dispel wind, and cannot be eaten. Whether cancer patients can eat chicken is still controversial. Some people think it's not suitable for eating chicken, while others think it's okay to eat chicken.