How to choose a chicken breast Bashny.Net

Chicken breast, brisket, white chicken meat - all these are the names of the same type of meat, located on both sides of the base of the breast on the chicken carcass.



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Chicken breast dishes are firmly established in our daily diet. They are full of the main pages of culinary sites, about their unprecedented benefits we vying tell fitness trainers and nutrition specialists. But is this "champion food" safe?

In 100 grams of chicken breast contains a huge amount of easily digestible protein (23.6 grams). Fat, by contrast, is at least 1.1 grams, and there are practically no carbohydrates (0.2 grams). At the same time, it has a fairly low price and is easy to prepare.



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Low calorie content makes chicken fillet an indispensable source of protein for people suffering from obesity and overweight, and low cholesterol allows you to recommend it for cardiovascular diseases.

In any balanced nutrition system, chicken breast is given an honorable place. In a number of diets, such as the Atkins diet or the Dukan diet, chicken breast is the basis of the entire diet.





DepositPhotos This is in theory, and the reality, unfortunately, is that cheap chicken fillet is one of the dirtiest meats. If you care about your health, learn about the possible risks of frequent consumption of factory chicken.

To reduce the cost of chicken meat, manufacturers minimize the cost of poultry nutrition and accelerate its growth as much as possible. Nobody thinks about consumers when there is really a lot of money at stake.



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Instead of the 4-6 months a chicken should grow, it grows on farms for 5-7 weeks. In order to achieve such a pace, supplements containing the female hormone estrogen are mixed into the feed. The high concentration of this hormone in the blood in women can cause a failure of the menstrual cycle, and men risk infertility.

The disease of one bird can lead to the death of the entire brood, so antibiotics give chickens courses throughout life. The harm of eating meat with antibiotics has a diverse nature.



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First, when using such a bird in a person, the work of the liver, kidneys, digestive tract can be disrupted. Secondly, allergic people can have various acute reactions. But perhaps the most dangerous is the regular receipt of microdoses of antibiotics on the scale of the entire population of the country.

This leads to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant forms of bacteria. In other words, if a person, for example, falls ill with pneumonia, then the pathogen will not be affected by those antibiotics that fed the chicken.





DepositPhotos is also important what chickens are fed. In addition to specially administered additives, groups of hazardous substances of various origin may be present in mixed feeds. They come with contaminated feed raw materials, primarily pesticides.

Chickens at poultry farms are stuffed with the products of pharmacological companies since the moment of birth. But to examine each batch of meat control bodies is not always possible. Therefore, it is important to know how to choose healthy and safe chicken.

As you already understood, a beautiful chicken breast in a package with a bright label is not a guarantee of the quality of the product. The choice of chicken fillets should be approached carefully and pay attention to even small things, because this is your health.

1. Packaging
   Bloated packaging is the first indicator of stale chicken. Then comes the smell and the color.
   
   
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2. Colour
   The meat must be pink, not yellow, experts say. This applies to both store chicken and homemade. The yellow tint indicates that the shelf life is coming to an end.
3. Size
   This is one of those times when more is not better. In stores, chicken fillets often weigh more than 300 grams. Such a large weight is a sign of accelerated poultry cultivation. The weight of a normal fillet of domestic chicken, according to veterinarians, is 150-180, a maximum of 200 grams.
4. White stripes
   White stripes indicate that the chicken grew too fast and its fat tissue developed unevenly. Such meat contains harmful fats and additives and can be not only tasteless, but also harmful to health.
   
   
   
5. Methods for determining freshness
   In order to determine how fresh meat you buy, there are old and effective methods. When pressing on the fillet should not form holes, and if you wet the chicken with a napkin, it should remain almost dry.

Consumer advice

1. E. coli dies during heat treatment from 60 degrees for at least 15 minutes. Therefore, make sure that the internal fibers of the meat do not remain semi-raw.
2. While cooking the chicken, first soak it, and then boil a couple of minutes and drain the water.
3. It is better to sacrifice the skin - this reduces the fat content of the product, besides, it is in the skin that chemicals used during slaughter and pre-sale processing of poultry can accumulate.
4. Nutritionists consider the most valuable white breast meat. It has fewer blood capillaries. But it is with blood that pathogenic substances get into the meat.
5. Give preference not to fried, but boiled, stewed and baked meat. When frying, carcinogens are formed.
6. If you are a fan of chicken broth, do not use store meat for its preparation.

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