Many people have many misconceptions about chicken, such as chicken with growth hormones? Eating chicken is prone to precocious puberty? Will chickens be given antibiotics? Warm chicken is fresher than refrigerated frozen chicken? Demand products before the expiration date are bad? Nutritionist Lin Shihang solved the 5 myths about chicken at one time.
The market survey in 2015 pointed out that among the meat safety issues that consumers are most worried about, the first place is the use of growth hormones! Consumers' thinking is that Taiwan is full of chicken chop stalls. With such a large demand for chicken every day, how can Taiwan be so small that it is possible to raise so many chickens? So it must be the use of growth hormone to make the chicken grow up quickly.
The answer is yes! Absolutely not!
, and after decades of breeding technology, coupled with good breeding environment and diet deployment, the feed-to-meat rate of broilers has changed from the original 2 kg of feed to 1 kg of meat, to only 1.5 kg of feed. 1 kg of meat, so there is no need to use any growth hormone to achieve the purpose of raising meat!
In addition, plus growth hormone is a protein, it will be digested and destroyed when added to the feed. If the growth hormone is injected, think about the thousands to tens of thousands of chickens in the entire chicken farm. It is not effective to take a single dose of growth hormone, so how many laborers will it take to finish it? So,
Because of the rumors of growth hormone, coupled with the sporadic news of precocious puberty in children in recent years, the media and even non-animal husbandry medical personnel, in the programIt is conclusively pointed out that the culprit of precocious puberty is the chicken injected with growth hormone. In addition,
Chicken just won't take growth hormone, so why is there a problem of precocious puberty in recent years? First, the attribution of disease cannot be attributed to a single factor, in recent years.
In addition, the plasticizer incident that broke out in the past few years has actually been in Taiwan for decades, and, if you want to attribute it, plasticizers and high-fat diets are the main reasons!
Antibiotics are used to prevent chickens from being infected by bacteria, so they are used as "preventive administration" during the growth period of chickens. It can metabolize the antibiotics used in the early feeding period, so it is also safe for us! If you are worried, also!
In addition, there was a video a while ago that pointed out that young chickens will be injected at birth, which is proof of growth hormone or antibiotics! wrong! Antibiotics are not given by injection, but are added to the feed after calculating the dosage, so that the chickens can ingest them simultaneously.
In the video,,,, has nothing to do with antibiotics!
This is the myth of many mothers-in-law, who always feel that the warm body is the freshest and best! In the early years, there were freshly slaughtered chickens in the market. After slashing the neck of the chicken, it was thrown into a large orange bucket to let the chicken struggle and die. This was inhumane at all, and the struggle of the carcass before death would deplete the liver sugar. Causes the problem of meat stiffness!
However, in 2008, in order to prevent bird flu, Taiwan promulgated a policy of prohibiting live slaughtering. Now this inhumane slaughtering method can no longer be seen in the vegetable market!
At present, there are still meat products such as warm-body chicken and pork in traditional markets. If there is a food safety awareness or a market that has been counseled, it may be possible to control the temperature during transportation and sales, so that you can The problem of bacterial breeding is greatly reduced, which not only reduces the situation of food spoilage, but also prevents food safety problems!
However, there are still many stalls in traditional markets that do not control the temperature. Just imagine when these stalls sell goods? When to cut? How long has it been since the consumer bought it home? This, combined with the hygienic concerns of many traditional markets, makes meat a breeding ground for bacteria!
If you still like to buy "warm meat" from traditional markets, you can choose a vendor with a temperature-controlled transportation and sales environment to ensure food safety!
Consumer myths about shelf life are not limited to meat but exist in all foods! The meaning of the shelf life is to ensure that the manufacturer must ensure that there is no corruption or food safety problems in the "unopened" state before the date.
A common problem with the public is that after opening, corruption before the expiration date is considered to be the problem of the industry. However, if you take a piece of meat without washing your hands, is the corruption caused by the problem of the industry or the problem of the consumers themselves?
In addition, unopened ready-made products are often considered to be unopened.Fresh goods and not afraid to buy, which indirectly leads to food waste. , consumers don't need to care too much about the "period" of preservation!
◎ This article is from / ◎ Written by / Lin Shihang nutritionist ◎ Image source/Provided by Dazhi Image/shutterstock
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