Poultry 101

When you speak of Poultry it is any game that is domesticated and kept by human beings for the objective of meat, egg harvesting and or feather gathering. Most game, come from the superorder Galloanserae particularly the species that include quails, turkey and chickens. Waterfowl is second to the most consumed kind of poultry and are your ducks and domestic geese. Poultry in other bird species that are used for their meat such as doves, pigeons are considered game pheasants. Poultry is derived from the French word poule, which comes from the Latin Pullus which means small animal. Poultry is only second to beef as the most widely consumed kind of meat in the planet. Poultry contributes to 35% of the entire worlds eating consumption with the flight muscles, chest and walking muscles being the preferred consumption choice when it comes to the poultry carcass eats. The wings are also eaten but is more of a cultural preference with China and the United States taking preference to it. In other cultures, the wing can be separated into a base and tip and are prepared in different methods.

The red muscle as avian mycologist call or what is more popularly known as the dark mean is used for kinetic activities for the bird, in the case of a chicken is mainly for running. The dark pigment originates from the protein the muscles contained called myoglobin which is instrumental in oxygen circulation in the cells. The white meat is used mostly for short distanced burst activities such as short flight in the case of semi-flightless birds. It is also used to propel the bird which is why breast meat can be observed to be of a white category for a chicken while dark in a bird that sustains flight such ad duck and geese. www.lifestylelearningdirect.com/ has a whole segment that explains poultry in more detail and the different kinds of birds that belong to this game category.

Eating huge volumes of meat such as fowl, as with any extreme ingestion of high protein caloric foods will create undesirable effects to your body that can be any of the following: extreme weight gain, constipation and cardiovascular disease. Healthy eating habits associated with poultry consumption have been done in recent years with the awareness geared towards dark meat consumption and its higher risk for cancer. The kind of fat which is found in poultry is mostly saturated and these are associated with elevated risks of certain cancers in the gastrointestinal track. In any case a moderate consumption of poultry is advised.