How does meat affect the body?

Previously, we published materials on how to choose the right fish. Now let's look at how to choose fresh and safe chicken meat.

It has been proven that chicken is an essential product in the diet, but only if it is fresh and raised without the use of drugs - antibiotics and hormones that were fed to this chicken, as well as dangerous bacteria if the meat was not stored properly. What should I look for?

Experts from the talk show “Rules of Survival” recommend that you follow a few simple rules.

1. The chicken should not be slippery or sticky, its meat should be quite firm.Try pressing your finger on the carcass: if the chicken immediately regains its volume, it means it is fresh. But if the dent remains for a long time, then the chicken is stale. If the carcass is very tough, then there is a high probability that it was pumped with water and you are buying water, not meat.
2. The chicken skin must be intact.Be sure to check the integrity of the skin under the paws and wings.
3. The color of chicken meat should be pink.If a chicken has blue spots, it means that the bird either died from an illness or was not handled correctly. In any case, this is impossible.
4. Yellow chicken- most likely too old, and its meat will be tough and tasteless. The age of a chicken can also be determined by the tip of the breastbone. In old birds it is ossified and almost does not bend, in young birds it is elastic and flexible.
5. Fresh chicken meat has virtually no odor.Do not buy meat marinated with spices. Spices are overpowered by the smell of rotting, so stores often marinate chickens that become stale and are not suitable for sale.
6. If you buy chicken at the store,Be sure to ensure that the packaging is intact.
7. Don't buy frozen chickensince its quality is almost impossible to determine.
8. It is best to cook chicken and store it in the refrigerator.If you purchased chicken for later use, store it in the freezer and defrost it on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.

Here's what a food quality and safety expert says:

There are many factors that affect the quality of chicken. Among them is the use of antibiotics and hormones for raising birds. The problem is that regularly taking drugs with food suppresses the body's microflora and reduces immunity. A person often gets sick, and treatment of diseases becomes more and more difficult because microbes become resistant to medications prescribed by a doctor. His advice is to cook the meat by discarding the first broth after boiling. This will help get rid of any remaining drug in the chicken meat. Any other heat treatment, such as baking or steaming, will not neutralize the antibiotic in the product.