Which one is better, chicken soup or duck soup? Goose soup?

Old hens and old ducks do taste better and are indeed more delicious than similar young poultry, and they can withstand stewing.

From a chemical perspective, the taste nucleotides increase as the growth cycle increases. Its ingredients are the same as food freshness enhancers, such as chicken essence, chicken powder, freshness-enhancing MSG, soy sauce, and instant noodle seasoning packets. Various meats and mushrooms contain flavor-producing nucleotides. This will cause them to "smell like chicken" or "duck".

However, the old pigs and old cows are not so lucky. Because if their growth cycle is long, their muscle fibers will be rough and their connective tissue will increase, which is called "poor meat quality."

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, "medicinal therapy is not as good as dietary therapy."

Let’s talk about ducks first. It is recorded in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty: "Duck is also a water bird. It is suitable to use blue-headed male duck to treat water and urination; it is easy to use black-bone white duck to treat fatigue, heat and poison"; and Wang Shixiong's famous traditional Chinese medicine diet and health book of the Qing Dynasty "Suixiju Food Spectrum" records: "Duck meat can nourish the yin of the five internal organs, clear away the heat caused by fatigue, nourish the blood and promote water, nourish the stomach and promote fluid, relieve cough and relieve fluid. Male, fat and very old people are good." There is also a saying among the people that "the old duck saves on tonics during the severe summer heat".

The protein content of duck is much higher than that of other poultry, the iron content is 4 times that of other meats, and the fat content is moderate and evenly distributed, mostly unsaturated fatty acids. They are water creatures, so their meat is sweet and cold. People who are weak, have heat in the body, suffer from internal heat, have dry stools, or have edema will eat more. However, those with deficiency and cold stomach, obesity, and arteriosclerosis should not eat it.

ps. The cost of raising old male ducks is too high (they cannot lay eggs and cannot crow), so they are rarely encountered. Therefore, old ducks generally refer to female ducks that are more than three years old.

Let’s talk about chicken. "Suixiju Diet Manual" states: "Eating more food produces heat and moves wind"; the Han Dynasty pharmaceutical work "Bielu" once recorded: "Danxiongji: Mainly used for chronic injuries and sores. White maled chicken: Mainly lowering Qi, treating madness and evil. , soothes the five internal organs, relieves injuries, and quenches thirst. Yellow hen: Mainly relieves thirst, incontinences of urination, relieves intestinal irritation, replenishes the five internal organs, relieves injuries, heals fatigue, and replenishes qi. Pain relief. "

There are many types of chickens with different functions. Silky chicken is generally used as medicine, and silky chicken can cure various diseases of deficiency and is regarded as the "holy medicine of gynecology". The rooster is Yang, and its tonic properties are not as good as those of the hen. Hens are more susceptible to the elderly, women, mothers and the infirm. Among them, young hens are tender and are mostly used to replenish youth and weak bones in old age, while old hens are mostly used for pregnant women. Compared to ducks, chickens are warmer.