How much does top-grade oriental blood bird's nest cost per jin, and how is it formed and how does it differ from white bird's nest?

Blood bird's nest is one of the types of bird's nest. Because it is richer in mineral elements than white bird's nest, its price is very high. It can be eaten by both men and women, and it has effects such as nourishing the skin and beauty care and preventing miscarriage, so it is quite popular among women. So how much does blood bird's nest generally cost per jin? How is it formed? What is the difference from white bird's nest?

Latest price:

The price of blood bird's nest varies according to the place of origin and form of the blood bird's nest purchased (whether it is whole or broken), and wholesale and retail prices also differ considerably, generally ranging from 380-600 yuan per 10 grams.

Because the swiftlet's secretion of saliva to build a nest before each egg-laying is a cyclical physiological reaction, there is no difference in the quality of the bird's nests harvested three times each year. Blood bird's nest is mostly produced in places in Thailand such as Luolan Rock Mountain, Kangshi Mountain, and Songkhla Mountain, and it is actually not formed, as legend says, from the blood vomited by the swallow. According to data, the quality of blood bird's nest is actually inferior to white bird's nest, and its aroma and the components obtained after soaking are also inferior to white bird's nest. Blood bird's nest has only become prestigious in recent years because it has been highly praised.

How is it formed?

1. The swiftlet eats foods such as coastal algae and insects and flying ants from deep mountains, so its saliva contains more minerals, and the nest is prone to oxidizing into a red color.

2. The minerals contained in the rock walls over thousands of years slowly seep into the nest through the contact surface between the nest and the rock wall, and the natural mineral water in the stone caves drips into the bird's nest, causing a change in color.

3. The air inside the stone caves is very stuffy and hot, and the deeper into the cave, the stuffier and hotter it is. The bird's nest containing minerals is oxidized by the stuffy, hot air and turns gray-red or clear red. According to people who have climbed bird's nest mountains, the nests on the outer edge of the caves are all pearl white. As you go farther in, the bird's nests on the rock walls begin as pearl yellow, then orange-yellow (yellow bird's nest), and only when you reach the deepest and stuffiest cave interior do you see orange-red bird's nests. Note, it is not bright red, but orange-red or gray-red. The bright red blood bird's nests on the market now are all fumigated. Natural blood bird's nest is not that bright red; when dried it is also reddish brown, and it still has the unique fishy smell of the swiftlet (among the hundreds of thousands of caves that produce bird's nest, only a few caves in Sabah have blood bird's nest).

Difference from white bird's nest:

White bird's nest is bird's nest that is off-white or milky white, while iron-red bird's nest is blood bird's nest. White bird's nest is also called official bird's nest, a tribute bird's nest of the ancient imperial palace. There are two kinds, cave bird's nest and house bird's nest, and today house bird's nest accounts for the majority of production. Blood bird's nest is not dyed red by swallows vomiting blood, as rumor says. It is a type of cave bird's nest. Minerals enter the bird's nest through water seeping through the rock walls, and those with high iron content turn red. Because of its scarcity and richness in minerals, its price is high.

Which of the two is better?

Compared with white bird's nest, red bird's nest contains more iron and minerals, and because its quantity is scarce, red bird's nest is much more expensive than white bird's nest.

However, purely in terms of health preservation, ordinary white bird's nest is already enough to meet people's needs for nutrients. For women, regularly eating bird's nest can maintain the skin, make the skin moist, smooth, and elastic, and can regulate the endocrine cycle, reduce facial wrinkles, and nourish and invigorate the blood. In short, bird's nest has a beauty and skin-care effect on women. In addition, its therapeutic effect on women's menstrual discomfort, menstrual pain, and heavy menstruation is also quite good.