Is superior-quality duck meat cooling or warming? What should it not be eaten with? What is the price per jin? Includes analysis of meat duck price trends and market prospects
Duck meat is also called wu meat, domestic duck meat, flat-bill hen meat, and white duck meat. It is a superior delicacy on the dining table and also an excellent food for people to nourish the body.So is duck meat cooling or warming? What should it not be eaten with? What is the price per jin? What are the meat duck price trends and market prospects?From the Changsha farmers' market, we learned that prices differ by region and by duck variety. The general price is around 10 yuan per jin. It can be used to make roast duck, pressed salted duck, crispy duck, duck bone soup, and more. It is suitable for people with weak constitutions, poor appetite, fever, edema, and similar conditions.
Is duck meat cooling or warming?
Duck meat is cooling and is not a "stimulating food." Duck meat is cold in nature and sweet and salty in taste, and it enters the spleen, stomach, lung, and kidney meridians. It can greatly tonify consumptive deficiency, nourish the yin of the five zang organs, and clear the heat of consumptive deficiency. However, pregnant women should not eat too much cold and cooling food, so even though duck meat is not a stimulating food, pregnant women should still eat it in moderation and stop when appropriate.
What should duck meat not be eaten with?
1. Duck meat should not be eaten with soft-shelled turtle.
Soft-shelled turtle meat is the meat of the soft-shelled turtle, a member of the Trionychidae family, and has the effect of nourishing yin and cooling the blood. Duck meat is cold in nature, and soft-shelled turtle is also cold in nature, so they are not suitable to be eaten together. Eating them together over a long time can cause yang deficiency, edema, and diarrhea, so duck meat and soft-shelled turtle should not be eaten together.
2. Duck meat should not be eaten with black wood ear mushroom.
Black wood ear mushroom should not be eaten with duck meat, because duck meat is sweet in taste and cool in nature, and eating them together can easily cause indigestion and physical discomfort.
3. Duck meat should not be eaten with chestnuts.
Eating duck meat together with chestnuts can easily cause poisoning, so the two are not suitable to be eaten together.
4. Duck meat should not be eaten with rabbit meat.
When eating duck meat, it is not recommended to also eat rabbit meat. Similar to soft-shelled turtle, duck meat and rabbit meat both belong to foods that are strongly cold in nature, and eating them together can easily lead to diarrhea, edema, and similar conditions, so the two are not recommended to be eaten together.
5. Duck meat should not be eaten with eggs.
Duck meat is cold in nature and is not suitable to be eaten with protein-rich eggs; otherwise it can easily damage the vital energy in the human body, so the two are not recommended to be eaten together.
Appendix: Analysis of meat duck price trends and market prospects
The table below shows meat duck prices in some regions, for reference only.
| Product Name | Price | Unit | Location |
| Live duck | 28 | yuan/kg | Jiangsu Lingjiatang Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market |
| Live duck | 26.6 | yuan/kg | Chengbei Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, Xishui City, Hubei |
| Live duck | 17 | yuan/kg | Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market, Changsha, Hunan |
| Live duck | 28 | yuan/kg | Jiangsu Lingjiatang Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market |
| Live duck | 26.6 | yuan/kg | Chengbei Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, Xishui City, Hubei |
| Live duck | 17 | yuan/kg | Mawangdui Vegetable Wholesale Market, Changsha, Hunan |
| Live duck | 19.5 | yuan/kg | Jiangyou Piglet Wholesale Market, Sichuan |
Market prospects:
1. The growth cycle of meat ducks is short. The breeding cycle for meat ducks is relatively short; they can generally be sold after 30-50 days of breeding, capital turnover is fast, and they can be bred multiple times a year.
2. Low investment and easy management. Meat duck breeding requires little investment; duck houses can be simple and makeshift, feed is mainly grain-based and relatively low in price, feeding and management are simple, and labor requirements are low.
3. High income. The income from meat duck breeding is relatively high, with a net income of about 2 yuan per meat duck; more than 5 batches can be raised in a year, so the income is relatively high.
4. Meat ducks are one of the main poultry breeds raised in rural areas and account for a large proportion of household farming. Meat ducks are a major processed agricultural and sideline product in China, and annual market demand is very large! Some processing plants process hundreds of thousands of ducks per year, and some enterprises directly sign breeding contracts with farmers. Raising meat ducks is a new project for farmers to get rich quickly and has broad prospects for promotion in rural areas!