2016 Free-Range Chicken Price Market Trend Analysis
Free-range chicken means local chicken, also called grass chicken, firewood chicken, stupid chicken, etc. Because its meat is delicious, rich in nutrition, and free from pollution, its meat and eggs are green foods. Free-range chickens and free-range eggs are both in high demand on the market, quite favored by people, and prices keep climbing. Let's take a look together at the 2016 free-range chicken price market below!
Free-Range Chicken Price Market
The market price of free-range chicken is mainly determined by the quality of the free-range chicken. If it is a free-range chicken raised by a farming family itself, it is about 25 yuan per jin. This kind of free-range chicken has no hormones, has eaten coarse grains since it was young, and has a long growth cycle, needing 8 to 12 months to grow into an adult chicken. The price of free-range chickens raised on farms is generally between 13 and 18 yuan, varying from place to place. This kind of free-range chicken usually eats feed when it is a chick, and after growing to a certain weight switches to eating coarse grains.
Identification of True and Fake Free-Range Chicken
1. From the appearance, the free-range chicken's head is smaller, its body shape is compact, its breast and leg muscles are strong and firm, the skin of its breast tightly clings to the muscle, its legs are slender, and its claws are fine. Because of the long growth cycle, the large toe is well developed and appears relatively long. The comb is large, upright, and bright in color. When you turn the feathers open with your hand, you cannot see thick black feather roots; they are all fine hard root hairs. The head and body of a non-free-range chicken are larger, the claws are very thick, the feathers are looser, and the comb is smaller. Because the growth cycle is shorter, the large toe has almost no development and looks like a small piece of flesh.
2. After slaughtering and washing the chicken, feel it with your hand. The free-range chicken's skin is thin, the pores are fine, and arranged in a net pattern. The skin color of the chicken meat is somewhat yellow, and the subcutaneous fat is evenly distributed. The skin of a non-free-range chicken is glossier, and the color is also somewhat white. Some free-range chickens have bruises on part or a large area of the skin. This is because free-range chickens are kept in the open. They are easily injured while foraging in the wild or running. Free-range chickens are rather wild by nature. They often fight. Pecking injuries or trampling injuries may also occur. But this does not affect consumption.
3. Free-range chicken takes a relatively long time to stew. Generally two or three hours. While broiler chicken is generally thoroughly cooked in one hour. After the free-range chicken is stewed, the soup is golden yellow and looks very bright. The fat gathers on the surface of the soup, and without adding monosodium glutamate or any other seasoning, it has a special fresh fragrance. The soup color of non-free-range chicken is relatively cloudy, and the chicken meat is loose. The fat gathers less, it tastes bland when drunk, and it does not have the rich fragrance of chicken soup.
Nutritional Value of Free-Range Chicken
1. Compared with the broiler chicken we raise, the meat of free-range chicken is firmer, and the meat structure and nutritional ratio are more reasonable. Free-range chicken meat contains rich protein, trace elements and various nutrients, and the fat content is relatively low. It has important value for our human health care, is a meat product relatively liked by us Chinese people, and belongs to high-protein meat.
2. Free-range chicken contains rich amino acids. Amino acids have a very important effect on the human body. They are the most basic substances that make up our human body proteins and are related to life activities, are the basic units that make up protein molecules in organisms, are the basic substances of our life, and have a close relationship with human life activities. They are indispensable nutrients in our human body. These nutrients in free-range chicken meat have very important significance for our human body's growth and development.
3. The chicken skin of free-range chicken contains rich collagen, which can be quickly absorbed and used by the human body. It is a very good collagen. When we cook free-range chicken, we will find the difference in meat quality between free-range chicken and the chicken we buy on the market. Free-range chicken can be used as a nourishing food. In the past, after a pregnant woman gave birth, using free-range chicken to make soup could promote the body's recovery. In the recovery diet after a person falls ill, stewed free-range chicken soup is also a very good choice. Eating free-range chicken often can strengthen our human body's constitution and improve our human body's immunity. There are many ways to prepare free-range chicken; it can be prepared by clear stewing, roasting, air-drying and various other methods. It is a truly green and pollution-free meat food.