Nov 13, 2019
Chicken meat is a basic ingredient popularly used in preparing many different delicious and digestible menu items. In addition to providing all the nutrients your body needs, it’s a lean meat with a high protein content, so it is suitable for people of every gender and age from toddler to the elderly. It’s also great for health lovers and people who are trying to lose weight.
Chickens are usually produced industrially in standing cages (egg cages) with limited space. As a result, the chicken grown are often stressed or malnourished, and growth enhancers are used to promote growth. However, a new trend in chicken farming is catching on to provide high quality and safer chickens for consumers who are increasingly paying attention to their health.
· Free-range or cage-free system
This means raising chicken in a way that allows chickens to walk freely outside their housings in areas covered with grass. Chickens are allowed to exhibit natural behaviors such as dust-bathing and pecking on vegetables, so the chickens are healthier physically and psychologically, becoming what we call "happy chicks" and providing superior flavor and quality.
· Benja Chickens
Benja chickens are raise by feeding them primarily with specially selected brown rice rich in GABA, fiber and anti-oxidants. High quality chicken raised in a special way will be safe and tender yet firm while being over 55% more juicy than normal and not at all tough. In addition, high quality chicken contains little breast fat while still not being too dry, as it contains fine muscle fibers attractively arranged as a result of exercise and physical exertion. In addition, this kind of chicken appears soft pink and appetizing with less "old man smell" than ordinary chicken.
Chicken is well-known for containing a lot of protein and little fat, especially around the breast. About 100 grams of chicken provides about 120 calories of energy, but it offers as much as 22.50 grams of protein and just 2.62 grams of fat. Moreover, chicken is free from sugar and contains lots of nutrients that are beneficial to the body such as amino acids, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and Vitamin A, which promote in the repair of muscles and damaged parts of the body. In particular, if the chicken is specially raised or free-ranged, so it receives better nutrients and has better metabolism. The chicken is even leaner and offers more unsaturated Omega-3, Omega-6 fatty acids, and protein content than ordinary chicken.
