Chinese medicine considers chicken as a warm food.
Chicken is sweet in flavor and warm in nature. It has the functions of warming the middle, benefiting the qi, tonifying the essence, filling the marrow, and lowering the rebelliousness. It can be used for spleen deficiency and edema, deficiency and thinness, postpartum milk insufficiency, kidney deficiency and deafness and other diseases. Where the real evidence, the evil poison is not clear, should not be eaten.
In addition, each 100 grams of chicken contains 167 calories, of which 18.5 grams of protein, 1.4 grams of carbohydrates, 9.6 grams of fat, 187 milligrams of cholesterol, vitamin A42IU, vitamin C3 milligrams, 17 milligrams of calcium.
The most important nutrient of chicken is protein, it is a good source of protein, its protein structure is reasonable, high absorption rate, easy to digest, suitable for the elderly, children and other types of people to supplement protein.
Moderate intake of chicken can provide a variety of nutrients for the human body, but chicken cholesterol content is high, patients with hypercholesterolemia need to appropriately limit the intake of chicken, while chicken, although nutrient-rich, should also be combined with vegetables, fruits, staple foods, as well as eggs, milk, and other kinds of food, in order to ensure balanced nutrition.