Food Facts about Chicken

Chicken is probably the most eaten and most loved non-vegetarian food product. Chicken was probably domesticated in the very early centuries after the nomadic man started settling down and domesticated animals for his benefit.

Interesting Food Facts about Chicken

• The animal chicken, is a descendant of the Red Junglefowl hybrid. The Gray Junglefowl were in fact domesticated before the Red Junglefowl. The idea to domesticate Junglefowl originated in the northern parts of India.
• One can keep a raw chicken frozen for a time span of about 2 years. Though this kind of storage is possible and does not change taste and flavor, it is advisable not to consume chicken stored for such a prolonged time period.
• Heard about incubators that are used at poultry farms? Well, the prototype appeared about 4,000 years ago, in Egypt, and could hold 10,000 chicks.
• A poultry farm worker who separates chicks into males and females is known as the 'sexer', and can separate 1,000 chicks per hour with almost 100% accuracy.
• Chicken! The most popular meat! Well it is not just popular, it is also the staple diet of some people. Over 80 pounds of chicken is consumed by an average American every year.

Chicken Food Nutritional Facts

• Are you health and diet conscious? Then this is something that you should definitely know. An average dish of cooked chicken meat weighting about 4 ounces, contains 337 calories. If you fry it, then the calories almost double.
• Did you know that the human body can derive about 30 different nutritional substances from just 100 grams of chicken?
• Just as the nutritional value of chicken food is very high, so is the energy measure. 100 grams of chicken meat contains about 916 Kilojoules of energy. Which is very energetic!
• Among all the chicken food facts, one that is mentioned very rarely is that, there are 120 calories on an average in one serving of chicken meat. Sounds less for one serving, but it totals up to one big figure when we have a meal. They say a good sense of taste on the tongue and a big appetite, is not just a virtue, but it can also be a vice.

Fried Chicken Facts

• Fried chicken nutrition? Well about 900 calories per serving, that contains about 50 grams fat, 200 milligrams of cholesterol, carbohydrates, oils and proteins. Whew, that's quite a lot! Avoid eating at night and exercise the next day.
• Is fried chicken popular? Well more than half the entrees ordered in fast food chains, hotels, motels and restaurants are for fried chicken.
• Topic of debate, 'Did fried chicken originate in the United States?' Answer - yes and no, fried chicken that we eat today originated in United States. But the concept of frying chicken originated in Europe in the Middle Ages.

Chicken Soup Facts

• Every body enjoys a bowl of chicken soup when they are down with flu. Well more than half the revenue of chicken soup manufactures of the United States is generated during the cold and flu season.
• The chicken that is used to make chicken soup products are known as 'stewing hens'.

There are several other chicken food facts that we do not know for example, Blancmange, the sweet dessert, in olden times was made with the help of chicken meat and sugar. The healthy chicken recipes, which are titled Tetrazzini, were actually made in the honor of Louisa Tetrazzini, an Italian operatic soprano.