12 Sep 2006
Black-Bone Silky Fowl: An odd bird with meat to crow about

Black-Bone Silky FowlIt may be nutritious, but what a look! There's no way you could get American consumers to eat that, no matter how good tasting!

Reminds me of the nutria problem. They're a major introduced pest in Louisiana, and they look like large rats with orange teeth! Part of the control effort has been to encourage people to eat them - they're allegedly pretty tasty, like rabbit. But despite several noted Cajun chefs developing nutria recipes it's not quite caught on. And I'd venture a prediction that it never will.

Chemists have developed a simple and effective method to measure the levels of carnosine in chicken, and have used it to show that unusually high levels of carnosine exist in Black-Bone Silky Fowl. This odd-looking chicken is revered in traditional Chinese medicine, and the finding may help to establish a scientific basis for long-standing beliefs about the healthful nature of Black-Bone Silky Fowl.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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