How to choose fresh and safe chicken meat: tips

She is healthy and is ideal for the diet. But only if it is fresh and grown without the use of drugs. It turns out that an extremely popular dietary product may contain many harmful agents: antibiotics, hormones, which fed the chicken and dangerous bacteria if the meat correctly stored.

In order not to fall for scams tricks, we recommend that you remember a few simple rules of choice of chicken:

1. Chicken should not be slippery and sticky, its meat should be sufficiently elastic. Try to press your finger on the carcass if the chicken immediately regained its volume, so it is fresh. And if a dent is long, so the chicken stale. And if the bird really hard, then most likely, it pumped water, and you are buying water instead of meat.

2. Chicken skin should be intact. Be sure to check the integrity of the skin under the legs and wings.

3. Color chicken meat should be pink. If the chicken with blue spots, then there are two options - either to the bird died of the disease or its properly treated. In any case, there can not be.

4. Yellow chicken - most likely too old, and its meat will be tough and tasteless. Age chicken also can be determined by the tip of the sternum. The old bird he stiff and hardly bent, the young - elastic and flexible.

5. Fresh chicken is practically odorless. Do not buy the meat in the marinade with spices. Spices interrupt the smell of decay, so often in the stores marinated chicken that stale and are not suitable for sale.

6. If you buy the chicken in the store, be sure to pay attention to the fact that the packaging was intact.

7. Do not buy frozen chicken, because it is almost impossible to determine quality.

8. Chicken meat is better to be prepared and stored in a refrigerator. If you still bought a chicken for future use, store it in the freezer and thaw on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator.