Edible bird's nest is a famous and nutritious food which is well-known among Chinese community. It is made from the saliva of swiftlets. It is consumed for various reasons, including as health tonic, complexion enhancer, asthma alleviator and immune system enhancer. It contains both macronutrients and micronutirents such as carbohydrates, glycoproteins, calcium, sodium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, iron and others. To date, a number of studies have reported on the health benefits of EBN consumption. Hence, this review describes the various medicinal values of EBN.
Edible Bird Nest (EBN) is a bird made product and its one of the most expensive animal products consumed by human nowadays due to high nutritional values and medicinal properties. Market processed EBN found the presence of mites, fungal spores and feather strands using scanning electron microscope (SEM). Mite was the common cause of anaphylaxis. Indeed, mite are heat resistant and thus can elicit allergic reaction even the food has been cooked. Therefore, the enzyme technology is applied in the current study on EBN to remove most of the pathogen. The results obtained in this study were attributable to the fact that enzyme treatment EBN is added value product and safer for human consumption as compared to that of the market processed EBN.
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