The Importance of Poultry Meat in Medicine: A Review

Abstract

The animal products, such as meat, milk, skin, blood, honey, and urine, have medicinal value for human diseases. Due to having high-quality components, poultry meat has therapeutic value. The present review aimed to describe the medicinal values of poultry meat for individuals who consume it during their life. Most poultry meat is classified as white meat, which contains lower fat and higher protein, compared with the meat of ovine, bovine, and pig. This feature of poultry meat (lower fat and higher protein) helps its consumers to have a normal physiological function of different organ systems. Moreover, it prevents many non-infectious diseases, including overweight, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases. Selenium and low contents of carcinogenic substances (myoglobin, heme iron, and saturated fat) in poultry meat also prevent different types of cancers. Poultry meat is also recommended to avoid anemia, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes. Dietary proteins, vitamins, and minerals in chicken meat are used for anti-aging, developing muscle and bone, improving the immune system, and increasing brain function. Traditionally, poultry is recommended as a supportive treatment for respiratory diseases, such as the common cold. Thus, consumption of poultry meat, especially chickens, up to 300g/once a week is recommended to prevent and reduce the risks of gastrointestinal cancers such as oesophageal cancer. Generally, regular consumption of poultry meat has health benefits for humans to prevent and reduce the risk of different diseases as chicken meat is a rich source of nutrition that can enhance the immunity system and tackle human disease risk factors. Keywords: Consumption, Health benefits, Meat, Poultry

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“…In fact, meat is rich in essential nutrients, it provides proteins, vitamins and minerals, which all are crucial for human health (Shah et al, 2014;Geldenhuys et al, 2015). Among the various types of meat, poultry stands out for its advantageous nutritional composition that makes it highly valued for healthy dietary practices (Jilo & Hasan, 2022). It has a lower fat content in contrast to red meat, and is predomi-nantly composed of unsaturated fatty acids (Saleh et al, 2020;Hailemariam et al, 2022).…”