What is dark meat? (chicken)?!


Question: What is dark meat!? (chicken)!?
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On a chicken it is the thighs and legs and wings!. The breasts would be white meat!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

Dark meat tends to be the stronger, working muscles which get a higher blood flow!. In a chicken, that's legs!. In a goose, the breast meat is dark since the wings do so much work!.


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Janie Girl (and other who said it) are wrong-- wings of a chicken are WHITE meat, as is the breast!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

their is a difference between dark meat and red meat all poultry (chicken and turkey) has dark and white meat the dark meat is simply the meat dark in color hence "dark meat" red meat is beefWww@FoodAQ@Com

The breast is white meat!. The rest is mostly dark meat!. The legs, thighs, wings, and around the backWww@FoodAQ@Com

The slower muscles make up the dark meat!.

The MuseWww@FoodAQ@Com

thighs,wings the only part on a chicken thats white is the breastWww@FoodAQ@Com





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