Nutritive value of Meat

Meat is a very nutritious food. It is almost fully digestible. It is appealing to the eyes and pleasing to the sense of olfaction. The nutritive value of meat is attributed to its abundant high-quality proteins which provides all the essential amino acids and various micro nutrients in proper proportion to the human beings, essential fatty acids, some important minerals and B-complex group of vitamins. It remains to be an economically important, nutritionally valuable and organoleptically delicious palate to the consumer. In case of poultry meat, not only the meat from commercial broilers but also the meat obtained from native chicken having high nutritive value and having unique strong flavour, firm and hard texture and lower fat content (Rajkumar et al., 2016; Zhao et al., 2007; Chen et al., 2008) as a result the demand for native chicken increasing day by day especially in villages to meet the nutritional requirement of body.