Showing Food Chicken
| General Information | |||||||||||
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| Name | Chicken | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Gallus gallus | ||||||||||
| Description | The chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) is a domesticated fowl, a subspecies of the Red Junglefowl. As one of the most common and widespread domestic animals, with a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other species of bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, consuming both their meat and their eggs. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00329 | ||||||||||
| Picture | Not Available | ||||||||||
| Classification | |||||||||||
| Group | Animal foods | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Poultry | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy | |||||||||||
| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Metazoa | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Chordata | ||||||||||
| Class | Aves | ||||||||||
| Order | Galliformes | ||||||||||
| Family | Phasianidae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Gallus | ||||||||||
| Species | gallus | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
| External Links | |||||||||||
| ITIS ID | 176086 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Chicken | ||||||||||
| Composition | |||||||||||
| Compounds |
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| Macronutrients |
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| References | |||||||||||
| Content Reference | — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. — Saxholt, E., et al. 'Danish food composition databank, revision 7.' Department of Nutrition, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (2008). | ||||||||||