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Offline aLptHW4k4y

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Grey chicken liver
« on: January 29, 2012, 08:13:32 pm »
I have some completely grey chicken liver, do you think this is ok to eat?
I bought it like this, only two livers are grey the others look normal.

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Re: Grey chicken liver
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2012, 01:10:22 am »
I'll venture a guess that you got a batch of chicken livers that didn't come from chickens who were fed their natural diet. A lot of places here label their chicken meat as natural, free-range, cage-free, or organic. All this means in my mind is that the chickens are outside on bare dirt and get thrown organically-raised chicken scratch with corn and soy.
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Re: Grey chicken liver
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2012, 04:08:24 am »
Yes that's possible. This one is organic but I'm not sure if it's free-range.
I threw it away, but I'm still curious as to why would liver become grey. Somewhere I read it's possibly because of oxidation.

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Re: Grey chicken liver
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2012, 12:17:06 pm »
I would NEVER eat chicken liver, unless I could verify MYSELF what those chickens are fed daily.  Chickens are usually just grainfed, even the "free-range" ones.  I've had definite negative results from chicken livers, and I feel sure it's a direct result of their diet.  No other species' liver has given me problems.

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Re: Grey chicken liver
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2012, 04:48:23 pm »
Ok thanks for the warning. The reason I'm eating chicken liver (I rotate it with beef liver) is because it seems to have a more balanced micronutrient content. 100g of beef liver has like 1000% of the RDA for copper for example, and I'm hesitant to get so much minerals.

 

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