Background:
Poultry is considered a healthy choice because of its relatively favorable fat profile. The availability of chicken fat, present mostly in the skin is limited due to prevailing dressing practice and dumping of poultry sleeves (Skin+Feathers). Harvesting of this fat present in the skin is essential for its judicious utilization otherwise nuisance to the environment. The demand for value-added products from poultry waste such as deserted poultry sleeves prevails to make the poultry processing economically viable.:
Technology Details:
Here, a technique for harvesting chicken skin fat from poultry sleeves is being presented. The technology encompasses the separation of skin from deserted poultry sleeves and an optimized rendering regime with the motive of the utilization of left-out defatted skin residues. The detailed physic-chemical, microbiological, and nutritional quality of extracted fat have been determined and found useful. Further, the utility of this low-cost chicken skin fat in the preparation of convenience meat products has been established. The technique presents the way of the utilization of poultry waste viz: poultry sleeves for economic and environmental viability of poultry processing.