Will your future meals include food made of chicken feathers?

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  • A researcher in Thailand is working to transform the protein found in chicken feathers into some kind of edible food.
  • His work was inspired by the fact that chicken feathers are almost always thrown out during chicken processing.
  • With millions of tons of feathers discarded around the world every year, finding a way to get something more out of them could be a big win.

Chicken is one of the most-eaten animals on the planet. It's prepared in roughly a million different ways and is enjoyed all over the world. That being said, processing a chicken leaves some inedible leftovers, and those bits and pieces are often discarded... but what if they didn't have to be? What if we could use chicken feathers, which are discarded by the millions of tons every year, to produce even more food? That's what 30-year-old Sorowut Kittibanthorn, a researcher from Thailand, is trying to figure out.

You see, chicken feathers aren't just wispy strands of nothingness. They actually contain protein, and if that protein could be extracted or processed in a way that turned it into a food or food additive, it would mean we're using even more from each bird and reducing waste in the process.


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Will your future meals include food made of chicken feathers? originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 10:03:52 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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