Cooked chicken sometimes has a fishy flavor, which can be attributed to various factors including cross-contamination or the chicken's diet. Increasingly, chickens are being fed fish meal and fish oil to reduce costs, altering their natural flavor. This shift results in a distinct fishy taste due to high levels of unsaturated oil found in the poultry's fat. While chicken with a fishy taste is generally safe to eat, marinating or seasoning can help mask the unusual flavor profile.
However, in an effort (most likely) to cut down on costs, there's been a shift to feeding poultry a medley of fish meal and fish oil.
Research has shown that this causes the meat to take on a fishy funk since the fish meal boasts incredibly high concentrations of unsaturated oil.
Collection
[
|
...
]