What is the Nutrition in Broiler-chicken bones ?
Bones are full of minerals, mainly calcium but other minerals as well. I’m a big advocate of bone stock – put your bones and water in a stock pot with some vinegar and let it sit in the fridge overnight (before cooking) to leach out more minerals. There is something about the cold that does it even more than the heat, I think the heat fairly quickly kills the enzymes and deactivates the vinegar (end product doesn’t taste vinegary) and letting it sit overnight in the fridge allows the vinegar to do it’s thing in full force. Remember to stick your bones in the freezer and add it to the next stock pot also. I keep doing it till I have too many for the pot. Especially chicken bones (would be really great if they were organic) Once upon a time there was a dietary supplement recommended by Edgar Cayce called Calcios made from crushed chicken bones. It’s no longer available in the same form. But I’ve tried to replicate it by snapping chicken bones and cooking them with vinegar til they just a
