Poultry farmers in Nakuru County are excited by the high demand of chicken legs, driven by the assumption that they contain the highest amount of collagen that is assumed to slow down aging.
The secretary for poultry farmers’ Michael Wachira said it started by women demanding to be sold only chicken legs without the rest of the meat, and they were willing to offer as high as Sh 5 per leg.
Speaking today during a press conference at Nakuru city, he said they are not only excited by the ‘new discovery that chicken legs have a capacity of increasing skin elasticity,’ hence slowing down the aging process.
He claimed that the legs are now selling as high as sh.20 per pair and the response was still high. He added that the demand didn’t seem to discriminate the type of chicken since the buyers buy both broilers and the indigenous chicken.
Wachira said the farmers in the country have noted that the market for food stuffs was being driven by health and beauty concerns unlike in the past when people ate to simply fill their stomachs.
He gave an example of yellow maize which was also in demand because there are claims that it has less glucose or sucrose, which was good for diabetes patients, and for people wanting to lose weight.
He urged the scientists at the ministry of agriculture to categorize food stuffs according to their health and beauty capacities to enable farmers grow the needs and wants of the market.
In addition, he said the chicken legs are boiled in water and drunk as soup and some also eat the meat on the legs plus the bones.
However, a skin specialist in Nakuru town, Harun Kerama said there are numerous un- substantiated and unverified claims on social media, and it was difficult to confirm their veracity until research was carried out.
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