Nutritional food is highly essential for a healthy physical structure. These foods can be obtained from meat and poultry. Meat and poultry are the edible muscle, fat, and organs of animals. Meat comes from grass eating animals and amphibians. Poultry are the meat from birds like chickens, ducks etc. Due to their high protein content they are taken as food. Animals that are generally used for production of meat are cattle, buffaloes, sheep and goat, pigs and poultry. Rabbit meat is also used as a speciality in Kerala and some other States. Meat from chickens, lambs and muttons, buffaloes, cattle etc. are predominant in India. The major part for meat supply goes to buffaloes and beef in India. Eggs are dynamic nutritional food containing enormous protein, carbohydrate and fat. They are consumed boiled or omelets. They are available in various types as chicken eggs, duck eggs, ostrich eggs, quail eggs etc.
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