Recipe of the Week

Health Benefits of a Good Bowl of Chicken Soup🐔

Preparing a bowl of chicken soup for a loved one when they’re sick has been a common practice throughout the world for centuries. Today, generations from virtually every culture sweat to the benefit of chicken soup. 

Chicken soup as a therapy can be traced back to 60 A.D. and Pedanius Dioscorides, an army surgeon who served under the Roman emperor Nero, and whose five-volume medical encyclopedia was consulted by early healers for more than a millennium. But the origins of chicken soup go back thousands of years earlier, to ancient China.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), chicken enters the Spleen, Stomach, and Kidney channels. It also warm and sweet in nature and can easily combine with various food groups. Eating chicken is known for its ability to provide energy, nourish blood, and build our body essence (jing).Good for our elders, a recovery period after a good workout, suffering from colds and flus, as well as to aid in fertility support, the chicken is often a meat of choice.

• Strengthen your immune system

• Aid in rehydration

• Improve blood circulation

• Promote gut health

Read more! The Reason Chicken Soup Makes Your Feel Better, According to Science

Eat local! Willowtree Farm in Port Perry, Ontario offers top quality meat from seven different meat farms in Ontario. The chickens are free-range, fed non-GMO grains, antibiotic and hormone free.