Conventional use and sustainable valorization of spent egg-laying hens as functional foods and biomaterials: A review

Abstract Spent hen are egg-laying hens reaching the end of their laying cycles; billions of spent hens are produced globally each year. Differences in people’s attitudes towards spent hen as foods lead to their different fates among countries. While spent hens are consumed as raw or processed meat p...

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Main Authors: Hongbing Fan, Jianping Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-04-01
Series:Bioresources and Bioprocessing
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40643-022-00529-z