{"id":101,"date":"2007-11-24T06:57:38","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T13:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/24\/readers-question-green-chicken-meat\/"},"modified":"2007-11-24T06:57:38","modified_gmt":"2007-11-24T13:57:38","slug":"readers-question-green-chicken-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2007\/11\/24\/readers-question-green-chicken-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"Reader&#8217;s Question: Green chicken meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hi Jackie! <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Love your column! Here&#8217;s my question: Have you ever found GREEN meat in your roast chicken? If so &#8211; do you throw the whole bird out &#8211; or just pick out the green meat. I understand that the bones can make the meat dark or brown &#8211; but what&#8217;s up with green? I&#8217;ve had it happen twice in homegrown organic birds and two of my friends have had it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mindy Wickham<br \/>\nRichville, NY <\/em><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say that I&#8217;ve every had green meat on my roast  chicken.\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably only a chemical reaction of some kind,  natural in nature, sort of like how ham slices get a fluorescent  sheen to them sometime.\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t throw out the roast chicken, but  just pick the green out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you know what the bird had eaten  and it wasn&#8217;t a chemical picked up in the feed.\u00a0 One tip:\u00a0 sometimes  overcooking poultry makes ugly colors next to the bones; try  roasting a little shorter time and see if that helps. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Jackie! Love your column! Here&#8217;s my question: Have you ever found GREEN meat in your roast chicken? If so &#8211; do you throw the whole bird out &#8211; or just pick out the green meat. I understand that the bones can make the meat dark or brown &#8211; but what&#8217;s up with green? I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}