This Company Wants You To Grind Chicken Bones And Eat

Grinding chicken bones can reduce the environmental costs of eating poultry (credit: SuperGround)

If you like to eat chicken, you probably consider it a delicious fried dinner or a hot chicken nugget.

Either way, you wouldn’t want to bite into a chicken bone.

However, Finnish startup SuperGround says it has invented a way to get more meat out of chicken. This, as the name implies, means crushing bones and incorporating them into products like buildings and meatballs.

Not everyone likes it, but the reality is that it consumes more chicken per chicken, which reduces its ecological value per kilogram of meat.

According to SuperGround, the feed production line can produce up to 30% more poultry feed with the same number of chickens. And this is without the need to grow a chicken farm.

Food companies are trying to achieve cost control and efficiency, but consumer demand and stricter regulations are putting increasing pressure on companies to meet their ambitious sustainability goals.

“Therefore, consumers can facilitate more sustainable daily food options without changing their diet or spending heavily on sustainable alternatives,” said SuperGround president, one of the investors, Tuomas Koskinen. Company.

Chicken nuggets made by grinding up chicken bones (credit: SuperGround)

Santo Vekel, CEO of SuperGround, founder and inventor of the solution, explained that various feed ingredients were evaluated and tested before the chicken was selected.

“Chickens are one of the greenest land animals and consume the least amount of land and water resources,” he said.

“About 35-40% of the net weight of chickens is bone after removing the intestines and feathers, which is perfect for our process,” he said.