gizzard
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Like its fellow enantiornithines, and unlike modern birds, it does not appear to have a digestive organ called a gizzard, or gastric mill, that helped it crush up its food.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 5, 2024
Before anything enters a bird's gizzard, an organ for grinding up food, the proventriculus secretes digestive enzymes and hydrochloric acid to break down meals.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2023
In Googling, I see that’s called the gizzard, and it is acidic.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2023
She had used blood, liver, bones and gizzard because they were affordable, then giblets got too expensive, and she replaced them with fried eggs.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2022
To grind things up with, in her gizzard.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
Moses also took after his mother and his aunt with his love of cooking, she said; his specialty was fried chicken gizzards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2025
Many species of birds purposefully consume small stones and grit, which collect in their gizzards – the second part of their stomachs – and help the birds digest their food by pulverizing it.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 22, 2023
The gizzards, kidneys, livers and guts shrink to lighten the load for the trans-Pacific journey.
From New York Times ● Sep. 20, 2022
There’s also a separate cooler for skewers — short rib, chicken heart and gizzards.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2022
Grit: As chickens do not have teeth, they eat sand and small stones to fill their gizzards.
From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones
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