Chicken has higher nutritional value. Chicken is rich in protein and contains unsaturated fatty acids, which is a good protein food for the elderly and patients with cardiovascular diseases. It is more appropriate to eat chicken or chicken soup as a tonic after illness or postpartum.

Duck meat is an excellent dish on the table, and it is also an excellent food for people to supplement. The nutritional value of duck meat is similar to that of chicken. However, in the view of Chinese medicine, ducks eat mostly aquatic food, so their meat tastes sweet and cold, and enters the lung, stomach and kidney meridians, which has the functions of nourishing, nourishing stomach, tonifying kidney, removing tuberculosis, steaming bones, eliminating edema, stopping dysentery, relieving cough and resolving phlegm. Duck is more delicious than chicken, but its nutritional value is not as good as chicken.