Study on The Main Ingredients of The Three Species of Edible Swift's Nest of Yunnan Province

Edible swifts nest was made from the saliva that stick on the nest of swift of Apodidae.1.The protein contents of the three species of esculent swifts nest respectively 45.28%,47.78% and 42.21%,and theirs essential amino acids were 15.09%,14.37% and 12.22%.2.The carbohydrate contents were 11.45%,10.63% and 17.92%.Fat were 0.76%,0.18% and 0.34%.3.They still contained 24 kinds of macro minerals and trace elements,and three kinds of vitamin.