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Unique nutritional and organoleptic properties
A perfectly healthy organ
A foie gras is a liver that has accumulated a large quantity of lipids through lipogenesis or the transformation of maize carbohydrate and fatty acids.
This is a natural phenomenon and is in no way a sign of disease.
The lipid accumulation process is not a pathological condition.
This means that the integrity of hepatic cells is preserved, as opposed to degenerated cells from a cirrhosis-affected human liver for instance (carbohydrate degradation due to alcohol).
Moreover, this is a totally reversible phenomenon.
Some birds spontaneously develop some kind of bulimic behaviours in order to build up energy reserves.
A foie gras from a fattened web-footed bird is consequently a perfectly healthy organ.
This is a point which commonly causes confusion since, from a human perspective, fattened liver is a pathology.
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