How a bird’s nest is graded has a big influence on its price – our AAA nests demand high prices because they are of the highest quality. Most sites will give their best nests a AAA rating. Whenever you’re browsing a website for bird’s nests, examine their highest-grade nests very closely. These ratings grade how well the birds’ nests have been prepared before packaging them. There is a very meticulous process where each individual birds nest is cleansed, pruned, and purified by hand until they are ready for human consumption. Golden Nest uses the traditional hand-washing method to clean our authentic nests, even though this process takes an incredible amount of hours to complete. Only about 30% of our total harvest makes it into production by the third examination because of how strict we are with nest quality. All of our production plants are in the US and are FDA-approved.