What is a light dish? is it an oyster?

We often see a kind of dried product called light vegetables in the market, but it has nothing to do with vegetables. The appearance of light vegetables is more like oysters, so what is light vegetables? is it oysters?

What is the light dish? is it an oyster?

Light vegetable is a kind of seafood, not oysters, its scientific name is mussel, also known as Qingkou, Haihong, etc., dried products made from cooked mussels are called light vegetables.

Second, the basic introduction of light dishes

Mussel, known as mussel, is a bivalve mollusk of the mussel family and genus Mytilus. Mussels live on coastal rocks and grow under fishermen's fishing boats.

Light vegetables are a kind of animals that reproduce and grow very fast, and there are many in coastal areas, so the price is also very cheap, and it is a kind of seafood often eaten by many fishermen.

The main distribution areas of light vegetables are Shandong, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan and other coastal provinces, light vegetables can be cooked, steamed, can also be peeled and fried with other ingredients, the taste is very delicious.

Light vegetables also have high nutritional value, which contains eight essential amino acids, such as valine and leucine, which are needed by human body.

III. Basic introduction of oysters

Oyster is a kind of mollusk of oyster family and oyster genera. it is the largest cultured shellfish in the world. Oyster is also one of the most resistant aquatic animals. It can adapt to high and low temperatures and can survive for 1-2 weeks in the open air.

Oysters are distributed all over the world, mainly in Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong, Guangxi, Liaoning, Zhejiang and other regions in China.

As a kind of high-quality mariculture shellfish, oyster meat contains a variety of amino acids, glycogen, a large number of active trace elements and small molecular compounds, and its shell contains a lot of calcium carbonate.