What is a sea urchin? How much is the price per jin?

Do you know what a sea urchin is? Perhaps many friends do not know, listen to this name should be living in the sea, so, what is the sea urchin in the end, the price is how much per jin?

What is a sea urchin?

1. Sea urchins are animals, a class of echinoderms and invertebrates living in the shallow waters of the sea, closely related to starfish and sea cucumbers; the body is spherical, disk-shaped or heart-shaped, with green, olive, brown, purple and black colors and thorns.

2. Most sea urchins like to live in rocks, coral reefs and hard seafloors, mainly relying on tube feet and thorn movements. China is mainly distributed along the coasts of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, Liaodong Peninsula and the northern part of Shandong Peninsula. to the south to the shallow waters of Zhejiang and Fujian, as well as Zhoushan Islands and the Taiwan Strait.

3. Sea urchins have a wide range of food habits, which can be carnivorous, feeding on gastropods and other echinoderms, or plant-eating, feeding on all kinds of seaweed; if they are rich in food, they may only move 10 centimeters a day, and when food is scarce, it can move 50 centimeters a day.

4. Eating sea urchins is mainly to eat its gonads, that is, the yellow thing inside, with a total of five pieces, usually eaten raw with vinegar and mustard, which tastes very delicious; it is a hair product, but if it is not in the stage of onset, and it is not allergic to sea urchins, it can be eaten.

5. Sea urchins can not only be eaten fresh, but also a valuable traditional Chinese medicine. The site of the medicine is its calcareous bone shell, which has the effect of soft firmness, relieving phlegm and detumescence. It is often used for phlegm nucleus, asthma, rib pain and stomachache.

Second, how much is the sea urchin per jin?

1, the price of sea urchins is relatively expensive, generally dozens of yuan per jin, better ones are more expensive, and affected by the origin, quality, sales area, supply and demand, the price is not the same, if it is fresh wild purple sea urchin yellow, the price is estimated to be about 400 yuan per jin, if it is a series of sea urchin delicacies, such as sea urchin steamed eggs, seafood sushi, sea urchin porridge, the price is also different.

2, if you want to buy sea urchins fresh or not, first of all, it depends on the extent of the prickles all over the sea urchin, the greater the range of movement, the better the freshness; secondly, touch the mouth of the sea urchin with the tip of a screwdriver to see if it will contract rapidly. The rapid contraction of the mouth means it is very fresh.

3. After buying a sea urchin, deal with it like this: cut a round opening from the mouth with scissors, then the sea urchin is full of liquid, remove the liquid and the black part (intestines and stomach), wash it repeatedly with clean water, and wait for the yellow part to be washed clean. You can serve it on the table.

Summary: sea urchin is a kind of echinoderm, sea urchin class invertebrates living in marine shallow waters, can be eaten fresh, mainly eat its gonads, generally dipped in vinegar and mustard to eat raw, eat very delicious; its price is relatively expensive, the specific price depends on the price of the hotel.