Millions of years of living fossils! How much is the Chinese horseshoe crab per jin? Is horseshoe crab a protected animal? Can Chinese horseshoe crab eat?

Chinese horseshoe crab has high medicinal value, at the same time, it also has very delicious ingredients, which is very suitable for friends who love food. So let's go and see how much the Chinese horseshoe crab costs per jin. How to eat Chinese horseshoe crab?

How much is the Chinese horseshoe crab per jin

The current market price of horseshoe crab fish is about 200 murals and 300 yuan per jin.

Chinese horseshoe crab national second-class protection of animals, prohibit any unit or individual illegal hunting, acquisition, processing and carrying, can not eat! Now capture is illegal in China, except for the research and production of Limulus amebocyte lysate.

Limulus appeared hundreds of millions of years ago and can reproduce. On the one hand, it has strong reproductive ability, on the other hand, it has poor taste, and young Chinese horseshoe crab is prone to allergy and toxic shock after eating. Limulus has been rarely hunted by people because of its special physiological and toxicological properties. However, in recent years, because some people have not really realized the consequences of eating horseshoe crab, there are still people buying and selling in the black market.

What is the medicinal value of Limulus sinensis?

Horseshoe crab (horseshoecrab) is an animal as old as trilobites (now only fossils). The ancestors of horseshoe crabs appeared in the Paleozoic Devonian in the geological history, when dinosaurs had not yet risen, primitive fish had just emerged, and with the passage of time, their contemporaries either evolved or became extinct. Only horseshoe crabs have retained their primitive and ancient appearance since they were born more than 400 million years ago, so they are called "living fossils".

How much is the Chinese horseshoe crab per jin? What is the medicinal value of Limulus sinensis?

The earliest horseshoe crab fossils were found in Ordovician (505 million-438 million years ago), and horseshoe crab fossils similar to modern horseshoe crab appeared in Jurassic (208 million-144 million years ago).

It has high medicinal value.

In the 1850s, scientists found a clotting agent called Limulusamoebocytelysate,LAL in the grayish-blue blood of horseshoe crabs, which reacts with fungi and endotoxins and condenses a thick layer of gel around these invaders. The results are obvious: it is a simple and foolproof method to detect impurities in drugs and medical products. At present, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has allowed five companies to produce and sell Limulus amebocyte lysate, and the US pharmaceutical company CharlesRiver is one of them. They extracted the blood of horseshoe crabs and made them into reagents, which can detect bacteria and other pollutants as low as 1/1000000000000. It is worth mentioning that horseshoe crabs do not die from blood extraction.

Can the crab crab fish eat?

Horseshoe crab fish can be eaten, but it is a state-protected animal and is no longer allowed to eat.

Now, except for the research and production of Limulus amebocyte lysate, it is illegal to catch Limulus fish in China. Chinese horseshoe crab has high medicinal value. Meat-pungent, salty, flat, heat-clearing and detoxification, can clear eyes, treat glaucoma and vesicular sores. Shell-salty, flat, has the effect of promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, detoxification; contains bromine, iron, zinc, copper, nickel, manganese, calcium, titanium, chlorine, sulfur, silicon, aluminum, magnesium and other elements; main treatment of fall injury, traumatic bleeding, scald, sore furuncle. Tail-salty, warm, has astringent hemostatic effect, used for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis, sore furuncle.

Fishermen who catch Chinese horseshoe crabs usually catch females first, because Chinese horseshoe crabs are also nicknamed "mandarin ducks in the sea", which means that they usually appear in pairs of males and females. A female horseshoe crab acting alone can generally attract many male horseshoe crabs. And usually the larger female Chinese horseshoe crab will carry the male, the female horseshoe crab fish are larger than the male horseshoe crab fish. In the world of horseshoe crabs, female horseshoe crabs are very rare.

Introduction to the eating method of Limulus

Steamed Chinese horseshoe crab

Ingredient: Chinese horseshoe crab 1000g

Excipients: salt 10g

Steps:

1. Buy fresh Chinese horseshoe crabs and clean them up after slaughtering.

2. Rinse the Chinese horseshoe crab with running water, put the washed Chinese horseshoe crab on a large plate, sprinkle with a layer of salt, and put it in a steamer.

3. Steam for 15 minutes after boiling.

Second, stir-fry Limulus meat

Ingredient: 1 Chinese horseshoe crab

Excipients: the right amount of oil, spicy fresh dew, monosodium glutamate, ginger, onion, garlic, red pepper, light soy sauce

Steps:

1. Buy fresh horseshoe crab fish in the market.

2. After killing the horseshoe crab, take off the meat and don't want the shell.

3. Wash the meat taken off.

4. Put the horseshoe crab on the board and cut it into small pieces with a knife, not too small.

5. Cut some more ingredients; sliced ginger, sliced onion, garlic, red pepper.

6. Brush the pot clean, put some raw oil, stir-dry the ginger slices, and add the Limulus meat.

7. Stir-fry the Limulus meat dry, put in the onion slices, and stir-fry.

8. Pour the garlic and red pepper into the pan, stir-fry into MSG (right amount), then stir-fry into spicy fresh dew (right amount) and turn a few more times. Start the pot.