How much is the price of dried / fresh sea cucumbers of "four seafood" per jin? How do you eat it? Who can't eat?

Abalone, ginseng, wings and belly are the "four major seafood" in Chinese eyes. Among them, sea cucumbers have been valuable food and medicines since ancient times. Every autumn is the time when sea cucumbers are on the market. How much is the price of sea cucumbers? How do you eat it? Who can't eat?

I. introduction of sea cucumbers

Sea cucumbers, also known as sea rats, sea cucumbers, sashimi, sand, etc., generally live up to 8000 meters by the sea, and they are marine echinoderms. In the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Zhao Xuemin in the Qing Dynasty, it is recorded as follows: because the medicinal properties of sea cucumbers are warm, they can recuperate the five internal organs and prolong life, so they are called sea cucumbers.

Varieties of sea cucumbers

1. Sea cucumber

Sea cucumber, commonly known as "sand clover", has a body length of 20ml and 40cm. The body is soft, cylindrical in shape, black-brown, yellow-brown or gray-white. Raised on the back, there are 6 conical spines of different sizes and irregular arrangement. Sea cucumbers are of excellent quality in sea cucumbers. The output of wild sea cucumbers is very limited, and most of them are cultured sea cucumbers in the market.

Origin: Dalian / Shandong / Japan / Korea / Russia and other places.

2. Red ginseng

Red ginseng is often light red, orange, yellow and so on. It is named red ginseng because of its bright color. It lives in deep water with a depth of about 100-350 meters, and its growth cycle is 1-2 years longer than ordinary sea cucumbers. Its meat is thicker, spines are many and slender. Red ginseng is also rich in red ginseng in the northern part of the Yellow Sea, but with the increasing pollution in the sea area, Chinese red ginseng is basically extinct.

Origin: northeast Asia (northern Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, North Sea) and Russia's Vladivostok, Bering Strait, there are also a small amount of distribution in Alaska.

3. Golden sea cucumber

Golden sea cucumber is a kind of sea cucumber, the color is relatively light, and the dried sea cucumber is yellow after processing.

Origin: America

4. Black claw ginseng

Black claw ginseng is widely distributed, but the yield is low, the nutritional value is rich, and the protein content is 54.31%.

Origin: Pacific coast of South America

5. Arctic sea cucumbers (Arctic cucumbers)

Arctic sea cucumber comes from the North Atlantic Ocean of Canada, where the highest surface water temperature is no more than 14 °. It freezes in winter, and there are few people all the year round, and there is no pollution from industry, agriculture and human activities. Sea cucumbers grow in such a good environment, there are no pollutants in the body, and because of the long growth time, the nutrition and health care value is very high.

Source of raw materials: central and North America

Third, how much is the price of sea cucumbers per jin?

1. Price of fresh sea cucumbers

Fresh sea cucumbers are mainly wild and farmed, the price of artificially farmed sea cucumbers is about 100 yuan to 200 yuan per jin, and the wild price is about 400 yuan to 600 yuan.

2. Price of dried sea cucumbers

The main varieties of dried sea cucumbers are light-dried sea cucumbers, ready-to-eat sea cucumbers, salt-dried sea cucumbers, freeze-dried sea cucumbers, the specific prices are as follows:

Variety

Price / jin

Light dried sea cucumber

3500-7000

Dried sea cucumber with salt

1500

Dried sea cucumber with sugar

1000-2000

Ready-to-eat sea cucumber

400-800

Freeze-dried sea cucumber

eight hundred

PS: from the variety of dried sea cucumbers, it is better to choose light-dried sea cucumbers at the time of purchase. According to the salt content, light-dried sea cucumbers are divided into top, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades. Among them, the salt content of top sea cucumbers will not exceed 8%.

Fourth, how to eat sea cucumbers nutritious?

Sea cucumbers have medicinal and edible value. There are five main ways to eat it.

1. Boil and eat: in the morning, when eating sea cucumbers on an empty stomach, you can use hot water or hot water to scald the sea cucumbers. Just eat the whole sea cucumbers dipped in honey, delicious and other sauces. This method of eating is most beneficial for the human body to absorb its nutrients.

2. Eat with steam: after steaming, put it on the plate and add various seasonings to eat.

3. Stew: put meat or ribs and sea cucumbers together to make soup. This method is also very nutritious.

4. Stir-fry: stir-fry seasonings such as sea cucumbers and spring onions and ginger in the pan, although this method will lose some nutrition, but the taste is very good.

5. Fried: fried directly into the pan, but this is a relatively unhealthy way to eat, losing the original nutritional value of sea cucumbers.

Note: in fact, if you want to eat sea cucumbers to achieve health care effect, the best way is the simpler the better, the more complete nutrition preservation, it is recommended to take it on an empty stomach in the morning. Choose sea cucumber supplement is best to adhere to a long time, all aspects of the body will have obvious results, it is recommended that adults one or two days a sea cucumber on the line, children should reduce the amount.

5. How to choose dried sea cucumbers?

Unlike other products, sea cucumbers cannot tell the good from the bad by their appearance or pictures alone. Mainly pay attention to the following points:

Place of Origin

"Materia Medica from the new" pointed out: "Sea cucumbers, the production of Liaohai is good." Among the major producing areas of sea cucumbers in Shandong, Fujian and Liaoning, the sea cucumbers produced in Dalian, Liaoning are of better quality.

Appearance

Dried sea cucumber thorns are stout, tall and straight, with different thickness. The bottom foot is short and dense, and the mouth is big and firm for good sea cucumbers. The color is grayish brown, yellowish brown, dark and light is normal, too black may have additives, pay attention to whether abnormal.

smell

Smell no obvious peculiar smell, there is a faint fishy smell. Gently licking the belly of sea cucumbers has a light salty taste, while salt-dried sea cucumbers are very salty and sugar-dried sea cucumbers are sweet.

Dryness degree

Dried sea cucumbers do not add sugar or salt, the body of dried sea cucumbers is dry and hard, and the spines of dried sea cucumbers will stick to their hands, and their hands will not be broken.

Foaming rate

Good sea cucumbers are not easy to break after foaming correctly, the meat is thick and elastic, and the length foaming ratio is more than 2 times.

Who can't eat sea cucumbers?

1. Rheumatoid and ventilated people are not suitable to eat.

2. Children eat sea cucumbers as little as possible.

3. People with colds and fever are not suitable to eat.

4. People with weak spleen and stomach and diarrhea are not suitable to eat.

5. People who are too angry are not suitable to eat.

6. People who are allergic to seafood are not suitable to eat.

7. Patients with kidney disease should pay attention to the amount of intake.

Sea cucumber is a relatively high protein food, but also can play a role in strengthening the body, but also can prevent disease, delay aging, the right amount to eat is no problem, but still according to their own physique to choose the right amount.