How to select, bubble, eat and preserve the dried sea cucumbers on the market? How much is the market price per jin? What is the efficacy?

Dried sea cucumbers are processed products of sea cucumbers. Although the nutritional value of dried sea cucumbers is lower than that of fresh sea cucumbers, their nutrients are more easily absorbed by the human body than fresh sea cucumbers. How can dried sea cucumbers be selected, foamed, eaten and preserved? How much is the market price per jin? What is the efficacy? Learned from the Qingdao seafood market, according to different varieties, different grades, so the price of sea cucumbers range from hundreds to thousands, or even tens of thousands.

How to select, bubble, eat and preserve dried sea cucumbers?

Selection of dried sea cucumbers:

1. Bottom foot: wild sea cucumbers generally grow in the sea area with a water depth of about 20 meters, and move around through the bottom foot to find food, so the bottom foot is short and thick; while the captive sea cucumber is fed by aquaculture personnel who do not need to move, and live in shallow water areas, the action role of the foot decreases, the adsorption is poor, and becomes slender.

2. Sand mouth: the sand mouth of wild sea cucumbers is large and hard.

3. Fleshy quality: wild sea cucumbers grow slowly because of deep water (15 to 20 meters), low water temperature, less sunshine, thick and elastic meat, broad and full tendons, and rich nutrients deposited, while captive sea cucumbers grow fast and the meat is soft and not tight.

4. Shape: wild sea cucumbers are spindle-shaped, thick at both ends, short and chubby, and look very strong, while captive sea cucumbers are slender and lack toughness.

5. Back thorns: wild sea cucumbers need to look for food and have more activities, and the spines on the back and on both sides are very thick and thick, while the artificial feeding of captive sea cucumbers is less active, and the spines on the back and on both sides are basically the same, and the slender thorns appear to be weak.

6. Growth years: wild sea cucumbers generally need to grow for more than 4-5 years to reach the fishing standard, and the longer the time, the more nutrition deposits, the greater the nourishing value; while captive sea cucumbers in order to quickly achieve the purpose of marketing, quickly fattening sea cucumbers, fishing and sales in a short period of one to two years, the nutritional value is obviously not as good as wild sea cucumbers.

In addition, wild sea cucumbers taste strong and have no astringency, and the incisions are delicate, neat and uniform.

Foam hair of dried sea cucumbers:

1. Clean the floating dust on the surface of sea cucumbers, put them into a clean container, add pure water or mineral water, completely immerse sea cucumbers in water, soak them in the fresh-keeping layer of the refrigerator for 48 hours, and change water twice in the middle.

2. After soaking for 48 hours, pour out the water. At this time, the size of the sea cucumber has obviously grown. Wash the sea cucumber, there is an opening in the abdomen of the sea cucumber, which is the opening of the viscera before processing. Cut it to both ends and cut to the head of the sea cucumber, you will see the cauliflower-shaped sand mouth and white sea cucumber teeth. Clean the sand mouth and teeth.

3. Do not remove the white inner tendons on the sea cucumber wall. They are sea cucumber tendons. Cutting a few sections with scissors can make the sea cucumbers grow better. Cut the sea cucumber tendons from the middle. Wash the processed sea cucumbers and put them into an electric pressure cooker and pour in enough pure water. Boil thoroughly with porridge function and simmer until naturally cooled.

4. Fish out the braised sea cucumbers, put them back into a clean container and pour enough pure water into the refrigerator for 24 hours. in the final foaming process, you will find that the sea cucumbers have grown a little longer. After soaking the sea cucumber, drain the water, wrap it in plastic wrap or cling box, then freeze it in the refrigerator, eat it every time, take it out, soak it in cold water and eat it in the way you like, convenient and fast!

Consumption of dried sea cucumbers:

1. the minced sea cucumber meat should be three fat and seven lean (that is, three fat meat and seven lean meat). Cut the meat into the final boiling water, wait for the minced meat to change color, then add soy sauce, water and a little sugar, then put in the sea cucumber and simmer until the soup tastes.

2. Spicy sea cucumbers if you feel that minced meat sea cucumbers are not enjoyable, you can also add dried chili peppers or hot pepper oil, mixed with Sichuan Pixian bean paste, can be made into spicy sea cucumbers.

3. Cut the sea cucumber and bean curd into powder, mix it with egg white and starch to make a paste; cut the sea cucumber into rice-shaped pieces, then drain the water and stir well in the egg white paste. Then fry the pan with spring onions and ginger, stir-fry with tender sauce and bean curd and serve. This dish is especially suitable for the elderly.

Preservation of dried sea cucumbers:

1. Keep dried sea cucumbers in a dry and ventilated place. Because the meat of sea cucumbers has dried up, the appearance is also wrapped in this layer of salt, isolated from the air, will not go bad.

2. For fear of affecting its quality and taste, if you want to keep it in the cold for a short time, and if you want to keep it for a longer time, you'd better put it in frozen storage and thaw it before eating. This is the safest way to save it.

What is the effect of dried sea cucumbers?

1. Sea cucumber is low in cholesterol and relatively low in fat. It is a typical food with high protein, low fat and low cholesterol. It can be called a good diet for patients with hypertension, coronary heart disease, hepatitis and the elderly. Regular eating is very beneficial to the treatment of diseases and health.

2. Sea cucumbers contain chondroitin sulfate, which is conducive to human growth and development, delay muscle aging and enhance immunity.

3. The content of trace element vanadium in sea cucumbers ranks first among all kinds of foods, which can participate in the transport of iron in blood and enhance hematopoietic function.

4. Recently, researchers in the United States have extracted a special substance-sea cucumber toxin from sea cucumbers. This compound can effectively inhibit the growth and metastasis of many kinds of molds and some human cancer cells.

5. Eating sea cucumbers has a good effect on aplastic anemia, diabetes, gastric ulcer and so on.

6. Sea cucumbers taste sweet and salty, warm in nature, enter the heart, kidney, spleen and lung meridians; have the functions of nourishing yin and tonifying kidney, strengthening yang and nourishing essence, nourishing heart and moistening dryness, tonifying blood, treating ulcer and so on.