When is mantis shrimp the fattest? How do you choose?

Mantis shrimp is one of the shrimps, the scientific name Shrimp Gu, is the most common shrimp in coastal areas, its low price, delicious meat, has the effect of milk detoxification, tonifying kidney and strengthening yang, so many people like to eat it steamed or fried. When will mantis shrimp be the fattest? How do you choose?

When is the fattest?

Mantis shrimp is not a rare species, and it is very common in the aquatic product market, but if you want to eat delicious mantis shrimp, you have to keep an eye on the season.

Generally speaking, mantis shrimp's fattest time is in April or May every year, that is, during the Qingming Festival and Labour Day holiday every year. During this period of time, mantis shrimp is particularly fat, especially the mother shrimp, which has a lot of seeds.

By June, when mantis shrimp had finished giving birth, and then came the fishing moratorium, it was very difficult to eat the fat mantis shrimp. It was not until September that the shrimp grew up and could eat mantis shrimp again, but mantis shrimp at this time was very small and not fat enough.

Since mantis shrimp only lays eggs in spring every year, it is often said that spring is a good season to eat mantis shrimp, although mantis shrimp is more expensive at this time.

How do you choose?

First, look at the degree of freshness

Mantis shrimp's freshness is closely related to the taste. Mantis shrimp and crabs, the meat is basically protein, will soon deteriorate after death, stale mantis shrimp steamed in addition to the stench is often empty. There are two things to pay attention to when selecting mantis shrimp:

1. The living mantis shrimp's back is arched and will not lie there flat.

2. The eyes of live shrimp are very bright, and there will be green light, which will appear more clearly after coming out of the water, while the eyes of dead shrimp have long lost this color.

Second, distinguish between male and female

Male skin prawns have a full and firm sense of meat, while female mantis shrimp has delicious shrimp seeds. It is actually very easy to distinguish between male and female:

1. There are three white horizontal lines in the abdomen of the mother shrimp near the head and neck. Through the light, we can see that there is a very obvious solid line in the middle of the back of the mother shrimp, which is the color of the shrimp seed.

2. The three characteristics of the male shrimp: the body is majestic, the head cover is generally wide, the abdomen has two calves near the base of the neck, and the female shrimp does not.