Nutritional value and efficacy of razor clams
Razor clam meat is sweet, salty, cold, and has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification, tonifying the yin in addition to the annoyance, benefiting the kidneys and water, clearing up the stomach to treat dysentery, and replenishing the deficiency after childbirth. Jia You Materia Medica" records, razor clam meat to supplement the deficiency, the main cold diarrhea, boiled food, the main woman postpartum deficiency, the chest of the evil heat and boredom gas. As recorded in the Dietary Records of Sui Xijiu, razor clam meat clears the stomach, cures dysentery, removes vexation, and replenishes post-partum deficiencies. Quanzhou Materia Medica records that razor clam meat clears heat and removes toxins, facilitates urination, and eliminates edema. Razor clam meat can be used to treat postpartum deficiency, irritable heat and thirst, damp-heat edema, heatstroke dysentery, and dysuria. Razor clams are rich in iodine and zinc, and are good health food for pregnant women and the elderly. Razor clams contain zinc and manganese, often eat razor clams help brain nutritional supplementation, have brain-healthy and intellectual role."
Razor clam home cooking
Stir-fried scallion razor clams:Blanch the razor clams and fish them out, add cooking wine, soy sauce, marinate for a few minutes. Then put the oil in the pot, heat it up, add garlic, red pepper shreds, ginger, and then stir fry. Then add the marinated razor clams, stir fry for a few minutes together. Add green onions, moderate salt, continue to stir fry can be removed from the pot.
What is razor clam
Razor clams, scientific name razor clams, alias "little man fairy" belongs to the mollusks, is a bivalve shellfish in the order of curtain clams, living in the ocean, for the common seafood ingredients. The shell is brittle and thin in a long flat square shape, from the top of the shell to the abdominal edge, there is a diagonal groove, so it is called razor clam. Ningbo coastal area with more mudflats, razor clam farming has unique advantages, is the Ningbo public sea specialties, Ninghai Long Street area, facing the Sanmen Bay, there are a lot of freshwater injected into the seawater all year round, the seawater is suitable for salty and light, bait is abundant, and the soil is mainly mud and sand, and thus razor clams are fast-growing, large individuals, tender and fat meat, white color and taste, and therefore the name of razor clam in Long Street. According to the Qing Dynasty "Ninghai County Records": razor clams, mussels, to the field species of the seed called razor clams field, shape narrow and long as the middle finger, a Xishi tongue, the word of its beauty.
There are several kinds of razor clams
Razor clams are very much like to stay in the sea with low salinity near the estuary and the inner bay soft mud mud inside the sea. There are two types of razor clams, the long bamboo razor, which is longer, and the bamboo razor.
Long bamboo razor clams: big bamboo razor shells long, up to 14 centimeters, the general shell length for the shell height of 4 to 5 times. The bright mouth edge is parallel to the ventral edge, and only slightly concave in the middle of the ventral edge. The top of the shell is located at the front end of the shell, the front edge of the shell is truncated, and the back end is rounded. The two shells are embraced in the shape of a bamboo tube, with openings at the anterior and posterior ends. The shell is thin and brittle. The surface of the shell is smooth, covered with yellow-brown crust, sometimes with light red colored bands. The growth lines are obvious, arranged along the posterior and ventral margins. Inner surface of shell white or slightly purplish, reddish colored bands visible. The hinge is small, with one primary tooth on each shell. The long bamboo frog is similar to the large bamboo frog, the main difference is that the shell is very long, the shell length is 6-7 times the height of the shell, the shell is thin, the two shells are equal.
Bamboo razor clams: These razor clams live in the intertidal zone to the bottom of shallow sandy mud, with strong and powerful anchor-shaped axe foot upright life, most of the body is buried in the mud, but if it encounters danger or poor environmental conditions, it will be cut its own outflow and inlet pipe and quickly buried all the body in the mud. Most of the razor clams live in the sea with low salinity and water depth of about 20 to 50 centimeters. It is distributed in the tropics, with more production along the southeastern coast of the mainland, and in Taiwan, it is mostly produced in the south-central part of the country, especially in the sandy waters around Taichung and Yunga.