Spiny ginseng is better.

Spiny ginseng is a kind of sea cucumber. It is one of the best quality sea cucumbers among more than 20 kinds of edible sea cucumbers in China. As a precious sea food, it is listed as one of the "eight treasures". Because of its medicinal properties, it is warm and complementary to the enemy ginseng, so it is called sea cucumber. The family of sea cucumber includes imitation sea cucumber, plum cucumber, green sea cucumber and flower sea cucumber.

Sea cucumber

Sea cucumber belongs to the class of invertebrates, echinoderms and sea cucumbers. There are more than 900 species in the world and about 140 species in China. Among them, the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean sea area is the area with the most sea cucumber species and the largest amount of resources in the world. China's sea cucumbers are distributed in the temperate zone and tropical zone, the temperate zone is mainly in the Yellow Bohai Sea area, the main economic species is the prickly ginseng, which is also the most well-known sea cucumber species in China.

Tropical zone is mainly in the coastal areas of Guangdong and Hainan, and the main economic varieties are plum ginseng. Among them, Xisha Islands, Nansha Islands and Hainan Island are the main places of origin of tropical sea cucumber in China. In the past half century, domestic and foreign scholars on more than 40 kinds of sea cucumber chemical composition research shows that the sea cucumber body is not only rich in amino acids, vitamins and chemical elements, such as the human body needs more than 50 kinds of nutrients.

Reference:Baidu Encyclopedia--Sea Cucumber