Some unscrupulous businessmen colored large yellow croaker and faked it. This coloring dye is usually an organic chemical dye, such as emerald golden yellow, which is not good for people's physical and mental health. Identification method: wipe the fish with white handkerchief paper, and the colored fish will leave obvious light yellow on the paper. Frozen colorful yellow croaker sometimes appears pale yellow on the ice. You can also soak the fish in water for about 5 minutes, and the colored fish water may turn into wine color.
In addition, the method to distinguish whether large yellow croaker is fresh or not: generally, fresh large yellow croaker has round eyes, clear cornea, inseparable gill cover, bright red gills, transparent mucus and no peculiar smell. The meat is firm and plastic, the head and tail are not bent, and the finger can react immediately when it is dented. Fish scales are delicate and shiny, which are inseparable from the fish body and are not easy to fall off.
Pseudosciaena crocea is rich in selenium, which can eliminate oxygen free radicals produced by metabolism, prevent aging and prevent various cancers. (Pseudosciaena crocea has antibacterial effect and will keep fresh longer than other freshwater fish. In the past, fishermen stuck raw beef and mutton of large yellow croaker with fish and other fish on the wall, and found that other fish rotted first, but large yellow croaker was fresher.