2. Sea cucumber has certain characteristics in composition, that is, the cholesterol content is extremely low and the fat is relatively small. It is a typical food with high protein, low fat and low cholesterol, especially suitable for patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia and coronary heart disease. Sea cucumber is not only delicious at the banquet, but also a treasure that nourishes the human body. Chinese medicine believes that sea cucumber is sweet, salty and warm, and has the functions of tonifying kidney, replenishing essence, strengthening yang, treating flaccidity, moistening dryness and relaxing bowels. All patients with dizziness, tinnitus, backache, wet dream's nocturnal emission and frequent urination can take sea cucumber as a nourishing and dietetic product, which has the effect of tonifying kidney and replenishing essence.
3. Sea cucumber contains glycosaminoglycan, and sea cucumber glycosaminoglycan (hGAG) is a kind of glycosaminoglycan containing fucose (L-fu cos) extracted from the wall of sea cucumber Jade Foot, which is widely grown in the South China Sea. In the early 1980s, when Chinese scholars studied its anti-tumor effect, they found that hGAG could cause bleeding in experimental animals, and people gradually realized its anticoagulant effect. The researchers used hGAG to treat normal people and patients with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular thrombotic diseases, and found that HGAG has the functions of anticoagulation, lowering blood viscosity and lowering blood lipid.
4. Sea cucumber contains acidic mucopolysaccharide and chondroitin, which has the special effect of delaying aging. It can obviously reduce the contents of lipofuscin in heart tissue and hydroxyproline in skin, and has the purpose of delaying aging. Sea cucumber is known as "monopoly" because of its high arginine content. It is an important raw material for synthesizing human collagen. In addition, manganese, taurine, etc. All have unique functions of delaying human aging.
5. Sea cucumber has strong cytotoxicity and fish toxicity, can inhibit cancer cells, inhibit the synthesis of protein and ribonucleic acid, improve human immunity, resist cancer and sterilization, and has strong antiseptic ability. Selenium contained in sea cucumber can inhibit the growth of cancer cells and blood vessels, and has obvious anti-cancer effect. Science has proved that sea cucumber has obvious curative effect on cancer and obvious inhibitory effect on the growth and metastasis of malignant tumor. Clinically, it has been widely used for dietotherapy and treatment of patients with liver cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, bone cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, uterine cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, brain tumor and benign and malignant tumors with postoperative metastasis and recurrence.
6. Active substances such as zinc, acidic mucopolysaccharide and holothurin contained in sea cucumber have the functions of improving erectile capacity, inhibiting ovulation and stimulating contraction, improving nerve conduction of brain and gonad, and delaying gonadal aging.
Sea cucumber is an echinoderm, which is produced in the deep sea. There are more than 60 species along the coast of China, of which more than 20 species are edible. Sea cucumber is black, tender, soft and elastic, and can be divided into "Stichopus japonicus", "naked ginseng" and "naked ginseng". Sea cucumber is one of the precious seafood, and it is a delicacy at the banquet.
Sea cucumber is a kind of food with high protein, low fat and low cholesterol, so it is traditionally considered as a nourishing food, and it is better for people with hypertension, coronary heart disease, hepatitis and the elderly to eat sea cucumber. There are many cooking methods of sea cucumber, such as grilled sea cucumber with onion, sea cucumber with milk soup, sea cucumber with home cooking, sea cucumber with shrimp, sea cucumber with braised sauce, sea cucumber with chicken paste and so on. The production method of sea cucumber is more particular, and there must be all kinds of good seasonings to make delicious and tender dishes.