Can not be cooked directly, it is best to remove the viscera, otherwise eat will have diarrhea or eat will have sand, the taste feel bad;

Treatment: first with the first time to wash the rice soak can be, soak the rice washing water mussels will naturally spit out the inside of the soil, and then as long as the inside of the black is very soft to remove the things can be, generally white slightly hard is its meat. Wash it with clean water and you can cook it.

Expanded Information

The mussel is also known as the "sea rainbow" in some parts of the Bohai Sea (but this term is used as a name for crabs in Tianjin). After drying, it is called "mussel". Distributed in the southern East China Sea and the South China Sea coast, Bohai Sea area. Often live in the intertidal zone to the shallow seabed, in addition to rocky reefs on the seashore, can also be found in the driftwood, the bottom of the boat and other places.

The mussel is salty, warm, non-toxic, and enters the liver and kidney meridians. It can tonify the kidney and benefit the essence, regulate the liver and nourish the blood, eliminate gall tumors, regulate menstrual blood, and lower blood pressure; it is used for the symptoms of weakness, dizziness, night sweating, impotence, lumbago, presenting blood, disintegration, banding, gall tumors, and obstruction in the abdomen.

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