The fact that the clams have been left to stink for a night means that they are dead and can't be eaten. Clams belong to the shellfish, not fresh shellfish produce a lot of amines and free radicals, thus posing a threat to human health. After shopping for live shellfish you can't store them at home for too long, so cook them as soon as possible.

And dead shellfish are full of germs and toxins. The shellfish itself is high in bacteria, protein decomposition and fast, once dead, a large number of breeding bacteria, toxins, and unsaturated fatty acids contained therein are also easy to oxidize and rancidity.

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The way to buy clams:

1, choose to open the mouth of the clam. Buy clams to choose to open the mouth for air, so that the live clams eat more fresh, and try to choose the whole body stretch, spit sand more evenly.

2, do not choose to open the shell. Some clams have opened the shell, indicating that the clams have died, such clams fried with a fishy odor, affecting the taste. Therefore, special attention should be paid to the selection.

3, supermarket clams are better than vendors. Small purchase of clams after comparison, found that although the supermarket is more expensive than the vendors sell some, but eat without odor, mainly in the supermarket with brine, and constant oxygen supply, processing is better, the clams on the vendors for a longer period of time, a lot of death.

4, choose larger clams. Large clams have more meat, eat more flavor. So try to pick the bigger ones.

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