Misgurnus anguillicaudatus usually comes out at night to prey on plankton, aquatic insects, crustaceans, aquatic higher plant debris, algae and so on. Sometimes they eat underwater humus or sludge. In artificial breeding, feed types include fly maggots, fish meal, pig blood meal, silkworm pupa meal, rice bran, wheat bran, vegetable cake and so on.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus larvae have strong feed selectivity, so it is necessary to cultivate palatable bait such as rotifer and small phytoplankton, filter them with a 50-mesh quasi-sieve, feed them along the pond, and properly feed them with cooked egg yolk, fish powder, milk powder, bean cake and other refined feed.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus has a mild diet and sweet taste, and has the functions of tonifying deficiency in middle energizer, warming spleen and stomach, eliminating dampness, treating hemorrhoids, strengthening yang and stopping sweating.

Suitable for people with weak body, deficiency and cold of spleen and stomach and malnutrition; Children with physical weakness and night sweats eat it, which is helpful for growth and development; Suitable for cancer patients and after radiotherapy and chemotherapy; Is suitable for patients with acute and chronic hepatitis and jaundice, especially patients with acute icteric hepatitis, and can promote the decrease of jaundice and transaminase; It is suitable for patients with impotence, hemorrhoids and itchy skin.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus is a kind of food with high protein and low fat. It contains an unsaturated fatty acid similar to eicosapentaenoic acid, which can prevent the aging of human blood vessels and is suitable for the elderly and cardiovascular patients.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus is cooked with tender meat, which is tender and delicious. Loach has a strong earthy smell. Before cooking, a few drops of vegetable oil should be dropped into the pool or basin to remove dirt and discharge intestinal feces. Then, cut off your head with scissors, wash your stomach and wash it.

Misgurnus anguillicaudatus is nutritious. Chinese medicine believes that Misgurnus anguillicaudatus has the effects of warming the middle warmer, invigorating qi, eliminating dampness and eliminating pathogenic factors, and has certain curative effects on thirst, impotence, infectious hepatitis, itchy skin, ascites, dysuria, hemorrhoids and scabies. It is also the top grade of dietotherapy for liver disease, diabetes and urinary system diseases.