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Crab in the refrigerator or frozen
Short-term preservation in the refrigerator
The crab is not a lot, in 2~3 days can be eaten, you can directly the crab bundled, put the refrigerator in the fresh layer of freshness.
Take them out before cooking, put them in water and brush them clean, and then cook them again. Short-term preservation has little effect on the loss of nutrients in crabs, so it is suitable to put them in the freshness layer.
Long-term preservation put frozen
Crab is more, in the short term can not eat all, you need to brush the crab, put the crab in the freezer layer of the refrigerator for freezing treatment, this frozen crab can be stored for a longer period of time.
Taken out before cooking and thawed before cooking, there is usually not much change in taste and the nutrients are better preserved.
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Can you still eat crab in the refrigerator
Crab can still be eaten in the refrigerator.
The refrigerator freezer layer is at a constant temperature of about 0°, and putting the crabs in the refrigerator to freeze is creating a cold atmosphere in which the crabs will gradually go dormant, and the mortality rate of the crabs preserved in this way is lower.
When you want to eat crabs, just take them out for cooking, and it will not affect the taste and nutritional value of the crabs.
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Can you eat crabs that have died from refrigeration
Crabs that have died from refrigeration are not edible.
Crabs on the verge of death or after death, the body will produce histidine, histidine will decompose, produce toxic substances - histamine, the longer the time of death, the more poisonous hoards in the body of the crab, even if the crab is cooked, will not destroy the toxins, consumption is easy to cause food poisoning.
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Precautions for eating crabs
Wash them thoroughly
The crabs should be thoroughly cleaned before cooking. There is often sediment on top of the shells, which should be washed with cold water, and the inedible portion of the shells should be flayed as much as possible, which is the part where the bacteria are the easiest to breed and multiply.
Be sure to cook through
When heating the whole crab, the heat does not penetrate as quickly, and the crab shell is very thick, the crab is not boiled through, the gills of the crab, or shell corners of the hidden E. coli bacteria is not easy to be killed, consumption of these bacteria is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort and other diseases.
Don't eat too much at one time
Crab is a cold food, overconsumption is easy to gastrointestinal discomfort, especially for people who already have gastrointestinal discomfort more do not want to eat, so do not eat too much at one time.