Functions: tonifying the kidney and yang; nourishing Yin; stomach; tranquilizing the mind. Main impotence; tendon and bone pain; tetany; neurasthenia; skin itching; head sores; scabies.
Contraindications for people with persistent illnesses, when the fire should not eat shrimp; allergic rhinitis, bronchitis, recurrent allergic dermatitis in the elderly should not eat shrimp; shrimp for the movement of the wind and hair, suffering from scabies of the skin should not be eaten.
Suitable for the crowd General population can eat. Middle-aged and elderly people, pregnant women and patients with cardiovascular disease is more suitable for consumption.
Lobster (scientific name: Palinuridae) is the arthropod phylum Crustacea decapoda lobster family 4 genera and 19 species of lobster common name. Also known as prawns, lobster, shrimp kui, sea shrimp and so on. It is thicker cephalothorax, hard shell, colorful, short abdomen, body length is generally between 20 cm to 40 cm, weighing 0.5 kg or so, is the largest class of shrimp. The heaviest can reach more than 5 kilograms, known as lobster tiger. The body was thick cylindrical, slightly flat dorsal and ventral, cephalothoracic armor developed, thick and thoracic spines, the central anterior edge of a pair of powerful supraocular spines, with closed gill chambers. Mainly distributed in tropical waters, is a valuable seafood. China has found eight species, with a larger yield of Chinese lobster.
Nutritional value of lobster
Lobster is not only meat white and tender, delicious flavor, high protein, low fat, nutrient-rich.
Lobster armor is more red than other shrimp shells. This is because lobster contains more iron, calcium and carotene than other shrimp. Lobster shell is as good for human health as the meat, and it has healing properties for many diseases.
"Gleanings of Materia Medica": big red shrimp born in Linhai, Huiji, the big one is one foot long, the beard can be replaced.
"North Household Records": red shrimp out of Chaozhou, Panzhou, South Baxian, large two feet long.
"Compendium": Min in the five-color shrimp, but also more than a foot long, they two two dry, called the shrimp, in order to fill the food.
1, Protein
From the point of view of protein composition, the protein content of lobster is 18.9%, higher than most of the freshwater and seawater fish and shrimp, and its amino acid composition is superior to that of meat, containing essential and the body can not be synthesized or synthesized amount of eight essential amino acids, not only including isoleucine, tryptophan, Lysine, lysine, phenylalanine, valine and threonine, and also contains arginine, which is rarely found in vertebrates, in addition, lobster also contains histidine, which is also necessary for young children.
2, fat
Lobster's fat content of only 0.2%, not only much lower than livestock and poultry meat, than shrimp, prawns and much lower, and most of its fat is composed of essential unsaturated fatty acids, easy to be digested and absorbed by the human body, and has the effect of preventing cholesterol accumulation in the body.
3, Mineral Composition
Lobster and other aquatic products, as well as the human body contains essential minerals, which contains more calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, the content of more important iron, sulfur, copper and so on. The total amount of minerals in lobster is about 1.6%, of which the content of calcium, phosphorus, sodium and iron are higher than the general livestock and poultry meat, but also higher than shrimp. Therefore, regular consumption of lobster meat can maintain nerve and muscle excitability.
4, Vitamins
From the point of view of vitamin composition, lobster is also one of the important sources of fat-soluble vitamins, lobster is rich in vitamins A, C, D, greatly exceeding the content of terrestrial animals.
5, potassium
Lobster is rich in potassium, which helps to maintain nerve health, heartbeat regularity normal, can prevent stroke, and assist normal muscle contraction. It has a blood pressure lowering effect.
6, phosphorus
Lobster is rich in phosphorus, promote growth and repair of body tissues and organs, supply of energy and vitality, involved in the regulation of acid-base balance.
Sodium
Lobster is rich in sodium, can regulate osmotic pressure, maintain acid-base balance. Maintain normal blood pressure. Enhance neuromuscular excitability.
Copper
Lobster is rich in copper, for the blood, central nervous and immune systems, hair, skin and bone tissue, as well as the brain and liver, heart and other internal organs of the development and function of the important impact.
Magnesium
Lobster is rich in magnesium, magnesium has an important role in regulating the heart's activity, can be very good protection of the cardiovascular system, which can reduce blood cholesterol levels, prevent atherosclerosis, but also expand the coronary arteries, is conducive to the prevention of hypertension and myocardial infarction.
Astaxanthin
A very important substance in the body of lobster is astaxanthin, is the surface of the red-colored components, astaxanthin is the strongest one of the most powerful antioxidants found, the darker the color indicates that the higher the content of astaxanthin.
The efficacy and role of lobstertaste sweet; salty; warm nature Functions: tonifying the kidney and Yang; nourishing Yin; stomach; tranquilize the mind. Main impotence; tendon pain; tetany; neurasthenia; skin itching; head sores; scabies. It is suitable for patients with kidney impotence, spermatorrhea, premature ejaculation, lactation, tendon and bone pain, convulsions of hands and feet, generalized itching, skin ulcers, weakness and neurasthenia.
Crab, shrimp shells and gardenia spirits into powder, can treat neuralgia, rheumatism, polio, epilepsy, gastric and gynecological diseases, etc., the United States also use lobster shells to manufacture antiemetic drugs.
The exposition
"Materia Medica Gleanings": big red shrimp cons, the main roundworm, mouth chancre NI, wind itching body exhaustion, head sores, dental caries, go scabies.
"Gleanings from the Compendium": shrimp, kidney Xingyang; treatment of phlegm and fire after hemiplegia, muscle and bone pain.
"With interest in the home Chin recipe": appetizer, phlegm.
To tonify the kidneys and promote yang
For the treatment of impotence due to kidney yang deficiency, lumbago, frequent urination and to supplement the deficiency of qi of the five organs, for men with sexual dysfunction, spermatorrhea, impotence of the kidneys and premature ejaculation of the man to consume.
Milk and breast milk
Shrimp lactation effect is strong, and rich in phosphorus, calcium, children, pregnant women, especially have a tonic effect; maternal lactation, complementary body, and promote the efficacy of recovery.
Resolving blood stasis and removing toxins
Can promote the operation of the human body qi and blood, the treatment of blood stasis has a certain degree of help.
Dispels fat and lowers blood pressure
It can reduce the cholesterol content in the blood, preventing atherosclerosis, and also dilates the coronary arteries, which is helpful in preventing hypertension and myocardial infarction.
Improve immunity
Shrimp is rich in nutrients, and its meat is soft, easy to digest, for the body is weak as well as the need to recuperate after the disease is an excellent food;
Improve resistance
Lobster is rich in protein, has the ability to maintain the balance of potassium and sodium; elimination of Edema. Improve immunity. Lower blood pressure, buffer anemia, conducive to growth and development.
Medicinal value
Lobster also has medicinal value, can reduce phlegm and cough, and promote post-surgical wound healing.
How to make lobster Lobster treatment Lobster must be picked live, dead lobster meat will be very loose. After brushing the lobsters one by one, remove the whiskers on the head, remove the front claws, and cut the shells on both sides of the head to remove the gills of the shrimp. Then put the lobster into the water basin rinse, the left hand grabbed the back of the lobster, the right hand gently twisted off the lobster tail against the back of the two caudal fins, the shrimp tail in the middle of the page, and then force ingested and then pulled out to pull out its intestines, the stomach will be clean. One by one, after cleaning the intestines after the completion of the pumping into the water, drop 5 drops of peanut oil in the water, wait 5 minutes. Grab the back of the lobster, lift the brain, if there is yellow, leave the shell, otherwise the lobster brain shell lift off. This is treated, rinse a few more times. There are many ways to cook shrimp Folk eat lobster, more steamed or boiled shells to take the meat, dipped in ginger vinegar and other seasonings to eat. Restaurants, restaurants processing is much more complex, often out of the meat after the knife molding into cooking, dishes to Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan, such as "on the soup fire bureau lobster," "oil bubble lobster ball," "garlic steamed lobster "and so on. Lobster food compatibility Shrimp avoid eating with certain fruits. Shrimp is relatively rich in nutrients such as protein and calcium. If you eat them with fruits containing tannins, such as grapes, pomegranates, hawthorn, persimmons, etc., not only will reduce the nutritional value of protein, but also tannins and calcium ions combined to form insoluble compounds to stimulate the stomach and intestines, causing discomfort, vomiting, dizziness, nausea, and diarrhea and abdominal pain and other symptoms. The seafood and these fruits should be eaten at least 2 hours apart. Lobster must be cleaned Live lobster in the buy, it is best to put in the water to raise 24-36 hours, so that it spit out the body of sediment and other impurities, kill bacteria. In the processing of lobster, is the two gills in the dirt to be removed, because the gills hair inside the adsorption of a lot of bacteria, shrimp shells are best scrubbed with a brush. The roots of the lobster's fine claws are most likely to harbor dirt and must be cut off. In addition to use a brush to wash the dirt on its body, while hiding a lot of sediment and bacteria intestinal line must also be culled clean, and then use water to fully wash 2-3 times. lobster how to clean To eat assured crayfish, cleaning is critical, and this is a seemingly simple but important process. Almost every family has its own "small recipe", the reporter collected the following various strokes, can be described as the eight immortals over the sea, each showing their skills, take a look at it. "expensive" trick: Vitamin C + soda + citric acid According to information, "8 ‰ Vitamin C + 6 ‰ soda + 6 ‰ citric acid" is the standard for export of crayfish! washing method. It is said that Vitamin C + soda can be washed white shrimp intestine, but there are two drawbacks: First, the lobster mortality rate is high, about 30% -40%; Second, the cost is high, costing about 50,000 -60,000 / ton, very expensive. Odd trick: high-pressure water column flushing It is said that some hotels in the field is this way to clean the lobster: the use of professional equipment to clean lobsters in the form of assembly line operations, including high-pressure water column flushing, washing, filtering, and other a set of processes. This approach has a high technological content, but the cost is quite high. Tips: vinegar + salt Ms. Zhou told reporters that she is generally cleaning lobsters this way: put the crayfish directly into the vinegar and salt in the water, soak for 15 minutes, forcing the lobster to spit out the gills of the filth, generally after the soaking of crayfish has been very clean, and then rinse with water 3 times, you can Cooking. "old" trick: artificial scrubbing Home cooking crayfish, artificial scrubbing is the most common cleaning method. First of all, the crayfish body surface brushing clean, and then remove the shrimp head stomach (tips: knife down not to the end, cut into half of the shrimp head to pull out, so that generally the whole stomach out), and then pinch the tail in the middle of the tail twisted left and right until disconnected, and then the shrimp intestines slowly pulled out. How to identify crayfish with shrimp powder "bath" According to the relevant people, crayfish with shrimp powder wash, rely on the sense of taste can not be identified, only through careful observation. Because wash shrimp powder is a strong alkaline substance, there is a strong pungent flavor, although after cooking it is difficult to smell, but was corroded after the crayfish shrimp pincers are easy to fall off. Therefore, if the table crayfish shrimp pincers generally less, the use of shrimp powder is more likely. In addition, after corrosion crayfish color will be very bright, diners should also pay attention to this point. spicy crayfish Ingredients: 1 catty of crayfish, green onions, ginger, garlic, 3 sharp chili peppers, a few red chili peppers, beer, sugar, salt, oil Practice (1) one catty of crayfish, use a toothbrush to Wash the belly, draw off the intestinal line. (2) green onions, ginger, garlic minced, three sharp chili peppers also minced. (3) about two taels of oil, this thing is more oil to incense. Oil into the pan eight minutes hot, put a few red pepper, stir fry flavor, put the crawfish stir fry, successively put cut onion, ginger, garlic and pepper minced, and then stir fry; (4) a cup of beer dripping pot, there are two can be, cover the pot to simmer. (5) three minutes later, put sugar, salt, stir-fry and then simmer for three minutes after the pot is ready to eat. From the pot to the pot, all time 12 minutes. Baked Lobster with Cheese Ingredients: half a live lobster, 3-5 mushrooms, 1/4 onion, a little butter, a little flour, 2 tbsp whipping cream, about 5 slices of Fontina cheese Directions (2) Mushrooms diced, onions chopped, sautéed in butter, then add whipping cream, flour, Fontina cheese and sautéed until thickened, then add the diced lobster into the mix, sautéed until the lobster meat is cooked to eight minutes, then remove from the pan, put into the shells of the lobster, on top of the shaved slices of Fontina cheese, and then put into the 250 ℃ oven to bake until the cheese melted and became golden brown. Braised lobster Ingredients: lobster, ginger, garlic, green onion, dried red chili pepper, sesame leaves Directions (1) Lobster brushed clean the abdomen, remove the head of the whiskers, remove the front claws, the head of the shells on both sides of the shell cut to remove the gills of shrimp. . (2) pot of oil in the bottom of the heat under the garlic, ginger, pepper, cumin, white onion burst incense, then add dried chili and sesame leaves (the purpose is to dry chili will not scorch off), and then immediately poured into the rinsed lobster. (3) stir fry a few lobsters will immediately turn red, add wine, soy sauce and stir fry. (4) Pour in the water and start simmering, adding some salt and a little sugar for flavor. Keep cooking on medium heat and boil the soup until it is almost dry. In the process of braising, you can also taste the soup, like the taste of heavy can always add some flavor into it. (5) Well, the soup is almost dry when you can get out of the pot, sprinkled with a little green onion garnish can be. In this way, a delicious braised lobster came out. Boiled crayfish Ingredients: 1 catty of crayfish, 1 green onion, 4 slices of ginger, 4 pieces of garlic, 2 tablespoons of salt Practice (1) many people deal with the crayfish is simply brushed and washed, which is very wrong, it is very wrong. Be sure to cut off the gills of the crayfish, this is very important. (2) boil a pot of water, onions, ginger, garlic into the pot, simmer for 3 minutes (3) the crayfish into the pot, and put salt, simmer on high heat for 15 minutes. Lobsters are omnivores, in natural conditions, mainly ingesting organic debris, adhering to the algae, filamentous algae, aquatic plants, roots, leaves and debris, especially like to eat juicy, fat and tender green plants, such as water flotation lotus, water hyacinth, Malayan eyelet, green peppermint and bitter herbs and so on. Animal food includes water worms, earthworms, eggs of aquatic insects, nymphs, snails, mussels and fish. In the case of artificial breeding, it can be fed with feed, by-products of agricultural by-products processing (cake meal, rice bran, bran, etc.), scraps from slaughterhouses, and various kinds of delicate land grass, melons, fruits, vegetable leaves and so on. Young lobsters to stranded small mixed fish and minced meat-based, in the subsequent 1 month to put small mixed fish, scraps of meat or artificial bait with bait; to be shrimp fry to grow to 6 to 7 cm, can be fed all the rolled snails, mussels and the appropriate amount of plant-based bait. "Lobster likes to eat plankton, heavy metals, oil and other garbage, although not the lobster feeding object, but can be attached to the food into the lobster body. If the heavy metal ions in the polluted water life, lobster body 'poison' will be difficult to excrete. Lobsters are eaten as a flavorful food, though with safety risks. Lobsters grown in polluted environments may carry these toxic substances for life, as they are resistant to high temperatures and cannot be boiled to death in boiling water. However, the body's own immune function, eat less, it's okay, only when the human body ingested a certain amount of harmful substances have obvious symptoms. Suitable for the crowd Middle-aged and elderly people, pregnant women and patients with cardiovascular disease is more suitable for consumption Unsuitable for the crowd Hangover people, is on the time of the fire should not eat shrimp; suffering from allergic rhinitis, bronchitis, recurrent allergic dermatitis of the elderly should not eat shrimp; shrimp for the movement of the wind hair, suffering from skin scabies people avoid eating purchase advisable The body is thick cylindrical, slightly flat dorsal and ventral, cephalothoracic armor developed, thick and thoracic spiny, the center of the front edge of the pair of powerful supraoperciliary spines, with closed gill chambers. The body is slightly cylindrical. The abdomen is shorter and thicker, curling posteriorly toward the ventral surface, and the caudal fan is broad and short. Purchasing taboos First of all, the purchase of lobsters in the "slow claw" state is prohibited. Lobster in the death, there will be some signs. Such as close to death, lobster feet will appear "slow claw" state, that is, not good at swimming, slow action, its feet and antennae are even slower, the body almost underwater can no longer move position, will soon be dead, so do not buy this state of lobster. Secondly, do not buy lobsters in the "fading" state. Lobster head, thoracic armor hard spiny, only a short abdomen for edible parts, head, chest and abdomen connected to the tender meat. How to recognize the good and bad crayfish? The color red, soft, off drag shrimp is not fresh as much as possible not to eat, corruption and spoilage of shrimp can not be eaten. Shrimp line on the back of the shrimp should be picked not to eat Selected crayfish is the most critical, crayfish is the most delicious time is from May to October, yellow full of fat meat, even the three sections of the chelae are from the head to the tail of the teeth of the snow muscle. Look at the crayfish is clear water is muddy water, a look at the back, red and clean, which is still available, and then turn to look at its abdominal fluff and claws on the hairs, here if it is white and neat, basically clean water raised. Eat lobster to see if there is mud in the tail If you find the lobster tail mud when you buy, this lobster is living in the paddy fields, ditches or general silt more ponds, such lobsters even with a brush cleaning can not be cleaned up the tail of the dirt, burned out to eat it will feel a strange taste. In addition, growing in the sewage lobster will be smaller, body color is not so bright. And really live in the deeper freshwater lake lobster generally buy back, just need to wash with water can be into the pot, do not need to spend how much cleaning efforts. See if the pincers come off easily Crayfish washed with shrimp powder tend to look very clean and brightly colored. Whether the crayfish washed with powdered shrimp can not be tasted by eating, only by careful observation. After being corroded crayfish pincers are easy to fall off, if the table crayfish pincers generally less, the possibility of using shrimp powder. In addition, after corrosion of the crayfish color will be very bright, the public should also pay attention to this point. No bending without elasticity is dead lobster can be identified from three aspects of dead lobster: First, the body of the live lobster after cooking bending is tighter, and vice versa is a dead lobster; Second, the live lobster meat is harder and more elastic, with some chewiness. Some chewy, dead lobsters eat up soft; Third, the meat of live lobsters with a bit of sweetness, while the meat of dead lobsters tastes light and even a bit of ammonia flavor. Lobster precautions Dead lobster should not be eaten. Because lobster is a high-protein organisms, the body itself contains a lot of bacteria, lobster is dead, bacteria immediately decomposition, people eat, easy to poison and diarrhea. Live lobster in the buy, it is best to put in the water to raise 24 to 36 hours, so that it spit out the body of sediment and other impurities, kill bacteria. In the processing of lobster, two gills in the dirt to be removed, because the gill hairs inside the adsorption of a lot of bacteria, shrimp shells are best scrubbed with a brush. The root of the lobster fine claw is most likely to hide dirt, must be cut off. Finally, it has to be brushed and washed before cooking. Cooking lobsters must be cooked at high temperatures to ensure that the bacteria and parasites in the lobster are killed. Picking: When it comes to distinguishing between good and bad lobsters, it's really quite simple. Fresh lobsters are bright and full, the meat is tight, and there is a certain elasticity and chewiness. If the lobster has been placed for a period of time or has died, the meat is flaccid and looks empty and not full.