1, choose a clam that opens its mouth for air.
When buying flower clams, you should choose to open your mouth to breathe. Such live flower clams are more delicious to eat, and try to choose the whole body to stretch, and spit sand more evenly.
2, don't choose open shell.
Some clams have already opened their shells, indicating that they are dead. Such clams have a foul smell after being fried, which affects the taste. Therefore, special attention should be paid when selecting.
3. Choose a bigger clam.
Big clams have more meat and taste better, so try to choose bigger ones.
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Nutritional value of Meretrix meretrix
1, delicious meat, rich nutrition, high protein content, and reasonable amino acid composition and ratio; Low fat content, high unsaturated fatty acid, easy to be digested and absorbed by human body, and various vitamins and medicinal components. It contains calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and other essential trace elements, which can be used as human nutrition and green food and is favored by consumers.
2. Clam meat and mollusks contain a kind of Dieter 7- cholesterol and 24- methylene cholesterol, which can reduce serum cholesterol. They have the unique functions of inhibiting cholesterol synthesis in the liver and accelerating cholesterol excretion, thus reducing cholesterol in the body. They are more effective than the commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug sitosterol.
3. Chinese medicine believes that clam meat has the effects of nourishing yin, improving eyesight, softening and resolving phlegm, and some shellfish also have the effect of moistening the dirty. Everyone can eat it. People with high cholesterol and hyperlipidemia and people with goiter, bronchitis, stomach disease and other diseases are especially suitable.
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