Crab is rich in nutrients, including protein and cholesterol, vitamins A, B, E, as well as a large number of trace elements such as selenium, which is beneficial to the human body. The protein and vitamins contained in crabs are beneficial to human skin, especially for the healing of human wounds to a certain extent.

Not only that, crabs also have the role of enhancing immunity, protein and selenium can be for the body's immune cells phagocytosis invasion of the body's "foreign matter" and the secretion of antibodies to provide raw materials, thus enhancing the body's immune ability. Therefore, crabs can not only satisfy our taste buds, but also have many benefits for human health.

Patients with related illnesses such as spleen and stomach disorders and high cholesterol should minimize the use or avoid eating crabs to avoid aggravating their conditions.

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Precautions for eating crabs

1. Steam and cook through, don't eat raw crabs

River (lake) crabs feed on animal carcasses or humus, so the crab's body surface, gills, and gastrointestinal tract are full of all kinds of bacteria and sludge. Some people eat the germs or parasites inside the crabs into their stomachs because they have not scrubbed the crabs clean, steamed and boiled them imperfectly, or because they eat drunken or pickled crabs raw, so how can they not get sick? If you steam and cook it thoroughly and then eat it, you won't have this problem.

2, eat "fresh spirit", dead crabs should not be eaten

River crabs after the death of the rigor mortis period and autolysis period is greatly reduced, the bacteria in the body of the crab will rapidly multiply and spread to the crab meat, so that the eater vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea. The shells of fresh live crabs are greenish-black, glossy, with a full umbilicus and a white abdomen. Dying crabs have yellow shells and soft legs, making it difficult to turn them over.

3, steam now eat, do not store

If you can not eat, the rest must be kept in a clean, cool and ventilated place, eat must be back to the pot and then cooked and steamed through.

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