However, there is also controversy about the happiness of eating shrimp. The common question is "Can the head of shrimp be eaten?" Let's take a look at this matter this time.
What's in the shrimp head? In fact, we have never lacked ingredients such as "head" and "brain" in our recipes, such as chopped fish head, snack pig brain flower, spicy rabbit head and other famous dishes, but shrimp head is different from these.
Due to the different structure of the organism itself, almost all the internal organs of shrimp grow on its head, and only one shrimp intestine runs through the body for excretion, so the situation of shrimp head, rabbit head and fish head cannot be generalized. Not only shrimp heads.
Shrimp yellow, shrimp sauce and other things we think are good.
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Shrimp gills, heart, liver, stomach, glands and other parts are also crowded in the small shrimp head.
In these parts, not only some shrimp food and excrement will remain, but also some shrimp blood will remain. We have shared the blood of crustaceans before, which is more likely to cause allergies and diarrhea, which is why crab hearts have always been called "cold things".
Can the second shrimp head be eaten after all? In fact, through the above introduction, we can already see that we are interested in "can shrimp heads be eaten?" Yes, but it is not recommended.
At present, there is a popular saying called "measurement without harm". There are few dirty things in the shrimp sausage and shrimp head sold after inspection, but even less can not change the objective fact that it is not delicious. It is also difficult for ordinary consumers to tell with the naked eye whether what is left in this shrimp head is up to standard.
Therefore, considering comprehensively, the edible value of shrimp head is quite low.
Our attitude towards food can generally be simply divided into three categories: ① what is absolutely forbidden, ② what is not recommended, and ③ what can be eaten.
① Never eat: Things belonging to this category are basically spoiled and rotten, which will bring more serious consequences, such as sprouted green potatoes (containing solanine), moldy peanuts (possibly containing aflatoxin) and unknown mushrooms (with higher risk of poisoning).
2 It is not recommended to eat: the food in this category is a little vague, but there is a clever way to distinguish it. That is, when a food needs to be advised to eat on the grounds that it is "unclean and not sick", most of it belongs to the same category, such as shrimp head (shrimp food, excrement, heavy metal and other residues).
3 Edible: This cannot be enumerated one by one. Except for the first two, all other foods belong to this category.
Third, in fact, many people compete to eat shrimp heads, mainly for the "shrimp yellow shrimp sauce" inside. By the way, what are shrimp yellow and shrimp paste? Generally speaking, shrimp yellow and shrimp paste actually refer to the mature gonads of shrimp, and the main components are protein and fat, so shrimp paste will be yellow and full during the breeding period. But you also need to find a situation. It seems that whenever you eat shrimp, you can see the yellow substance inside. What's going on here?
This is because in fact, the "shrimp paste" that most of us see when eating shrimp is not the gonad of the real shrimp, but the shrimp's.
hepatopancreas
Especially crayfish. Hepatopancreas, also known as digestive gland or midgut gland, is the largest and most important organ of shrimp. It plays an important role in shrimp's immunity, digestion, physiological regulation and hematopoiesis. Moreover, there are detoxification enzymes, stress-resistant enzymes and other substances in the liver and pancreas of shrimp, which help shrimp fight against unfavorable conditions such as bacteria and heavy metals in the growing environment, so it is easy to produce lesions, which is one of the main reasons why we do not recommend eating shrimp heads!