It is best not to eat crabs raw.

Raw crabs contain paragonimiasis metacercariae and Vibrio paralyticus, and lobsters are the intermediate host of paragonimiasis. After eating crabs and lobsters raw, paragonimiasis enters the human body and can cause severe lung damage. The patient will cause intestinal inflammation or intestinal edema and congestion.

According to statistics, more than 4,000 outpatients suffered lung damage, more than 3,000 suffered intestinal inflammation, and more than 2,000 suffered intestinal edema and congestion due to eating raw crabs and lobsters.

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The Fujian Provincial Food and Drug Administration reminds citizens that eating raw crabs is not recommended. This way of eating is harmful to the human body because crabs are one of the intermediate hosts of paragonimiasis. , Eating raw crabs may lead to lung fluke infection; and crabs feed on putrefactive substances, and there are a large number of germs and toxins in their intestines and stomach. Eating raw crabs can easily cause poisoning.

At the same time, don’t eat crabs and persimmons together. According to the perspective of ancient medicine, crabs and persimmons are both cold foods, and eating too much at the same time can easily cause discomfort. Modern medicine believes that crabs are rich in protein, and persimmons contain a lot of tannic acid. Eating both together will cause coagulation and hardening, causing discomfort.

The Food and Drug Administration reminds you to add fresh grated ginger when cooking crabs, because ginger has the effect of warming, dispersing cold and detoxifying; at the same time, when eating crabs, some people like to drink a little warm rice wine, which is actually a It is a good way to use the warm and pungent wine to relieve the coldness of crabs. If citizens feel gastrointestinal discomfort after eating crab, they can boil water with ginger slices and drink it while it is hot, which has the effect of warming the stomach.

Finally, in addition to washing and decontaminating raw crabs before steaming, the internal organs such as crab gills, crab stomach and crab heart must also be removed. The Food and Drug Administration reminds us that crab gills grow on both sides of the crab body and are arranged in strips, shaped like eyebrows. They are the respiratory organs of the crab. There are germs and dirt on them, and eating them is not good for the body. The crab stomach is located on the crab body. The front half contains a lot of sludge and germs; the heart of the crab is closely connected to the stomach and is located in the middle of the crab roe. It has an astringent taste and should be removed to ensure safe crab eating.

Reference: Xinhuanet---The Food and Drug Administration reminds us that there are "taboos" in eating crabs