What is silver carp? In fact, silver carp is also called fat-headed fish, big-headed fish, and black silver carp, and it looks like silver carp. The body is flat, the head is large and wide, and the head length is about 1/3 of the body length. The mouth is also wide and slightly upturned. The eyes are low. The gill openings are larger and the gill cover membrane is well developed. The scales are thin and dense. The back is blue-black, the sides are dark brown with black or yellow spots, the belly is gray and white, and each fin is light gray. There is a horny ventral rib from the base of the pelvic fin to the anus. The pectoral fin is longer, and its trailing edge exceeds the base of the pelvic fin. In fact, silver carp is an important freshwater fish in China and is found in various river systems and lakes.

Silver carp is one of my country's traditional "four major fishes". Among the four major fishes, silver carp is a fish with a relatively mild temperament. Silver carp not only has a gentle personality, but also rarely fights for food when being farmed. It usually does not like to jump and is very easy to catch, giving people the feeling of a good old man. Therefore, silver carp is also known as "good man silver carp".

In daily life, many people often feel bitter when making silver carp. So, what is going on? In fact, the reason why it is bitter may be due to the following two reasons:

Firstly, the silver carp head contains a black film, which is very bitter, and the silver carp head The gall in the fish also contains a very bitter taste, so if the black film in the silver carp head is not cleaned, or the gall is accidentally broken when handling the silver carp, the fish meat will be stained with bitter fish bile, which will not completely remove the fish bile. If cleaned, there will still be a certain bitterness after stewing.

Second point, if you stew very stale silver carp, it may be bitter. After the silver carp dies, the bile in it will circulate into the fish tissue within a certain period of time, causing it to become bitter. Silver carp soup is bitter, which is commonly known as "gallbladder".

In short, the above two reasons may cause silver carp to suffer. So, when it feels bitter, can you still eat it? In fact, it is generally edible. Since it will be washed to a certain extent before stewing, the amount of intake will not be excessive, so there will be no side effects.