The thin and dim colors are dirty. If you eat crabs in the wrong season, the soft ones may be unshaped or scattered crab roe.
1. The ovaries and digestive glands in crabs are orange and delicious.
Crab roe is not crab eggs. Although the ingredients are basically the same as crab eggs, there are essential differences between the two.
Crab roe does contain egg cells that have not been excreted from the body, but there are other crab organs, glands, tissue fluid and other substances, not just crab eggs.
When the crab roe becomes larger in size and becomes bright orange, it means that the gonads of the female crab have matured. At this time, crab eggs are produced and expelled from the body. The egg cells remaining in the gonads of the body are still part of the crab roe.
2. Crab roe is rich in protein, phospholipids and other nutrients. It is rich in nutrients, but it also contains high levels of fat and cholesterol.
Crab roe can be made into many delicacies: crab roe porridge, etc.
Shanghai Tang also has a famous delicious snack - crab meat dumplings.
As the name suggests, the main ingredient is crab roe.
There are two types of crab roe: river crab roe and sea crab roe.
3. Crab paste may also be fat.
Because in preparation for the winter, male crabs gradually accumulate fat and grow into crab paste (commonly known as crab oil).
When you peel off the shell of a male crab, you can see that there is white and sticky stuff in the crab shell and lumps, which is crab paste (crab oil).
After cooking, the crab paste becomes translucent.
The more crab paste there is, the stronger the male crab is.
4. In the wild environment, in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the crab roe of female crabs is the most plump; in October, the crab paste (crab oil) of male crabs is the thickest.
Therefore, in the past, there was a saying of "nine females and ten males" when eating crabs.
Meaning: Female crabs are eaten in the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and male crabs are eaten in the tenth month of the lunar calendar.