The official name of "water rat": muskrat, who likes to eat muskrat meat in China, Guangdong and southern Guangxi. The price of a piece of dried muskrat meat is about 150- 190 yuan, and the muskrat meat stew in Shanghai Hotel is about 288 yuan. Muskrat meat is not only nutritious, but also a kind of food with special natural flavor without any seasoning. It's rare to find such delicious food now.
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Muskrat meat is tender, like poultry meat. The content of protein is as high as 19.5%, which is close to beef, but the fat content is low, nearly 3.6%, while the fat content of beef is 7.7%. Although the protein content of chicken is as high as 2 1.33% and the protein content of rabbit meat is as high as 2 1.47%, the fat content is also very high, which are 4.55% and 9.76% respectively. The protein content of pork is 14%, while the fat content is as high as 28. 10%. Therefore, muskrat meat is a kind of health food. With the development of muskrat breeding industry, the meat can be bled during slaughter, and the meat has no bloody smell, which obviously improves the quality of meat.
Musk gland of muskrat can extract perfume, which can be used to make natural and pollution-free cosmetic raw materials. It can not only replace musk as a valuable Chinese herbal medicine, but also be a raw material for making high-grade perfume. Musk rat incense contains normuscone, heptadecanone and other components, which not only has the same effect as natural musk, but also can prolong the time of blood coagulation and prevent and treat thrombotic diseases. Oil and fat can be used to make soap, leather and tableware coatings, fuel and additives in paint industry.
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