Shrimp is a famous seafood, has a high nutritional value was determined that every hundred grams of shrimp containing 58.1 grams of protein, fat 2.1 grams of sugar 4.6 grams of calcium 577 milligrams of phosphorus 614 milligrams of iron 13.1 milligrams of vitamins and so on.
Shrimp skin is mainly made from the processing of hairy shrimp.
Shrimp is China's largest production of marine shrimp shrimp resources, common Chinese shrimp and Japanese shrimp. The former is mainly distributed in the Yellow and Bohai Seas, the latter mostly seen in the East China Sea. The two are very similar, if not carefully observed, thought it was the same species of shrimp. Hairy shrimp individual small, generally only 3 centimeters, so it is not noticed. However, it is processed shrimp skin is one of the important seafood exported to China.
Hairy shrimp production, group concentration, a net catch up is often a colorful shrimp. Generally dried and processed into shrimp skin, solid shrimp small, meat solid dry products are easy to make people feel like shrimp skin, hence the name.
Shrimp skin has a high nutritional value, in order to measure the nutritional value of the protein content, per 100 grams of shrimp skin containing 39.3 grams, much higher than the yellowtail, yellow reparations, shrimp, scallops, pomfret and other aquatic products and beef, pork, chicken and other meat products.
Shrimp skin is another feature of the number of minerals, rich in variety, in addition to containing terrestrial, freshwater organisms lack of iodine, iron, calcium, phosphorus content is also very rich, per 100 grams of shrimp calcium and phosphorus content of 20,000 milligrams and 1,005 milligrams, especially the content of calcium, is any food can not be compared. Therefore, shrimp skin has been known as "calcium library" name.