A few days ago, a netizen exposed his purchase of Peppermint shrimp was injected with glue, and shot a video to support. In the video, the sister of the righteous indignation to condemn the injection of gelatin shrimp. The truth is in fact so, she said "glue" is the seed of the shrimp, now is the shrimp ready to set seed time, so the female shrimp body will have immature shrimp yolk, and not what glue. Please do not be misled and let the rumor spread more and more widely.

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Identify the "injected shrimp" method

1, through the sensory such as the naked eye, the shrimp head is injected with glue will be swollen, shrimp injected with glue, the hand press the shrimp body will have a noticeable rebound, while the normal shrimp body has a phenomenon of subsidence. Press the shrimp body meat is very elastic, if the finger pinch rebound force is very large, and there is no sense of subsidence, it may be injected shrimp. You can pry open the hard shell of the shrimp to see if there is a gelatinous substance inside.

2, according to "glue shrimp" may be added to gelatin and agar and other substances with different melting points, you can take the heating or boiling methods to identify whether there are illegal additives in the shrimp.

The truth is: what she said "glue" is actually the seeds of the Peppermint shrimp, now is the Peppermint shrimp ready to set seed, so the female shrimp body will have immature shrimp yolk, and is not what the glue ...... crawling shrimp with seeds, the price may be more expensive.