You cannot eat the liver of soft-shelled turtles. The livers of soft-shelled turtles contain certain toxins.

Dietary taboos for soft-shelled turtles:

1. Dead or spoiled soft-shelled turtles cannot be eaten; boiled soft-shelled turtles have no medicinal value.

2. Mixing raw turtle blood and bile with wine will cause the drinker to be poisoned or suffer from severe anemia.

3. It is difficult to get rid of the fishy smell of soft-shell turtle meat. Just washing or adding onions, ginger, wine and other seasonings cannot achieve satisfactory results; when slaughtering soft-shell turtles, remove the viscera from the soft-shell turtle meat. Pick out the gallbladder and take out the bile. After washing the soft-shell turtle, add some water to the soft-shell turtle bile and apply it to the whole body of the soft-shell turtle. Wait for a while and rinse it with clean water. The soft-shell turtle bile is not bitter, so don't worry about making the soft-shell turtle meat bitter.

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People who should not eat turtle:

1. Insomnia, pregnant women and postpartum diarrhea are also not suitable for eating. Although it has the effect of nourishing yin and replenishing the kidneys, soft-shelled turtle has a salty and cold taste, and has a strong effect on dredging blood channels and dispersing blood clots. Therefore, it has certain disadvantages in abortion, especially the abortion power of turtle shell is stronger than that of turtle meat. .

3. People with weak gastrointestinal function and indigestion should eat with caution. Especially patients suffering from gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer, cholecystitis and other digestive system diseases should not consume it. People with weak spleen and stomach should not eat too much, otherwise they will often become inattentive to food, feel full in the abdomen, and even cause diarrhea.

3. Young children should eat less soft-shelled turtles. Soft-shell turtle is a high-protein tonic. Children's spleen and stomach are delicate. When consumed, it may cause indigestion and increase the burden on the spleen and stomach, so eat less.

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