The high-quality crab has a blue-gray back nail with luster, a white abdomen, golden claws with yellow hairs, bright colors, a round navel protruding outward, and curved and firmly connected limbs, and is large and healthy. If the back is yellow, the meat is thin. In addition, if the activity is strong, the crabs crawling around are strong and good crabs.

Weigh by hand

For crabs whose visual appearance meets the requirements, they need to be weighed one by one, and the ones with heavy hand feel are fat crabs. This trick is not suitable for river crabs and live sea crabs because these crabs are often tied up.

fruit peel

Peel off the navel of the crab. If there are many neat and condensed crabs in the shell, this crab is a good crab.

Pull

If you buy a dead sea crab, you should observe whether the crab legs are intact. Gently pull the crab's leg, the elasticity is very weak, indicating that it is a fresh sea crab. If it is not fresh, gently pulling the crab leg is not only weak, but also easy to break.

smell

If you smell the fishy smell of sea crabs, it means that the sea crabs have gone bad and can't be eaten any more. Eating spoiled sea crabs is easy to cause food poisoning.

Timely consumption

Around September of the lunar calendar, female crabs have mature gonads and plump meat; After October of the lunar calendar, male crabs have mature gonads and plump meat, so they should be eaten at the right time.