Sea cucumber is suitable for people with class anxiety. While ordinary people eat an egg every day to supplement their nutrition, people with class anxiety must eat sea cucumber, otherwise they can't show their superiority. That's a bit mean, but from a nutritional standpoint, sea cucumbers are a few steps behind eggs.
Sea cucumber enthusiasts will say that sea cucumbers are high in protein and low in fat. Let's see, the protein content of fresh sea cucumber is about 16%, which is still relatively high. But usually we eat basically eat dried sea cucumber soaked in water. After absorbing a lot of water, the protein content of sea cucumber is less than 10%. Even if you eat 100 grams of sea cucumber a day, you will only eat 10 grams of protein. What is the concept? A medium-sized egg contains 8 grams of protein! Isn't it worse than an egg?
The quality of sea cucumber protein is also problematic, with 70% being collagen. The amino acids in collagen are most abundant in glycine, followed by alanine, glutamic acid and arginine, which are non-essential amino acids. And cysteine, tryptophan, tyrosine and methionine and other essential amino acid content is low, therefore, collagen is incomplete protein, is not a high-quality protein, the human body absorption and utilization rate is low. The amino acid composition of egg protein is close to the proportion of human body, complete essential amino acids, is a representative of high-quality protein, human absorption and utilization rate is close to 100%. The egg is not a few blocks away from the sea cucumber?
Sea cucumber lovers may say that sea cucumber also has a variety of nutrients with medicinal value, which can improve immunity, anti-aging, and even anti-cancer. Indeed, some chemicals found in sea cucumbers, such as sea cucumber saponins and sea cucumber mucopolysaccharides, have been found to prolong the life of cells and slow down the growth of tumor cells in cell culture. But wait, medical professionals know that laboratory results are not necessarily effective in humans. In addition, to achieve the effective concentration in the laboratory, a person has to eat dozens of kilograms of sea cucumber every day...
Well, I'm not going to say anything bad about sea cucumbers, I'm afraid that some people will take sea cucumbers to hit me. To be fair, sea cucumber still has some nutritional value, just not as good as eggs at all after considering the cost effectiveness. Of course, if someone gives me sea cucumber, I will still eat it. But I would definitely choose eggs myself.