It is the testicle of a sheep, also known as the external loin of a sheep.
Sheep testicles are a kind of high-protein nutrients, different from other tissues in the animal body, with primitive nature, it is from the mother's body before birth, not the formation of the latter, so it is called the primitive protein, is a kind of unique tissues of the animal organism.
China's traditional Chinese medicine believes that sheep testicles (sheep's egg) has the effect of tonifying the kidney, nourishing the yin and essence, anti-fatigue, etc., which can improve the animal's sexual ability, enhance the body's immunity, anti-fatigue, and strengthen the body's role.
Sheep testicles are important biochemical raw materials in modern biochemical industry. Sheep testis and its mesenchymal cells are important biochemical extraction raw materials. The gene expression method can be used to extract a series of important biochemical intermediates, such as: myosin peptide glycoside solution, which provides cellular nutrition; sheep testis transfer factor, which is an important cellular transfer, as well as sheep testis peptide, which can improve the microcirculation of the human body and ensure the development of the human body's secondary cellular organs, and so on.
Expanded Information
Sheep were an important foodstuff for sacrifice in ancient times. Sheep in the earliest cooking method, in addition to cannon, roast is for soup. After the Tang Dynasty, more and more ways to eat mutton. To the end of the Ming and early Qing dynasties, the development of the "whole sheep seat".
Anciently, the "whole goat seat", according to the sheep body head, neck, neck, brain, ribs, outer spine, grinding block, ridge, three forks, within the tendon, waist nest, tendon, chest, tail and other thirteen parts of the viscera and file material, with a variety of methods of cooking,
Must be "no way to and do not see sheep", and to "taste different", with sheep and each dish do not see sheep, and dish name is not allowed to show sheep, such as sheep ear ear tip called "wind flag", sheep eye called "phoenix eye pearl "and spare ribs called" Wenchenhu board "and so on.
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