Shrimp is a common food in our life. There are many kinds, including red shrimp, green shrimp, river shrimp, grass shrimp, prawn, prawn, lobster and so on. Shrimp has high nutritional value, and can be steamed or fried, which is very beneficial to people's health.

Shrimp is a must-have at banquets all over the world. It can act as a hard dish, which is similar to chicken, duck and fish. When eating shrimp, you must remove the shrimp line, because this is the intestinal digestive system of shrimp, and it is really dirty here.

Shrimp is one of our most common ingredients, which is favored by many people because of its delicious taste, convenient cooking and rich nutrition.

However, whether the shrimp head can be eaten when eating shrimp has always been controversial. Should the shrimp head be eaten?

1, what's in the shrimp head?

In our food culture, there has always been a saying that what we eat supplements what we eat, and there is never a lack of ingredients such as "head" and "brain" in our recipes, such as the famous fish head with chopped pepper, the snack pig brain flower, the spicy rabbit head, the roasted sheep head, etc. Is the shrimp head also worth eating?

Shrimp is different from the above animals. Because of the different structure of the organism itself, almost all the internal organs of shrimp grow in its head, and only one shrimp intestine runs through the body for excretion. There are not only good things we think, such as shrimp yellow and shrimp paste, but also shrimp gills, heart, liver, stomach, various glands and so on. These things are easy to cause allergies and diarrhea, which is why crab heart has always been said to be "a cold thing".

2, our attitude towards food can generally be simply divided into:

① Never eat: The things that belong to this category are basically spoiled and rotten, and will bring more serious consequences, such as: sprouting green potatoes (with solanine), moldy peanuts (possibly with aflatoxin), and unknown mushrooms (with higher risk of poisoning).

2 It is not recommended to eat: such as shrimp head (shrimp food, excrement, heavy metals and other residues).

3 Edible: Except for the first two, all other foods belong to this category.

3. Can the shrimp head be eaten?

In fact, through the above introduction, everyone can already see that our answer to the question "Can the head of shrimp be eaten?" is: yes, but it is not recommended.