Shrimp is a very rich food with high nutritional value in protein, in which the contents of vitamin A, carotene and inorganic salts are relatively high, while the fat content is not only low, but also mostly unsaturated.

Fatty acids can prevent and treat atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease. In addition, shrimp has fine muscle fibers, soft tissue protein structure and high water content, so the meat quality is better.

The meat is tender, easy to digest and absorb, and suitable for patients, the elderly and children.

Different shrimps have almost the same nutritional value except for their different tastes. Sea shrimp is more delicious than river shrimp, because it is tough and chewy. Very common in China.

There are more than 500 species of sea shrimp, and different species have different names in different places. The common ones are lobster, prawn, Pipi shrimp, white shrimp, new prawn with knife forehead, dried shrimp and so on.

Among all the sea shrimps, prawns taste delicious. Due to the infection of a viral infectious disease in China a few years ago, almost all the prawns were extinct, and now they are farmed in the market.

Most of the prawns are imported from abroad. Neo-Penaeus monodon was originally a new kind of shrimp cultured in shrimp farms in Guangdong and other places. Because its body length is usually seven or eight centimeters, it comes late.

Scientists call this length of shrimp Neopenaeus monodon. Lobster is similar to crab in nutritional value and taste, and its muscle fiber is rough, so it is not as fresh as other shrimps, so it is currently on the market.

Lobsters are expensive, mainly because most of them are imported from Australia. Pipi shrimp, also known as squid shrimp, is produced in the waters north of the Yangtze River estuary, and tastes best when the gonads mature in spring.

Delicious, even more than any other kind of shrimp; However, after laying eggs, the taste of Pipi shrimp will become worse and the body will become very thin.

In addition, Chinese medicine believes that sea shrimp is sweet, salty and warm in nature, and has the effects of appetizing and resolving phlegm, invigorating qi and strengthening yang, and invigorating qi and promoting lactation, and is moderately effective for impotence due to kidney deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, soreness of bones and muscles and pain.

It has certain curative effect on hemiplegia caused by wind. However, shrimp is hair, and people who suffer from sores due to yin deficiency or get angry should not eat shrimp.

Shrimp contains high-quality protein, with the content of 18% in fresh shrimp and 50% in dried shrimp. The mineral content in shrimp is very rich. Every100g of shrimp contains146g of calcium.

Phosphorus 196 mg, iron 3.0 mg, zinc 1.44 mg. Every100g of shrimp skin contains as much as1760mg of calcium, 0/000mg of phosphorus and 6.7mg of iron.

Chinese medicine believes that shrimp is sweet and salty and has the effect of tonifying kidney and strengthening yang.

Treating kidney deficiency, yang failure, low back pain and fatigue: Fried leek with shrimp is an effective nutritional value.