Shrimp does not belong to the cold food, nor does it belong to the hot food, but belongs to the warm food.

Shrimp is a seafood product that is relatively mild in nature, and shrimp is also divided into saltwater shrimp and freshwater shrimp, no matter which type of shrimp is a warm food.

Shrimp is rich in protein, so neither cool nor hot. And shrimp is rich in zinc and iodine, calcium and other trace elements. Shrimp calories and fat is very low.

Shrimp skin is rich in calcium, but also contains a kind of animal fiber known as chitin, which is a kind of polysaccharide, after chemical treatment and dissolve it in water can be made into chitosan.

Tips for picking fresh shrimp

1, buy live shrimp: in the case of economic conditions allow, try to buy live shrimp. In the selection of live shrimp, you can look at the shrimp's vitality, if it looks particularly energetic, lively, it shows that the shrimp is very fresh. If basically do not like to move too much, it means that the shrimp caught up has been a period of time.

2, look at the shrimp whiskers and head: if the shrimp whiskers are very complete, long and unbroken, it is fresh. Then look at the head of the shrimp, to see if there is no breakage, the connection if the soft scattered connection is not close, that shrimp is not fresh.

3, touch the surface of the shrimp: if the surface of the shrimp is very elastic, can feel the shrimp Q bullet, it means that it is relatively fresh, if the touch is very hard, and the surface of the shrimp mucus, it is less fresh.

4, smell the flavor of shrimp: fresh shrimp smell a seawater flavor NaiShi, a little fishy, but not unpleasant. And not fresh shrimp, smell will have a fishy odor, which is actually quite good to distinguish.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shrimp