Cool water is better. There is no strict requirement on the water temperature when cooking sea cucumber, cold water or boiling water can be used. Cold water can maximize the moisture of sea cucumber, which can make sea cucumber meat more tender, while hot water can cook sea cucumber quickly, which can maximize the nutrients in sea cucumber.
Expanded Information
Sea cucumber is one of the world's eight treasures, along with ginseng, bird's nest and shark's fin. Sea cucumber is not only a precious food, but also a valuable medicinal herb. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica Gleanings", sea cucumber is sweet and salty in flavor, tonifying the kidney, benefiting the essence and marrow, taking in urine, strengthening the yang and curing impotence, and its nature is warm and tonic, sufficient for the enemy ginseng, so it is called sea cucumber.
Sea cucumber has the functions of improving memory, delaying gonadal aging, preventing arteriosclerosis and anti-tumor. With the popularization of the knowledge of the value of sea cucumber, sea cucumber gradually enters the people's table. The living environment determines the quality of sea cucumber.
Growth and reproduction
In order to ensure that the race will not be extinct, sea cucumbers have possessed a superb reproductive ability during the long process of natural selection and evolution. An adult sea cucumber over 4 years old can ovulate about 5 million eggs at a time during the spring breeding season. In this way, the continuation of the race can be guaranteed even if there is a survival rate of one in ten thousand.
Nutritional value
Sea cucumber contains more than 50 kinds of nutrients which are beneficial to human physiological activities. Its protein contains 18 kinds of amino acids, rich in taurine, chondroitin sulfate, mucopolysaccharides of sea cucumber and other active substances, calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, zinc, selenium, vanadium, manganese, and other elements as well as vitamins B1 and vitamins.
The protein in sea cucumber is water-soluble protein, which is easy to be digested and absorbed by human body, and it has strong effect of tonifying the kidney and strengthening the yang, benefiting the qi and replenishing the yin, and moistening and drying the intestines, and it can be used for the auxiliary treatment of cardio-cerebral and cerebral vascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, kidney deficiency and impotence, neurasthenia, and regenerative anemia. Chinese medicine believes that: sea cucumber is warm and tonic, suitable for long-term consumption, is the best food to strengthen the body and slow down aging.
Sea cucumber is high protein, low fat, low cholesterol food, so the traditional custom of sea cucumber as nourishing food, medical science also think that high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, hepatitis and the elderly and other consumption of sea cucumber is better.
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