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What is the white jelly in the crab?
The white jelly in crabs may be crab paste, parasites or the gills of hairy crabs.

1. White jelly can be crab sauce. The main component of crab paste is male crab sperm, and the secondary component is fat. The natural state of crab paste is a blue-white translucent colloidal liquid; After steaming, it is translucent, sticky and a little greasy. Edible and delicious.

2. It may be a parasite infected by crabs. Crabs grow in a complex environment and are easily infected with parasites, so eating crabs must be disinfected at high temperature.

3. If the white jelly is linear and one end is fixed, it is the gill of the hairy crab, which is generally inedible.

Crab (Latin name: Brachyura, English name: Crab), also known as crab, is an arthropod mollusk. The amount of genetic material of this kind of organism is complex and varies greatly, often as many as 100 pairs. Common crabs are hairy crabs (river crabs, hairy crabs, clear water crabs) and swimming crabs. China is rich in crab resources, among which the hairy crabs produced in Gucheng Lake, Taihu Lake, gaoyou lake, Yangcheng Lake, Xiefu, Xinghua and Hongze Lake in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River are the top grade.