Mussels can live in fresh water. Mussels can survive for 10 to 15 days in a bucket of water, and fresh mussels can survive for 6 days in a humid environment of 5 degrees. In the natural environment, mussels generally live in rivers, lakes, ponds, streams and other muddy, sandy or gravel, and when it is hot, most of them are exposed outside the mud. Mussels have a high nutritional value, containing protein, fat and other nutrients, mussel meat has good health effects on the human body.

Mussels are very weak, the environment is calm, by the ligament pulling, emblem slightly open double shell, slowly extend the axe foot. General axe feet to the front of the shell out, and fixed in the mud, and then contraction of the clam body to move forward. This crawl is very slow, usually only a few centimeters a minute.

After the mussels bought home, do not rush to cook, but to be placed in the water, and put some salt in the water, so that about two to three days, to be spit out of the sand and mud and then cooked, the fresh flavor is particularly prominent.

Fresh mussels, mussel shell cover is tightly closed, not easy to break open by hand, smell of fishy odor, open the mussel shell with a knife, the internal color is bright, white meat; such as mussels closed not tightly, with a hand break open. Mussels have a fishy smell, gray meat, is a dead mussels, bacteria are most likely to reproduce, the meat is easy to decompose and produce spoilage, the mussels can not be eaten.