Golden hairtail is a specialty of Dongshan Island in China, which is caught every spring. Its size is very small, and the fish is very delicate and delicious.
Hairtail with golden thread has extremely high nutritional value, and is rich in fat, protein, B vitamins, vitamin A, unsaturated fatty acids and various nutrients (phosphorus, calcium, iron, iodine, etc. ).
Hairtail is a common food in daily life, mostly silver-gray, with tiny spots on the body surface and black tail. It feeds on shrimp and squid.
Hairtail is widely distributed in the world, especially in the East China Sea, Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea of China. Together with large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker and squid, it is also called China's four seas fresh.
In China, hairtail can be divided into two categories:
1. Hairtail is relatively large in the north, generally wintering in the south of the Yellow Sea and swimming to the Bohai Sea in spring, forming a spring fish season.
2. The southern hairtail moves north and south according to different seasons, moving north in spring and south in winter. Hairtail in the East China Sea can be divided into spring flood and winter flood.
Hairtail is omnivorous and gluttonous, and mainly feeds on shrimp, squid and various fish. Hairtail is deeply loved by ordinary people because of its low fat, less thorns, delicious taste and rich nutrition. When eating fresh, you can roast, roast, fry, roast, fry, stew, stew, steam, smoke, make soup, cook porridge and so on. , can make different flavors of food. In addition, it can also be processed into canned hairtail and soft canned hairtail (steamed, spicy, spicy, etc. ), salty hairtail, bad hairtail, frozen hairtail, etc.
The research shows that hairtail is rich in nutrition, including protein, fat, carbohydrate, vitamins (A, B 1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, B 12, C, D, E), macroelements and trace elements (K, Na, Ca, P, E). The protein content of hairtail is 17.7%, which is higher than that of ordinary pork (fat and thin), and there are amino groups in its components.