The reason why the price of imported sea cucumber is lower than that of domestic sea cucumber is mainly because of the difference in dietary culture, "sea cucumber fever" is limited to China, while foreigners in Europe and America do not think sea cucumber "can be eaten", and the sea cucumber resources are not developed and there is no consumption boom. The resources of sea cucumber have not been developed and there is no consumer boom, so the price of sea cucumber abroad is very cheap. However, it is worth noting that foreigners do not eat sea cucumber, does not mean that the nutritional value of sea cucumber is not recognized, in fact, it is a problem of differences in food culture.
2. Imported sea cucumbers have their own advantages.
Foreign sea cucumbers are basically grown in natural sea areas. Since foreign countries pay attention to environmental protection and sea areas are not polluted, the quality of sea cucumbers is generally higher than that of domestic sea cucumbers. Due to different origins and varieties, foreign sea cucumbers are very different from domestic ones in appearance and color. Imported sea cucumbers are generally larger in size and have thicker meat. Domestic sea cucumber natural resources are very scarce and most of them are farmed species. Foreign sea cucumbers are usually purely wild and naturally grown, with a long growth period of 6 to 7 years, which has accumulated a high level of nutrients. The original ecological processing technology has preserved most of the nutrients, but the appearance is not beautiful. On the other hand, most of the domestic sea cucumbers are farmed, with a growth period of 1-3 years, and most of them have been salted and boiled for many times, and plasticizers are added to process them. Although their appearance is very beautiful, they have lost a lot of nutrients, and some of them even contain substances that are harmful to human beings. But you can't just assume that the sea cucumber is imported.
3. The quality of sea cucumbers cannot be divided into domestic and imported ones.
The quality of sea cucumber depends on the sea area where it grows. All the sea areas in the world produce sea cucumber, which are rich in resources and have better quality, such as the Japanese sea border, the Russian sea area, the Canadian sea area, and the American sea area, etc. But it does not mean that imported sea cucumber is good. However, it is not true that imported sea cucumber is necessarily good, for example, Icelandic sea cucumber, the nutrient composition and our domestic Liao Sen is much worse! Liao cucumber's growth latitude has a lot of plankton, sea cucumber can be eaten, so sea cucumber's nutrition is also rich! The Icelandic sea is a bit cold, with little plankton, so the nutritional value is naturally low. Ji Xiaolan, a university scholar in the Qing Dynasty, once said, "Sea cucumber is like a rank, and there are grades, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, Long Island has produced sea cucumbers as tribute for all dynasties, which is called the top grade, and the people seldom get to have a taste of it." Generally speaking, sea cucumber is better than Liao ginseng, Korean ginseng, Japanese Kanto ginseng, Russian red ginseng, and the worst is Arctic ginseng. In short, we try to choose sea cucumbers of big brands, so that the processing technology of sea cucumbers is also more reliable.
Therefore, consumers are reminded that when buying sea cucumbers, they need not pay too much attention to the appearance of the sea cucumber, while the year of growth, the environment, nutritional value and other factors are what they really need to consider. Imported sea cucumbers are also divided into different grades. For example, Italian sea cucumber, Oran, Bo Nian sea cucumber, are wild, 1 catty 40 heads, the price of 6000 ~ 10000 yuan. Russian and Ukrainian sea cucumbers are very similar to Liaoshen, and the price is almost 10,000 yuan a catty. South American sea cucumbers, Caribbean sea cucumbers, the South China Sea and other sea areas with higher temperatures, sea cucumbers grow fast and are suitable for consumption, with slightly lower nutritional value.