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What's the difference between shrimp and prawns?

One, the color

1, nine-section shrimp body has a deep and shallow horizontal lines, cooked with a clear nine-section white pattern.

2, shrimp body quite and have curvature, shrimp section between the shell separated from each other, can be freely retracted, shrimp cooked color into orange-red.

Two, different habitats

1, nine shrimp usually live in the junction of fresh and salt water, like to live in the sand or muddy substrate, generally submerged during the day, the evening appetite is the strongest, began frequent foraging activities.

2, shrimp is a saltwater shrimp, inhabiting the shallow coastal waters, often diving into the sandy bottom during the day, not for a wide range of movement

Extended information

Pick the shrimp notes

1, the body shape of the curved: fresh shrimp head and tail intact, the head and tail and the body are closely linked to the body, the body of shrimp is more quite, there is a certain degree of flexibility and curvature. And not fresh shrimp, head and body, shell and meat connected to the slack, head and tail easy to fall off or separate, can not maintain its original curvature.

2, the body surface dry: fresh shrimp body appearance clean, dry feeling with the hand. But when the shrimp body nearly deteriorated, a layer of mucus secretion under the crustacean granular cell disintegration, a large number of mucus seepage to the body surface, touch there is a slippery feeling. If the shrimp shell sticky hands, that shrimp has been spoiled.

3, bright color: different types of shrimp, its color is slightly different. Fresh shrimp, Rochester shrimp, grass shrimp green, sea-caught shrimp pink, bamboo shrimp, shrimp have black and white pattern slightly pink. If the shrimp hair black is not fresh shrimp, the whole shrimp color is darker, not bright, also indicates that has deteriorated.

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