Sea cucumber is rich in protein, less fat and cholesterol.

Sea cucumber is known as "Arginine Monopoly", which contains 8 kinds of essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by human body, among which arginine and lysine are the most abundant. It also contains special active nutrients, such as sea cucumber acidic mucopolysaccharide, sea cucumber saponin (sea cucumber toxin), sea cucumber lipids, sea cucumber collagen, taurine, etc. It is also known as the "Arginine Monopoly".

Other active ingredients in sea cucumber are sea cucumber saponin and acidic mucopolysaccharide of sea cucumber composed of aminosugar, glucuronic acid and fucose, etc. It also contains 18 kinds of amino acids and no cholesterol. Sea cucumber is rich in trace elements, especially calcium, vanadium, sodium, selenium and magnesium. Vanadium, a trace element contained in sea cucumber, ranks first among all kinds of food.

Each 100 grams of fresh sea cucumber contains 77.2 grams of water, 16.6 grams of protein, 0.3 grams of fat, 3.7 grams of ash, 0.9 grams of carbohydrates, 0.03 milligrams of thiamine, 0.05 milligrams of riboflavin, 28.5 milligrams of calcium, 43 milligrams of potassium, 502.9 milligrams of sodium, 149 milligrams of magnesium, 13.2 milligrams of iron, 0.76 milligrams of manganese, 0.63 milligrams of zinc, 0.05 milligrams of copper. mg, copper 0.05 mg, phosphorus 28 mg, selenium 63.93 mcg, and niacin 0.01 mg.

Sea Cucumber Physiological Characteristics:

The most common animal in 10,000-meter deep sea trench is sea cucumber. However, deep sea cucumbers are not edible. Edible sea cucumbers mostly inhabit hard rocky bottom, coral reef bottom or coral sand bottom. They can creep slowly on the seabed, or lurk on the sandy bottom or hide under the rocks. Spiny sea cucumbers have the phenomenon of "summer hibernation", and jade-footed sea cucumbers have the phenomenon of "winter hibernation".

Shield-handed sea cucumbers feed on organic debris and tiny organisms in the sediment, such as seaweeds, foraminifera, radiolarians, flexipeds, mesopods, and small shellfish, etc., which are swallowed into the mouth along with the sediment. They rely on shield-shaped tentacles, shoveling or raking the surface of the sediment, and some species have a rhythmic feeding, which is related to the intensity of light. In fact, the "summer hibernation" of the ginseng is also a kind of seasonal rhythm. Some peltasts are selective and can choose organic matter-rich sediments to feed on.

Since the sea cucumber is a sediment feeder, the sea cucumber has a role to play in transporting sediments from the sea floor. The feeding behavior of sea cucumbers of the order Branchiostoma is different from that of sea cucumbers of the order Peltastoma, which are suspension feeders, i.e., they feed on plankton in the seawater by means of their tentacles. Sea cucumbers that live on the bottom of sand and mud, such as taro cucumbers and anchor cucumbers, swallow the sediment around their burrows, digest the organic nutrients in the sediment, and the undigested material is excreted and piled up into a pile of feces near the tail of the larva.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Sea Cucumber