High nutritional value. In Chinese mainland, there are many food stalls that use various cooking methods to cook clams. The meat is delicious, rich in nutrition, high in protein and reasonable in amino acid composition and proportion; Low fat content, high unsaturated fatty acid content, easy to be digested and absorbed by human body, containing a variety of vitamins and medicinal ingredients. It contains calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and other essential trace elements, which can be used as human nutrition and green food, and is favored by consumers. Clam meat and mollusks contain cholesterol-lowering agents 7- cholesterol and 24- methylene cholesterol, which can lower serum cholesterol. They have the unique functions of inhibiting liver cholesterol synthesis and accelerating cholesterol excretion, thus reducing cholesterol in the body. They are more effective than sitosterol, a commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug.

Chinese medicine believes that mussel meat has the effects of nourishing yin, improving eyesight, softening and resolving phlegm, and some shellfish are also beneficial to refinement, moistening dryness and turning dirty. Everyone can eat it. It is especially suitable for people with high cholesterol and hyperlipidemia and people with goiter, bronchitis and stomach diseases.