Shrimp is sea shrimp.
Shrimp meat is plump, tasty, rich in protein. Prawns live in the shallow sea sediment layer, spring migration spawning. Chinese medicine believes that its taste sweet alkaline warm, can tonic kidney and yang, nourishing Yin stomach, suitable for a variety of cooking method dishes.
Shrimp warm and wet, sweet and salty taste, into the kidney, spleen meridian; shrimp meat has a tonic kidney and yang, lactation and anti-toxicity, nourish the blood to fix the essence, remove blood stasis and detoxification, benefit qi and nourish the yang, through the pain, appetizer phlegm, etc.;
Suitable for impotence of kidney deficiency, spermatorrhea, breast milk, tendon and bone pain, convulsions of the hands and feet, generalized itchiness, skin ulcers, weakness and neurasthenia, and other patients to eat.
Ming shrimp body is a very important substance is astaxanthin, is the surface of the red-colored components, astaxanthin is the discovery of one of the strongest antioxidants, the darker the color indicates that astaxanthin content is higher. Widely used in cosmetics, food additives, and pharmaceuticals. Scientists at Osaka University in Japan have found that astaxanthin in shrimp can help eliminate jet lag.
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Selection Methods:
Selection method:Shrimp shells are glossy, shrimp heads and shells are tightly attached to the body of the shrimp, hard and strong, without peeling. Shrimp meat is tightly organized and elastic. If the shrimp head and shell reddened, blackened, should not be purchased.
Storage method:
Shrimp, if you need to save, you need to cut off the whiskers, spread a layer of ice in the bottom of the container, then sprinkle salt, arrange the shrimp, and then another layer of ice, and finally sealed with a sack or straw bag, so that it can be preserved for up to a week. Alternatively, place the shrimp in a Ziploc bag (make sure the safe doesn't leak), then fill the safe with some water, and place the bag tightly closed in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator. Note that fresh shrimp is not suitable.
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