Mytilus is a common seafood food. Mytilus edulis has high nutritional value, containing 59. 1g of protein, 7.6g of fat, 277mg of calcium, 86 1mg of phosphorus and 24.5mg of iron per 10g. In addition, it also contains many vitamins and trace elements. Because fresh mussel meat is not easy to preserve, it is often cooked and dried to make mussels. When people buy dried mussels, it is best to choose ones that are not too big or too small and have a dark yellow color.

Before eating, put the dried mussels in a bowl, add hot water and blanch until soft, remove the hairy black intestines and stomach in the center of the mussels, remove the sand, wash them with clear water, then put them in a pot, add clear water and stew them with low fire. Braised ribs soup or chicken with dried mussels, extremely fresh. Fried mussels and radishes have a special taste. Dry mussels are fried in oil pan and boiled into soup, which tastes as good as shrimp soup. You can also make soup with watercress and bones.

Motherland medicine believes that mussels are warm and salty, and it is recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica that mussels have the effects of treating spleen injury, poor blood and fine aging, vomiting blood for a long time, low back pain due to bowel sounds and so on. There are many remedies.

Add hot water to the dried clams and blanch them until they become loose and soft. Wash them in clean water. You can stew soup with big bones and other materials, or stir-fry leeks or leeks.