The cicada pupa is edible, because it contains a lot of protein and amino acids, which are essential to supplement the body's ability, and it also has a good effect of clearing away heat, detoxifying, nourishing and fighting cancer! Therefore, cicada pupa is not only a delicious and nutritious non-staple food, but also a valuable source of animal protein and a valuable raw material for extracting various chemicals.
However, there are many cicada pupae that can be eaten in any way. You should know that they are not edible without processing, and you should not eat them directly in cold salad or salted. Cicadas can only be eaten after being fried or directly cooked, because cicadas are actually not clean and need to be killed at high temperature, otherwise eating them directly will cause food poisoning, bacterial infection and so on!
There are also stale, discolored, black, pink, hemp-flavored or spicy cicada pupae that are not edible because they are not fresh, and of course, the cicada pupae with peculiar smell and stench are even more inedible. If the cicada pupa is left for too long, the cold weather exceeds 1 week, and the hot weather exceeds 20 hours, don't eat it with luck. If the cicada pupa is spoiled, it will not only lose its nutritional value, but also cause food poisoning, which is not worth the candle!
Cicadas used as medicine: the ancients used the body, and later generations used it. Generally speaking, cicada body should be used to treat skin sores, wind and heat, and cicada slough should be used, each according to its type, and it is also the main disease, and those who cry at night should take their daytime singing and rest at night. This is recorded in the compendium of materia medica, so it can be seen that cicada slough can treat hoarseness of throat, inflammation, skin acne and so on!
Cicadas can also treat women's postpartum weakness. In ancient times, women in poor families ate cicadas for postpartum tonic. You should know that 00 kilograms of fresh pupae contained protein, which was equivalent to 34 kilograms of lean pork or 30 kilograms of eggs. At that time, the nutritional value of cicadas was still very high when resources were scarce. In addition, there were amino acids in cicadas that could reduce the three highs when protein was supplemented, which was the bane of rich diseases!