Live crabs frozen in the refrigerator, after a month to take out, can not eat.
Live crabs directly into the freezer to save, if the time is not more than a week then you can continue to eat, but generally do not recommend that the crabs into the freezer to save, because the freezer temperature is lower, if you put the crabs directly into it, the crabs will easily freeze inactivated, the meat will change, which will make the crabs eat up the lack of fresh taste, the meat will lack of fresh taste. The meat will also lack elasticity, so it is generally recommended to put the crab directly into the refrigerator to keep it cold.
Other precautions for eating crabs
Crab should be steamed and eaten now, and not stored: if you can't finish it, the rest must be kept in a clean, cool and ventilated place, and it must be boiled and steamed again when you eat it.
Crab to eat fresh, dead crab should not be eaten: river crab dead stiffness and autolysis period is greatly shortened, the bacteria in the crab body will rapidly multiply and spread to the crab meat, so that the eater vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea. The shells of fresh live crabs are greenish-black, glossy, with a full umbilicus and a white abdomen. Dying crabs have yellow shells and soft legs, making it difficult to turn them over.