The female crab has crab roe.

Crab yellow is rich in nutrients such as protein and phospholipids, but it also contains high content of oil and cholesterol. Crab yolk can be made into many delicious foods: crab yolk porridge, crab yolk tofu and so on.

2 is crab yellow only available to female crabs?

Crab yellow is unique to female crabs.

Some people want hairy crabs to have more crab yellow, so it is difficult to buy male crabs or female crabs. In fact, if they want to eat crab roe, they must buy a female crab. The male crab has no crab yellow, and the part of the male crab corresponding to the crab yellow of the female crab is white crab paste.

Which part of crab is crab yellow?

The ovaries and digestive glands in crabs are orange and delicious.

Crab yolk is not a crab egg. Although its composition is basically the same as crab roe, there are essential differences between them. Crab yolk does contain eggs that have not been excreted, but there are other crab organs, glands, tissue fluids and other substances, not just crab eggs. When the crab roe becomes large and bright orange, it shows that the gonad of the female crab has matured. At this time, crab eggs are produced and excreted, and the egg cells left in the gonads in the body still belong to crab yellow.