Squid is a seafood, seafood is the use of marine animals made of cuisine, including fish, shrimp, shellfish and so on. Squid is also a kind of seafood, and contains high-quality protein and unsaturated fatty acid nutrition is very rich, the seafood allergy crowd is not recommended to eat.
1. squid, also known as soft fish, gun squid, is the mollusc phylum cephalopods, sheath subclass ten carpal order squid order open-eyed subobjects. Body conical, body color pale, with light brown spots, head large, anterior born with 10 tentacles, tail end of the fleshy fins are triangular, often in groups cruising in the ocean about 20 meters deep. The current market to see the squid has two kinds of squid: one is the trunk fat squid, its name is "gun squid"; one is the trunk slender squid, its name is "soft fish", small soft fish commonly known as "small tube child The small ones are commonly called "small tubers". Squid is edible, we often see iron plate squid, and the flavor is delicious, is a very tasty delicacy.
2. Squid, although it is customary to call them fish, in fact, it is not a fish, but a mollusk living in the ocean, the body is elongated, long conical, with a sucker at the front end. Squid body with two gills as a respiratory organ; the body is divided into the head, a very short neck and trunk. The body is elongated and long conical, two of which are longer. Taxonomically, the squid is an animal belonging to the phylum Mollusca - Cephalopoda - Subclass Diptera - Decapoda. The head is flanked by a pair of well-developed eyes and brachiopods that surround the mouth.
3. Squid and cuttlefish, octopus and other molluscan brachiopod seafood in the nutritional function is basically the same, are rich in protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium, and so on, and contains a very rich, such as selenium, iodine, manganese, copper, and other trace elements of food.
4. Although the cholesterol content in squid is high, squid contains a substance at the same time - taurine, and taurine has the effect of inhibiting the accumulation of cholesterol in the blood. As long as the ratio of taurine to cholesterol in the ingested food is above 2, the cholesterol in the blood will not rise. Squid has a high content of taurine and its ratio is 2.2. Therefore, when squid is consumed, cholesterol is just normally utilized by the body and does not accumulate in the blood. Most of the cholesterol in its body is concentrated in its visceral parts. There is no need to worry about increased cholesterol intake due to squid consumption.
5.? Squid has the effect of replenishing the deficiency, nourishing the yin and nourishing the face, etc. It can reduce the concentration of cholesterol in the blood, regulate blood pressure, protect the nerve fibers, activate the cells, and has a certain effect on the prevention of Alzheimer's disease and so on. In addition, squid also helps the liver detoxification, detoxification, can promote the body's metabolism, with anti-fatigue, nourishing the yin and nourishing the face, delay aging and other effects.
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