Yes, the maturity period of a sea cucumber is five years, and this is talking about a wild sea cucumber, and a five-year sea cucumber is in his prime.

Why do we have sea cucumbers on the market that don't have such a long growing period? That's because there were no wild sea cucumbers at the end of the seventies in our country, and what we have seen are farmed sea cucumbers. This is just like the meat chickens we eat in our daily life and the free-range chickens in the countryside. Generally speaking, in order to make the sea cucumber grow fast, they feed the sea cucumber with growth hormone, antibiotics and other hormones, so that the sea cucumber of 3 to 5 months can grow to the size of a sea cucumber of 3 to 5 years. That's why they will tell you that the sea cucumber you see is a mature sea cucumber. In fact, they are all the same species, the difference is that one is wild and the other is farmed.