Efficacy: Abalone itself has extremely high nutritional value, and abalone meat is rich in globulin. Because it is a deep-sea creature, it has the effect of nourishing yin and nourishing. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that it is a kind of seafood that supplements but is not dry. After eating it, there are no side effects such as toothache and nosebleeds. It's no harm to eat more.
Abalone meat also contains an ingredient called "Bao Su", which can destroy the metabolic substances necessary for cancer cells. Abalone is also an anticancer food on the table.
The function of abalone is not to lower blood pressure, but to regulate blood pressure in two directions, because abalone can "nourish yin, calm liver and strengthen kidney" and regulate adrenal gland secretion. Abalone has the effects of regulating menstruation, moistening dryness and benefiting intestines, and can be used to treat irregular menstruation, constipation and other diseases.
Suitable for the crowd: most people can eat abalone. People with frequent urination at night, asthma due to qi deficiency, unstable blood pressure and difficulty in concentration are suitable to eat more abalone. Diabetic patients can also use abalone as an adjuvant therapy, but it must be stewed with drugs to be effective.
Application: each time 1 piece.
Tips: Be sure to cook it thoroughly, and don't eat it half-cooked. Some people have stomachache when they spit abalone, because its high protein is difficult to digest.
Gout patients and people with high uric acid should not eat abalone meat and only drink a small amount of soup.
Although everyone loves abalone, people who have a cold, fever or sore throat due to yin deficiency should not eat it.
Interpretation of Abalone: Wealth and Power
Abalone, a very common shellfish in biology, has long been a delicacy in Chinese food. Even in today's materialistic world, only one percent of people in China can enjoy it. We find that the deep meaning of abalone goes beyond food and is associated with power and wealth, both in history and today. ]
Cao Cao loves abalone.
As early as the Qing court in China, there were records of all-inclusive banquets. It is said that at that time, when the big officials from all over the coastal areas appeared in the court, they used abalone as a gift. One official presented an abalone, seven officials presented seven abalones, and so on. One abalone is only one catty, and seven abalones are only seven abalones. The price of the former may be ten times higher than the latter. Obviously, at that time, these abalones were made into dried abalones before tribute, because they could not be alive when they entered the emperor's kitchen. A gentleman needs a kitchen, especially the emperor, who is the king of a country.
"Mencius once said: Seeing his life, he could not bear to see his death; I can't bear to eat its meat when I hear its voice. The monarch at that time should set a good example for all people and follow the path of Confucius and Mencius. Therefore, Cantonese cuisine, which is now popular in China and contains a lot of raw seafood, cannot be the court food of the royal family in China at that time. " Mr. Wang Xifu, who is extremely loyal to China's traditional culture and is now over 70 years old, said that his family is a famous family of traditional restaurants in Beijing, and now he is doing overall planning in a high-end restaurant trying to restore traditional Beijing cuisine.
As early as the 6th century, China's culture of eating abalone spread to Japan and South Korea, and then East Asians spread the custom of eating abalone to the whole world. The ancients in China listed abalone as one of the eight treasures of seafood a long time ago, and abalone ranked first in modern times. According to the biography of Han Wang Mang, the new emperor Wang Mang in the late Western Han Dynasty was greedy for abalone, especially when he was "worried but didn't eat", he would drink and eat abalone. When Cao Zhi mourned his father in the Eastern Han Dynasty, he also mentioned that Cao Cao liked to eat abalone before his death.
Abalone nourishing yin theory
"China people have long been different in appearance. Sea cucumber and shark's fin symbolize men and are aphrodisiac; Abalone bird's nest symbolizes women and nourishes yin. " In fact, the ancients in China always thought that abalone was a nourishing food that was very beneficial to the body. Some Chinese medicine theories believe that abalone can tonify deficiency, nourish yin, moisten lung, clear heat, nourish liver and improve eyesight, so it is called "eyesight fish". However, today's nutritionists believe that many extreme foods in China, including abalone, have not exceeded the conventional nutritional value.
background knowledge
The color of abalone shell varies with abalone species, food intake and growth environment. Abalone shells are rich in color, but mostly green-brown or reddish-brown, which is similar to the protective color of abalone living environment, such as rocks or seaweed. But the colors of different kinds of abalone are relatively stable. Black abalone that eats giant algae is blue-black, red abalone is deep red, and yellow abalone is reddish brown or dark green. Wild Haliotis discus hannai is mostly brownish green or brownish red, but artificial culture will grow a bright green shell by feeding kelp, Undaria pinnatifida or brown algae, while feeding laver will grow a dark red shell. Because of the irreversibility of abalone shell color, we can judge the origin and breeding mode of abalone by it. The whole shell is brownish red, which is wild abalone; Green feed abalone cultured in kelp to seawater cages in Dalian; Green in the front and brown in the back are abalone cultured in intertidal zone of Qingdao, and the shell surface is interlaced with dark red ribbons, while abalone cultured in cage in Fujian is fed with kelp and laver.