The puffer fish, also known as the bubble fish, is a kind of danger or angry when the abdomen will bulge into a bubble ornamental fish, its meat can be eaten, and high nutritional value, so it is very popular, but the puffer fish is poisonous, handling to pay attention to the puffer fish where it is poisonous? How to deal with the non-toxic?

I. Introduction of puffer fish:

1. How long can puffer fish live?

The life span of puffer fish can reach more than 30 years, and it can reach sexual maturity in 4-10 years. Puffer fish likes to live in the deep water of rivers and seldom comes near the shore and boats. It often swims to the shallow water to chase fish and shrimp to fulfill its hunger, and often swims to the shallow water of the shore to hunt for food in the morning and evening.

2. How does the pufferfish bulge?

The esophagus at the front of the intestines in the puffer fish's body is a very elastic bag, which can be inflated and swollen, and the skin of the puffer fish's abdomen is very loose, and when it encounters danger or gets angry, it rushes out of the water and opens its mouth to inhale a large amount of air, which enters the esophagus and then the puffer fish expands up.

The puffer fish is poisonous.

The ovaries, liver, muscle and blood of puffer fish are poisonous, among which the ovaries and liver are the most toxic, and the muscle and blood also contain a small amount of tetrodotoxin. Tetrodotoxin toxicity varies with the seasons and is most toxic in spring. Tetrodotoxin is a neurotoxin, human ingestion of 0.5mg-3mg can be fatal, generally to 120 degrees heating for 1 hour to destroy, in addition to salt pickling, sun can not destroy the toxin, visible toxin is very strong, so when encountered to pay attention to, especially when dealing with, if not the best professionals do not get, to avoid poisoning.

Three, how to deal with puffer fish is not poisonous?

The tetrodotoxin is very difficult to destroy, generally heating at 120 degrees for 1 hour in order to destroy, so in the processing of puffer fish, to remove the toxic part of the specific processing steps are as follows:

Step one, along the puffer fish mandibular teeth in the middle seam of the knife to the anus, take out the viscera, air sacs and gills.

Step 2: Wash out the blood and silt where the spine of the puffer fish is connected to the head, and then make an incision from the head along the spine to the tail end to take out the brain and the outer membrane and the blood and silt in the spine.

Step 3: Puncture the puffer fish's eyes and squeeze out the liquid inside.

Step 4: Rip out the air sacs under the skin and flesh on both sides of the pufferfish, and cut the blood groove in the middle of the pufferfish's tail with scissors to open the blood from the root.

Step 5: Peel off the skin of the puffer fish, then wash the whole puffer fish with water to clean the blood and dirt, boil the water, and finally soak the puffer fish in water for 1-4 hours, during which time change the water for 3-5 times until there is no foreign color in the water.

Pufferfish ovaries, liver, muscle, blood are poisonous, and the highest level of toxins in the spring, so the treatment should be careful not to be carried out in the spring, and in case of inadvertent poisoning, should be immediately vomiting, gastric lavage, and timely access to medical care. Specific treatment methods can refer to the above steps, if you do not know how to deal with, you can get to the point of sale to call a person specialized in processing.