Called silkworm pupa.

Silkworm pupa:

Alias, cocoon pupa, small bee children, is a high-protein nutrients. Silkworm spitting silkworm cocoon after about 4 days, it will become a chrysalis. The body shape is like a spinning whip, divided into head, chest, abdomen three body segments. The head is very small, long compound eyes and antennae, chest long thoracic feet and wings, bulging abdomen with 9 body segments.

When the silkworm first pupates, the body color is yellowish, the pupal body is tender and soft, and gradually it will become yellow, yellowish brown or brown, and the pupal skin is hardened. After about 12 to 15 days, when the pupal body begins to become soft again, the pupal skin is a little wrinkled and the color of the earth brown cocoon, it will become a moth.

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Nutritional value:

Worm pupa has a very high nutritional value, rich in protein (fresh pupa containing 51% of crude protein), fatty acids (crude fat accounted for 29%), vitamins (including vitamin A, vitamin B2, vitamin D and ergosterol, etc.). The protein content of silkworm pupae is more than 50%, much higher than the general food, and the protein in the essential amino acids are complete. Silkworm pupa protein consists of 18 kinds of amino acids, of which 8 kinds of essential amino acid content is very high. Silkworm pupa of these 8 essential amino acid content is about 2 times as much as pork, 4 times as much as eggs, 10 times as much as milk, and nutritionally balanced, proportionally appropriate, is a high-quality insect protein.

Silkworm pupa is a senior nutritional tonic for the weak, the sick, the elderly and women after childbirth. Silkworm pupa can produce pharmacologically active substances that can effectively increase the level of white blood cells in the human body, thus improving the body's immune function and slowing down the aging of the human body functions.

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