The black part of the flower shell is intestinal gland and sea mud. As long as the flower nails spit out the sand, you can eat it. The black part does not need to be removed.

Although there are some undigested food and some metabolic wastes in the intestine, the flower beetle lives in the shallow sea bottom, and they feed on phytoplankton and a small amount of plankton. Their diet is relatively clean, so it doesn't matter if they eat it.

But if there is sea mud, there will be some residue in the flower nail, which is harmless to the body. If you open the shell, wash the flower nail and boil it, the sea mud will be washed very clean, but if you put it in a pot, the shells will meet again after heating, and it will be less delicious and troublesome to eat.

So whether to remove the black part depends on the individual. If it's not too much trouble, it can be removed. If it's too much trouble, let the flower nail spit out the sand. Cooking it will not affect the taste or health.

Special reminder: it is recommended to buy flowers in the afternoon. At this time, the flowers have been in the seafood stalls for a long time, so there is not so much sediment. Moreover, seafood stalls are all raised with sea crystals, so they won't die so fast, and flower nails are easy to spit out sediment.

Which part of the flower nail can't be eaten?

The body structure of the flower armor is relatively simple, except for the shell, the sand in the internal organs can not be eaten, and everything else can be eaten. Therefore, the most important thing to eat armor is to clean up the carapace and spit out the sand. As long as you do these two things, just make a nail plate and it will be delicious.

Recommended practice of flower armor

Stir-fried huajia

Ingredients: bud 1 kg, star anise 1, more than a dozen peppers, 3 dried red peppers (even small morning peppers), 3 slices of ginger, 2-3 shallots, garlic 1 petal, a little coriander, Pixian bean paste 1 spoon, sugar.

Exercise:

1. After buying the flower nail, soak it in oil and salt for a while, spit out the sediment and wash it.

2. Boil the water in the pot, iron the flower nail to the opening and take it out quickly. Drain the water for later use.

3. Cut shallots, dried red peppers and coriander into sections, flatten garlic cloves and break star anise into small pieces. Mix bean paste, sugar and cooking wine evenly.

4. Put cold oil in a hot pot, simmer on low heat, add pepper, star anise, ginger and garlic cloves, stir fry and add shallots and dried red peppers.

5. Turn to high heat, stir-fry the flower shells a few times, pour in the mixed bean paste+cooking wine+sugar, turn off the heat after stir-frying, sprinkle with coriander and turn over the waste heat.