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What's the difference between flower navel and round navel crab? Crab buying skills

​&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203;&# 8203; Autumn is the best season to eat crabs. At this time, crabs are the most fat, fresh and tender. The price of crabs has plunged recently. Friends who like to eat crabs must not miss this good season to eat crabs. When picking crabs, many people don't know how to distinguish between flower navel and round navel crabs, and how to pick the best crabs? This article brings you the difference between flower navel and round navel crabs and the buying skills of crabs. Let's have a look.

1、 The difference between flower navel and round navel crab

Flower navel crab is an immature female crab. It needs to take off its shell again to become a real female crab; The round navel crab is a mature female crab.

2、 What are the buying skills of crabs?

1. Look

The back shell of high-quality crab is cyan gray and shiny, the abdomen is white, the golden claws are clustered with yellow hair, the color is bright, the navel is round and convex outward, the limbs are firmly connected in a curved shape, large and healthy. If the back is yellow, the meat is thin and weak. In addition, if the activity is powerful, the crab crawling around is a strong and good crab.

2. Weigh

Look at the crabs that meet the requirements in appearance. Weigh their weight one by one. The ones with heavy hand feel are fat crabs. This trick is not applicable to river crabs and live sea crabs, because these crabs are often tied up.

3. Stripping

Peel off the navel cover of the crab. If there are many and neat crab roes in the shell, the crab is a good crab.

4. Pull

If you buy dead sea crabs, you should observe that the crab legs are intact. Gently pulling the crab legs has weak elasticity, indicating that they are fresh sea crabs. If you are not fresh, gently pulling the crab legs not only has no weak force, but also the crab legs are easy to break off.

5. Smell

If you smell the fishy smell of sea crabs, it means that the sea crabs have deteriorated and can no longer be eaten. Eating rotten sea crabs is very easy to cause food poisoning.

Around September of the lunar calendar, the female crab has mature gonads and plump meat. After October of the lunar calendar, the male crab has mature gonads and plump meat. We can eat it at the right time according to its maturity time.