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How to eat the best crab in autumn? What are the benefits of eating crabs?

Golden autumn and October is the best season to eat crabs. Crabs are very common food in our life. Eating crabs properly can bring many benefits to our health. However, there are many points to pay attention to when eating crabs. How to choose crabs in autumn? Let's take a look at them with sihai.com!

How to choose crabs

I. rapid identification

1. Whether it falls: it will not sink in the hand.

2. Press the claw by hand to check whether the meat of the crab is dry.

3. If there is enough crab cream, it is best to have the full or bulging end of the crab.

4. If the crab paste is bright, red color will appear on both sides of the crab navel (commonly known as "red mark" in the line), it is a good crab.

II. Five aspects

Look at the crab shell. The back of the shell is dark green with light, which is thick and strong; the back of the shell is yellow, mostly thin and weak.

Look at the navel. For those with protruding navel, they are all full of cream and fat; for those with sunken navel, most of them are not fat enough.

Third, look at pincers. All the fluff on the claw foot is clumped, and all the claw feet are old and healthy. If there is no fluff on the claw foot, the body is soft and weak.

Fourth, vitality. Turn the crab around with its abdomen facing up to the sky. The crab that can turn back quickly with sting and foot spring has strong vitality and can be preserved. The crab that can't turn back has poor vitality and can't be stored for a long time.

Five, male and female. In the eighth and the ninth month of the lunar calendar, female crabs are selected, and male crabs are selected after the ninth month, because the gonads of male and female crabs are mature at these two times respectively, and the taste and nutrition are the best.

How to eat crabs

1. Whitening with crab salad

Grapefruit and orange in crab salad are rich in vitamin C and P, with whitening effect. First, marinate the crab meat with various seasonings for several minutes, then put the orange meat and grapefruit meat on the plate, drip some olive oil, the taste is more beautiful.

2. The most beautiful way to eat

The effect of beauty is the best when crabs are dipped. This is because crabs become cold and are scavengers. When they are dipped in ginger vinegar, they can get the effect of dispelling cold, sterilizing and beautifying.

3. Crab + yam + Jue red persimmon = beauty

Crab has the effect of nourishing yin and clearing away heat, while yam has the effect of nourishing the face. The tomato with whitening effect not only tastes delicious, but also has the effect of nourishing the face.

Benefits of eating crabs

1. Anti infection, promote wound healing

Crabs contain a large number of proteins and most of them are high-quality proteins. These high-quality proteins also contain amino acids, which can increase lymphocyte immunity, promote wound healing and anti infection. After operation or injured people can eat crabs in proper amount.

2. Detoxification effect

Arginine can participate in energy metabolism and detoxification in vivo. Eating crabs properly can promote energy balance of body and play a good role in excretion of toxins in vivo. So constipation patients can eat more crab meat.

Do not eat too much crabs, because crabs belong to cold food, excessive consumption will affect gastrointestinal health, induce diarrhea and other symptoms.

3. Cancer prevention

Crab meat contains a lot of nutrients, among which vitamin A and vitamin E are the highest. These two vitamins can protect mucous epithelium, soften blood vessels and anti-aging.

There is also a large amount of selenium in crabs. The content of selenium in every 100 grams of crabs is as high as 56.7 micrograms. Foods with high selenium content can improve the immunity of human body, and also play the role of cancer prevention and anti-cancer.