Hello everyone, I am YiKangde Nourishing Health Consultant - Swallow Teacher (this time I will lecture in the area: Anshun City, Anyang City, Macau, Bayannaoer City, Bazhong City), today to tell you about some knowledge about sea cucumbers!
Many people like to eat sea cucumbers, but everyone does not know much about the price of sea cucumbers, mainly because the price of sea cucumbers varies greatly. In the market, some sea cucumbers only have 800 yuan a pound, and some sea cucumbers cost thousands of yuan a pound, why is there such a big difference in price? How much does a catty of sea cucumber cost? The price of sea cucumber is affected by three factors, and the price of sea cucumber is not uniform. Now let's understand the factors that affect the price of sea cucumbers.
◆ The first type of sea cucumber is the main factor affecting the price, in general, the price of thorn ginseng is relatively high, and the nutritional value of different sea cucumbers is different.
According to the data, there are about 1300 kinds of sea cucumbers in the world, and about 140 kinds in China, but only 40 kinds of edible ones in the world. Half of the edible sea cucumbers in China are about 20 species. According to its surface characteristics, sea cucumbers can be roughly divided into two categories: thorn ginseng and bald ginseng. Thorn ginseng, as the name suggests, is named after its body full of conical fleshy spines. Bald ginseng, on the contrary, has no flesh thorns all over the body, so it is called bald ginseng.
1. Ginseng
Mainly including: ginseng, plum ginseng, flower sashimi and so on. Ginseng, 20 to 40 cm long, the body is conical, and there are 4-6 rows of conical fleshy spines on the back. The ventral surface is flattened and the tubes and feet are densely packed, and are used to adsorb reefs or crawl. The skin is sticky and smooth, muscular, and the body can be extended or curled. Body size, color and the number of fleshy spines vary depending on the environment in which they are grown. It prefers to live in slow and stable water flow, no fresh water injection, seaweed-rich fine sand bottom and rocky reef bottom, day and night. Summer sleep is carried out when the water temperature is high in the summer; there is a phenomenon of dirty discharge when the environment is unwell; the regeneration ability is very strong, and it can be regenerated after damage or cutting. Thorn ginseng is mostly distributed in the sea area at the junction of the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea in China, and in Liaoning, Shandong and other sea areas.
Plum ginseng, flower sashimi, generally 30 to 60 body length, of which plum ginseng is the largest. The body is cylindrical , with 3-11 rows of meat spines on the back , some of which are grained in rice , and are distributed in tropical seas. Due to the high water temperature, the color is lighter, the abdomen is whiter, and it grows too fast. The growth cycle and environment determine that these sea cucumbers do not have any tonic value, so they are far worse than Liao ginseng.
2. Bald ginseng
There are sea cucumber family, melon ginseng family, taro ginseng family. Among them, the sea cucumber family contains nine species of sea cucumber, which is the family with the largest number of sea cucumber species. There are white ginseng, topaz ginseng, stone ginseng, etc., in addition to black sea cucumber, jade foot sea cucumber, black milk ginseng, rough sea cucumber, are common edible sea cucumbers in the South China Sea, the quality is inferior. The melon family includes three kinds of square pillar five-pointed melon ginseng, naked five-pointed melon ginseng, and tumor pentagram melon ginseng, all of which are of poor edible quality due to the hard body wall. The taro ginseng family includes two kinds of sea cucumber and sea mallet, and the edible value is also very low.
These sea cucumbers are mostly produced in tropical seas, due to the high water temperature, perennial growth, strong fertility, light color, the growth cycle and environment determine that these sea cucumbers do not have any tonic value. Moreover, imported sea cucumbers are even for a long time to be stored, and formalin or formaldehyde is kept fresh, which is very harmful to the human body.
The second sea cucumber growing mode is different also affects the price of sea cucumber is different, due to the strong demand for domestic sea cucumbers, there is no real sense of wild sea cucumbers, so the current sea cucumbers on the sea cucumber market, according to the growth mode, are mainly divided into two categories, one is the bottom sown wild sea cucumber, one is captive sea cucumber; bottom sown wild sea cucumber, infinitely close to wild sea cucumber, long growth cycle, high nutritional value, so the price is more expensive, and captive sea cucumber is fed by feed, and captive sea cucumber has no hibernation period, the growth cycle is short, The price of sea cucumbers is relatively cheap, not half the price of the final sown sea cucumbers. The most effective way to distinguish between the two is to see if the sea cucumber is resistant to cooking, and after the wild sea cucumber is cooked for an hour, it is still very strong and soft, and the captive sea cucumber may have been rotten.
The processing method of the third sea cucumber also affects the price of sea cucumber is different, according to the processing method of sea cucumber, sea cucumber is mainly divided into light dried sea cucumber, sugar dried sea cucumber, salt dried sea cucumber, of which light dried sea cucumber is the most popular, the price is also the highest, and salt dried sea cucumber, sugar dried sea cucumber due to the use of salt or sugar weight gain, the cost is lower. The most effective way to distinguish them is to look at the rise rate of sea cucumbers, the rate of light dried sea cucumbers is basically more than 12 times, and dried salt and sugar dried sea cucumbers can be 5-6 times very good, so the price difference is more than double.
When consumers buy sea cucumbers, in addition to grasping the price of one penny, they need to decide according to the type, brand, quality, word of mouth and other factors of sea cucumbers, and beware of being deceived.
◆ Precautions for selecting sea cucumbers:
1, sea cucumber must be dried, dry sea cucumber is easy to deteriorate, and because it contains a lot of water, the price is actually much higher.
2, when buying dried sea cucumbers must be selected dry, now there are many unscrupulous traders in the process of sea cucumbers, in order to increase the weight of sea cucumbers added a large number of sugar, gum and even alum, so that the processed sea cucumbers although do not meet the product quality standards, but because the ginseng body is unusually full, the color is also black and bright and beautiful, which has a great deception to consumers.
3, when buying dried sea cucumbers, do not blindly pursue cheap prices, and combine the water incidence rate of dry sea cucumbers for comprehensive comparison. A good pound of dried sea cucumber can produce 10 pounds of water ginseng, while a pound of inferior dry ginseng does not exceed 5 pounds after water hair, and even broken and cannot be eaten at all.
4, sea cucumber is theoretically larger the better, long growth cycle and high nutritional value. If you have a long-term supplement, it is recommended to buy 80-100 heads of sea cucumbers. There is the ability to choose between 40-50 heads of sea cucumbers.
5, dried sea cucumber is still the mainstream sea cucumber products sold on the market, it is convenient to process, easy to eat, has been loved by consumers, and instant sea cucumber with simple and nutritious eating methods in recent years has also been recognized by the market. There is no distinction between the superior and inferior, but different people have different requirements, and the product is born in response to the needs of the market.
◆ In fact, as early as 2015, the National Health and Family Planning Commission has issued national standards related to dry sea cucumbers, namely: GB 31602-2015 "National Standard for Food Safety Dry Sea Cucumbers", which includes the quality of sea cucumbers in the scope of standardization. In 2017, the State Administration of Quality Supervision issued the "GB/T 34747-2017 Dry Sea Cucumber Grade Specifications", which once again clarified the classification of dry sea cucumbers.
◆ The above is a common sense explanation about judging sea cucumbers, (this time I will lecture in the area: Anshun City, Anyang City, Macau, Bayannaoer City, Bayannaoer City, Bazhong City), today's Swallow teacher talked about this, the next section we continue to share more nourishing food therapy health knowledge, please pay attention to Yi Kangde.