The most popular eater of cod is North Korea, which is also known in Korean as "Myungta" (명태어). Regarding the origin of the "Mingtai fish", it is recorded in the "Notes under the Forest" written by the wenchen Li Yuyuan in the late Joseon Dynasty: According to legend, in the past, in the County of Myeongcheon, Hamgyong Province, North Korea, a fisherman with the surname of Tai caught a fish and offered it to the Hamgyong-do Observation Envoy to taste.
After the observer had eaten it, he shouted delicious food and asked the crowd, "What is the name of this fish?" "But no one knew, only that it was caught by a fisherman with the surname Tai. Therefore, they took the surname of "Ming" of Mingchuan County and the surname of the fisherman, and collectively called it Ming Taiyu.
Yellow-lined cod
Theragra chalcogramma , is a fish of the cod family in the family Codidae. In the early years, the yellow-lined cod belonged to the narrow cod genus, but in recent years it has been found that they are very close to the Atlantic cod, so it is classified as a cod genus, so they are "red in the root" cod.
Yellow-lined cod is a cold-water fish in the North Pacific ocean and is widely distributed. North Korea, Japan, Alaska, the West Bering Sea and other places are their main production areas. They have slender bodies with a bluish-grey or olive-green back, a white belly, brass-colored patches on the sides of the body, and adults up to 90 cm long.
Cod is rich in resources, with annual catches of up to 7 million tonnes in the 1980s, and even now, the annual catch is stable at 3 million tonnes, the largest annual catch of cod.
The most familiar unfamiliar fish
Narrow cod is nutritious and cheap, often appearing on the ice tables of supermarkets and seafood markets, and the price per kilogram is only about 10 yuan. Both in appearance and price, they are particularly understated.
In addition to being sold in the form of the original article, in fact, they have been with you and me for a long time in other forms.
This is a crab foot stick, born in Japan in the 1970s, the appearance and taste are crab leg meat that imitates "snow crab" or "tall crab", and its main raw material is yellow line cod. Crab foot sticks are made from cod and processed to get crab foot sticks – foods that bring us fond memories in barbecues and shabu-shabu.
In fact, not only crab foot sticks, but also the raw materials of surimi products such as bamboo wheel rolls and fish cakes are mostly narrow cod, and it is such a fish that has become a sweet and warm existence in people's cold winter days.
The wheat cod we often eat is made of narrow cod, because the raw material is produced in Alaska, so it is called Alaskan narrow cod fort. In the past, the seafood that people could eat in inland cities was lackluster, and mai xiang fish and fried cod steak were the few seafood delicacies that were once delicious.
Delicious cod
Cod not only has a high yield, but also has excellent nutritional value, each 100g of cod meat contains 17.2 grams of protein, the total fat content is only 0.8 grams, of which monounsaturated fatty acids are 0.1 grams, polyunsaturated fatty acids are 0.4 grams, even if the price of salmon, the protein content is only 20 grams, rarely which high-quality protein is so economical.
In the place of origin, cod is also a favorite food of many animals such as mediocre flounder, seals, sea lions, etc., and coastal residents have also given them a variety of delicious methods.
Alaskan cod tofu soup is very good and nutritious, and is loved by people, and the meat of the narrow cod is rich in fat and milky white, and it is delicious.
Buy ready-made cod fillet, season it and put it in the oven to enjoy the delicious, narrow cod meat is firm, no small thorns, it is safe and convenient to eat.
The Confusion of Deep Sea Fish
Many narrow cod products have the word "deep sea" written on their packaging, are they deep-sea fish? The conventional definition of "deep-sea fish" is "fish that live below the ocean's light transmission layer", that is, water depths of about 200 meters or less. Cod are distributed at depths of 30-400 m, so they are veritable deep-sea fish.
Living in the cold deep sea, the skin of the narrow cod is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, so in addition to being used as food, they are also used to refine deep-sea fish oil and make it into health products for sale.
This is our familiar and unfamiliar narrow cod, nutritious, delicious taste, it has long been with its unique taste, approachable price, silently accompanied you and me for a long time, rarely any kind of nutritious fish has such an affordable price, narrow cod is really a generous gift from nature to mankind.