Source: Rizhao Shanhaitian Tourist Resort
From spring to summer, from cold to hot.
Following in june's footsteps, we officially entered the summer season
What first thoughts come to your mind about summer?
The editor will associate it with another word -
Take a bath!
When cool and slightly salty seawater takes away the sweltering body temperature
We swirled around with the waves, feeling the comfort and invigorating of the blue.
In addition to bathing in the sea, there is also a fascinating activity. That is, catch the sea to collect shellfish. It's a collision of endurance and heartbeat, a wonderful blend of luck and fun.
In this process, the most encountered seafood is clams, so the problem is:
How many species of clams do you know? Can you accurately call them by name? How do you tell them apart?
The following Xiaobian will take you to explore the secrets of the clam world, follow my footsteps, and approach this seemingly ordinary creature together!
West Tongue
Xi Shi tongue is because its flesh is like a human tongue, white and tender, and the taste is delicious, so it is named "Xi Shi".
There is also a legend that Tang Xuanzong once ate the soup made of this shellfish, looking at it like milk, eating like sweet liquor, praising its delicious taste, and immediately gave it the name "Xi Shi Tongue".
Xishi tongue is mostly in Rizhao and Jiaonan, and the resources of Shandong Province are about 20 tons, and the annual harvest is about 5 to 10 tons, which is a rare product.
Nutrition facts: Protein, vitamin A, iodine
Benefits: Promote appetite, detoxification, detoxification, yin and deficiency
Flower clams
Flower clams are flower shells, because the Cantonese flower clams are homophonous with flower shells, flower clams are written as flower shells. The flower clam is a mollusk called mango snail in Hainan, which is about 3 cm long, with an oval shell, light brown, and purple edges. It lives on the shallow seabed. The shells are slender and oblong.
Flower clam is a relatively high nutritional value of food, containing high-quality protein, a variety of amino acids and a variety of minerals, such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, etc., unsaturated fatty acid content is relatively high, easy to be digested and absorbed by the human body. It can be eaten by the general population, especially suitable for people with high blood pressure and high blood lipids.
clam
Wen clams, alias Hua Ge, Wen clams originate in Japan, and are also distributed along the Korean Peninsula, Chinese mainland and Taiwan. There are cultured clams on the sandy shores off the southwest coast of Taiwan. The shell is rounded and slightly triangular, with a porcelain white interior. It has the effect of clearing the lungs and dissolving phlegm, soft and firm loose knots, reducing swelling, making acid and relieving pain, and collecting sores and collecting moisture.
"New Cultivation of Materia Medica": "(Sea clams) This thing is as fine as a huge victory, moisturizing and pure, and as thick as half an almond, it is not used for medicinal purposes." "(Clams) The large one is three inches round, and the small one is five or six points round. If the woman of the present day is a swallow fat, it is not a sea clam or the like. ”
Yellow clams
Yellow clam shell is yellow, its flesh is also yellow, axe-shaped shells, dark yellow markings, its clam meat contains protein, a variety of vitamins and calcium, phosphorus, iron, selenium and other nutrients needed by the human body, but also contains trace amounts of cobalt, to maintain the human hematopoietic function and restore liver function has a good effect, nutritional value is quite high.
In the Qing Dynasty, Guo Lin once praised its deliciousness as "Junwei Jiangxiang Kanshu" in "Guizhixiang Huang clam". Donggang people love yellow clams more than ever.
When eating yellow clams at home, it is best to soak them in clean water a day in advance, and you can use the self-cleaning of yellow clams to spit out the sediment in the body to avoid "teeth" when eating.
Hair clams
The scientific name of the clam is a genus of hairy cockles in the family Crayenidae. It is mainly distributed along the coasts of Japan, Korea and China in the western Pacific Ocean, and is more offshore in the Bohai Sea and the East China Sea, and often inhabits the sand bottom of the shallow sea. The adult shell is 4-5 cm long, the shell surface is expanded in an oval shape, the two shells are unequal, the shell top is protruding and inwardly rolled and biased in front; the shell surface has 30-44 radial ribs, and small square nodules appear on the ribs; the hinged part is straight, with about 50 teeth; the shell surface is white, covered with a brown fluffy epidermis. Hairy clams are cool, have the effect of laxative under fire, and can treat constipation caused by fire. It can be consumed by the general population. It is especially suitable for high cholesterol, high blood lipid constitution, tuberculosis cough hemoptysis, yin deficiency night sweats and weak physique, malnutrition.
Sea sand
Sea sand, scientific name orchid. It is as small as sand during the seedling period, so it is called sea sand by local fishermen. With the growth of time, the sea sand grows, the shell color becomes darker, growing to the size of the melon seeds, and the size of the body will not change much. The protein content of sea sand is only lower than that of Ezo scallops, and its crude fat content is in the middle, the content of carbohydrates is the lowest, and the content of inorganic elements is the highest. The amino acid composition of sea sand is very comprehensive, the total amount of essential amino acids is higher than that of oysters, the alanine content ranks first among shellfish, and the sum of EPA and DHA content is significantly higher than that of other shellfish. Sea sand is also rich in inorganic elements, the content of Fe and Mn is higher than that of other shellfish, and the content of other inorganic elements is also higher
Tips~
Clam meat and shellfish mollusks contain a diet 7-cholesterol and 24-methylene cholesterol that have the effect of lowering serum cholesterol, which have the unique effect of inhibiting cholesterol synthesis in the liver and accelerating the excretion of cholesterol, thereby reducing cholesterol in the body. They are more potent than the commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug sitosterol.
After eating clams and shellfish foods, people often have a refreshing and pleasant feeling, which is undoubtedly beneficial for relieving some of the symptoms of annoyance.
Chinese medicine believes that clam meat has the effect of nourishing the yin and the eyes, soft and firm, and dissolving phlegm, and some shellfish also have the effect of moisturizing the dirt.
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