Tips on how to buy prawns

 Never buy dead prawns

　　When buying prawns, it is important to know how fresh they are, the fresher they are, the more delicious they are, otherwise, they will lose their flavor and the meat will be "moldy". Fresh shrimp, the shell and muscle between the sticky, hand-peeled shrimp meat, you need to use some force to peel off the shell, fresh shrimp intestinal tissue and shrimp meat also stick tight, but frozen shrimp intestine and meat stick less tight, if the shrimp intestine and shrimp meat appear to lose phenomenon, the shrimp is not fresh. Also, when buying live shrimps, if they produce air bubbles from time to time, this is a sign of freshness. Shrimps with hard shells, bright green color, protruding eyes, firm flesh, and a fishy taste are excellent. If the shell is soft, the color is grey, the eyes are sunken and the shell is separated from the meat, it is inferior. Where the color is yellow and dark, the head and feet fall off, the meat is loose for the inferior.

The best way to buy prawns is to use them as a food source.

　　Most shrimps with blackened gills are diseased

　　Recently, a newspaper reported that some informal markets sell a few dollars a catty of shrimp, the original is sold for tens of dollars, why did the price drop so much? Experts pointed out that the original is among these shrimp, some of them were measured as a result of fish drug residues, such as chloramphenicol, and can not be sold, those aquaculture merchants had to sell at a reduced price, and aquatic markets due to the lack of management and detection means, these contaminated shrimp so that they can be sold in the market in large quantities, and the buyer thought the good price, in fact, has become a victim (chloramphenicol on the human hematopoietic system, the digestive system has a serious toxic reaction, which may cause human The toxicity of chloramphenicol on the human hematopoietic system, digestive system, may cause aplastic anemia; also cause optic neuritis, skin rash, and other adverse reactions).

　　Therefore, consumers must pay careful attention when buying shrimp, generally fed sick shrimp, shrimp skin will have little black and white spots, while the gills of shrimp blackened.