How to “cabinet” to choose to buy fresh and attractive seafood

Seafood is an extremely rich, delicious and nutritious food source. However, recently impregnating urea and chemicals into seafood has made many people afraid and choosing fresh seafood is not easy. The article would like to send you some  tips  to choose to buy fresh and safe seafood.

1. How to choose to buy oysters, snails…

Fresh mussels, the shell closes tightly, if it is open, it closes quickly if you touch it, the water in the intestines is much and clear, the smell is a bit fishy. If the shell is spoiled, the shell opens or closes, touching it when it is open, the shell closes slowly and is about to die, the water in the intestine is less and cloudy, and the smell is rotten.

When fresh snails are fresh, the snail’s body stays tightly in the shell or crawls out of the shell and moves quickly, when touching it, it quickly goes into the shell, the snail’s scales are near the outside of the shell, when touching it, the reflex closes. When snails are rotten, the body lies in the shell into a soft mass, the scales are deeply indented into the shell.

2. How to choose shrimp

Delicious shrimp body must be firm, the shell is still hard, white in color, not opaque or turning red or yellow. The head is firmly attached to the body, the legs and legs are still intact, there is no fishy, rancid smell.

Lobster: Those with clear, shiny shells are fresh and delicious.

Shrimps: Shrimps also jump and crack, have pinkish white color, blue eyes.

Black tiger shrimp: There is a smooth glossy shell, waves between the fresh and clear shrimp body.

Should not buy shrimp that have turned dark pink, the head and claws leave the body, with a rancid smell, the shrimp has been kept for a long time, is not good to eat and very dangerous, easy to be poisoned.

3. How to choose to buy crabs

Sea crabs are classified into 3 types including: brick crabs, meat crabs, and water crabs. In particular, the way to buy brick crabs and meat crabs is to press the crab bibs with your hand, if the bibs are hard, the crabs have a lot of meat.

It is also possible to observe the crab claws with the naked eye, if the more succulent, the crab is spongy, not delicious. Delicious sea crabs looking outside will see a dull gray shell, large bibs.

Should choose a very fresh baby, look at the bib still clinging firmly to the body and legs and the stronger and more flexible the movement, the spikes on the claws and crab shells are still sharp.

4. How to choose to buy crabs

There are many types of crabs such as red crabs, three-pointed crabs, green crabs… but the most delicious, meaty and nutritious crabs are still green crabs.

Do not choose too large children, moderate children will have more meat and better taste.

Choose the ones that are really firm, with an adult’s hand, pressing the bib does not sink.

If you like to eat crab meat, choose a male, press your hand close to the bib (under the breast, near the paddle foot), if it is not concave, it is a firm crab.

If you like to eat crabs with bricks, choose children. These are slightly yellow in color, their legs are very tight, not soft or slightly concave.

Should choose crabs with red bibs, slightly yellow bricks, the legs of crabs when squeezed firmly, not soft, fresh crab legs will contract but not stretch.

5. How to choose ink

To choose fresh squid, you should choose the one that is big, thick, white, and the meat is not crushed.

Cuttlefish: should choose the one that is big, thick, milky white, firm flesh, not crushed, the brown membrane is all around the outside, the squid beard is hard.

Squid: Choose one with a light pink flesh, the head is still attached to the body, the squid beard is hard, the ink bag has not been broken.

Less fresh squid is the ink that has turned slightly ivory, the meat is pasty, the head is not attached to the body, the smell is very fishy.