What kind of food is dried mussel, and is it the same as oyster?
In the market, you will often see a dried product called dried mussel, but it has nothing to do with vegetables. The appearance of dried mussel is quite similar to that of oyster, so what kind of food is dried mussel, and is it oyster?
1. What kind of food is dried mussel, and is it oyster?
Dried mussel is a kind of seafood, not oyster. Its scientific name is mussel, also called green mussel, sea mussel, etc. The dried product made by cooking and processing mussels is called dried mussel.
2. Basic introduction to dried mussel
The scientific name of dried mussel is mussel. It is a bivalve mollusk of the family Mytilidae and the genus Mytilus. Mussels live on coastal rocks, and they also grow under fishermen's boats.
Dried mussel is an animal with very fast reproduction and growth rates. It is very abundant in coastal areas, so its price is also very cheap, and it is a seafood often eaten by many fishermen.
The main distribution areas of dried mussel are coastal provinces such as Shandong, Liaoning, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and Hainan. Dried mussel can be eaten after being cooked or steamed, or shelled and stir-fried with other ingredients, and the taste is very delicious either way.
The nutritional value of dried mussel is also very high. The protein it contains includes 8 essential amino acids needed by the human body, such as valine and leucine.
3. Basic introduction to oyster
Oyster is a mollusk of the family Ostreidae and the genus Ostrea. It is the largest cultured shellfish in the world. Oyster is also one of the aquatic animals with the strongest stress resistance. It can adapt to high and low temperatures and can survive for 1-2 weeks under conditions of being out of water and exposed to air.
Oysters are distributed all over the world. In China, they are mainly distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Shandong, Guangxi, Liaoning, Zhejiang and other regions.
As a high-quality cultured seafood shellfish, oyster meat contains a variety of amino acids, glycogen, a large amount of active trace elements and small molecule compounds, and its shell contains a large amount of calcium carbonate.