How much is whitebait per jin, and what are its nutritional value and benefits?
Whitebait is a fish extremely rich in calcium, high in protein and low in fat, with basically no large fish bones, suitable for children to eat. So how much is whitebait per jin? What are the nutritional value and benefits of whitebait?
1. How much is whitebait per jin?
This year the price of whitebait has remained at around 40-50 yuan per jin. Whitebait is abundant in resources, high in nutritional value and delicious in taste, and can be used for food processing, fishmeal processing and frozen product processing. Its frozen products sell well at home and abroad as fish farming bait, becoming one of the important export-earning varieties in recent years.
The above agricultural product price information comes from Tuliu.com——the Fruit and Vegetable Market Channel, and the data is for reference only.
2. Analysis of the nutritional value of whitebait
The moisture, ash, crude protein and crude fat contents in whitebait are 76.05%, 1.51%, 18.26% and 3.87% respectively. A total of 18 amino acids were detected in the protein of Chaohu Taihu Neosalanx taihuensis, accounting for 18.79% of the mass fraction of fresh samples; essential amino acids and umami amino acids accounted for 43.21% and 42.97% of the total amino acids respectively; the ratio of essential amino acids to non-essential amino acids was 93.66%; the essential amino acid index calculated according to the WHO/FAO pattern was 58.33, and its amino acid composition ratio conforms to the FAO/WHO standard. The amino acid scores of Chaohu Taihu Neosalanx taihuensis are all greater than O.72, and the chemical scores are all greater than 0.48. Chaohu Taihu Neosalanx taihuensis contains abundant mineral elements such as calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and zinc. From this it can be seen that Chaohu Taihu Neosalanx taihuensis is rich in protein, has a reasonable and balanced amino acid composition, a relatively high content of essential amino acids for the human body, and abundant mineral elements, and can better meet the human body's demand for mineral elements. It is a whole food with relatively high nutritional value and of healthy and high quality.