What Should You Not Eat Swimming Crab With? A Full Guide to How Much to Eat at Once and How to Choose Them
The swimming crab is one of the more common sea crabs, also known as the sea crab or spear crab. It comes onto the market starting in August, and because it is inexpensive and rich in nutritional value, it is deeply loved by people. So what should you not eat swimming crab with? How much is appropriate to eat at once? How do you choose them?
1. What should you not eat swimming crab with?
Swimming crab is cold in nature, and there are quite a few foods it clashes with, so when eating it you must never eat it together with the following foods:
1. Swimming crab should not be eaten with soft-shelled turtle or rice-field eel: eating the two together will cause poisoning, and pregnant women in particular had best not eat them, so as not to affect the health of the fetus.
2. Swimming crab should not be eaten with jujubes: swimming crab is a cold-natured food and jujubes are a hot-natured food; eating the two together will cause cold-heat disease.
3. Swimming crab should not be eaten with tea: eating the two together will cause abdominal pain and diarrhea, and even one hour after eating crab you should not drink tea.
4. Swimming crab should not be eaten with persimmons: eating the two together will cause the protein in the crab to coagulate, triggering abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting and similar symptoms.
5. Swimming crab should not be eaten with grapes: eating the two together will cause indigestion symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea and vomiting. In addition, it should not be eaten with pomegranates or hawthorn either.
6. Swimming crab should not be eaten with pears: eating the two together will cause gastrointestinal discomfort and other indigestion symptoms.
7. Swimming crab should not be eaten with mandarins: eating the two together will cause general weakness. However, if eaten by mistake, garlic juice can be used as a remedy.
8. Swimming crab should not be eaten with sweet potato: eating the two together will produce indigestible sediment and cause stones.
9. Swimming crab should not be eaten with celery: eating the two together will affect the absorption of protein.
10. Swimming crab should not be eaten with eggplant: eating the two together will cause poisoning.
11. Swimming crab should not be eaten with muskmelon: eating the two together will cause poisoning. However, if eaten by mistake, mandarin peel can be used to neutralize the poison.
12. Swimming crab should not be eaten with pumpkin: eating the two together will cause poisoning. However, if eaten by mistake, earth slurry water can be used as a treatment.
13. Swimming crab should not be eaten with tomatoes: eating the two together will cause diarrhea. However, if eaten by mistake, lotus rhizome nodes can be used to stop the diarrhea.
2. How much swimming crab is appropriate to eat at once?
Generally, for a healthy person eating swimming crabs weighing two and a half liang each, the maximum is 5 per day; for three liang each, a maximum of 4 per day; for four liang each, a maximum of 3 per day. However, according to doctors' advice, it is generally best to eat just one at a time, and eating it 2 to 3 times a week is enough.
3. How do you choose swimming crab?
1. Look at the crab's back: you can buy a swimming crab when its back and belly are relatively plump and heavy and its surface is blue-green; the plumper it is, the more crab roe it has.
2. Look at the crab's legs: you can buy a swimming crab when its small legs are relatively stiff and very hard to pinch; generally, the harder the legs, the more crab meat there is.
3. Look at the abdominal flap: you can buy a swimming crab when its abdominal flap is firm and hard and its surface is light red; generally, the redder the color, the better it is.
4. Look at the crab shell: you can buy a swimming crab when there is yellow-red material at the tips of the crab shell and there is more of it; generally, the more color there is, the more crab roe there is.
5. Look at the belly: a high-quality swimming crab's belly is slightly yellow, and especially if the joints are purple, it is relatively fat.
4. How long after a swimming crab dies can it no longer be eaten?
Generally, a dead swimming crab cannot be eaten. This is because the swimming crab has a wide diet and usually feeds mainly on carrion, which contains large amounts of bacteria, parasites or pathogens; once it dies, it easily breeds pathogens and bacteria, and eating it can easily cause poisoning.
However, if a swimming crab that has just died is kept fresh on ice, it can still be eaten, but it must first be marinated with a little salt, as only that will reduce the bacteria.