How much is sea cucumber per jin? A look at market prices

How much is sea cucumber per jin? These days sea cucumber has become a health tonic known in every household, so how much is sea cucumber per jin? The sea cucumber industry has also made great strides, and light-dried sea cucumber is the type sold most on the market. However, because the sea cucumber industry is still developing, the market is a mix of good and bad, and prices for various sea cucumbers differ enormously.

How much is sea cucumber per jin?

Sea cucumber is divided into wild and farmed; generally wild ones are more expensive than farmed ones, and prices also vary according to length and the distribution of the spines. Generally dried goods cost between 1200 and 1800 yuan per jin, and wild ones are usually 300 to 400 yuan more per jin.

As early as several hundred years ago, the people of our country treated sea cucumber as a precious seafood and listed it as one of the "Eight Treasures". The sea cucumber is an echinoderm that grows on rocks or among seaweeds on the ocean floor, also known as the sea cucumber. There are about 1100 species worldwide, and over 100 in our country. Among them, the edible varieties number more than 20, including plum blossom cucumber, spiky sea cucumber, black sea cucumber, smooth sea cucumber, melon sea cucumber and jade-foot sea cucumber.

At present the best domestic sea cucumber comes from wild sea cucumber of Zhangzi Island in Dalian at 39 degrees north latitude. This place is far from land, the seawater is pure and pollution-free, and the sea cucumber's growth period is long, so the wild sea cucumber produced has firm flesh, thick walls and the highest nutritional value, making it the best quality of all sea cucumbers. However, output is quite limited, and domestically only a few big brands such as Fulinmen sea cucumber can offer it. There are more than 20 edible species of sea cucumber produced in our country's waters, mainly from the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, that is, the coastal areas of Liaoning and Shandong, also called northern spiky sea cucumber. Its morphological features are a cylindrical body, 20-40 cm long. The front end has 20 tentacles around the mouth. The back has 4-6 rows of fleshy spines, and the belly has 3 rows of tube feet. Body color is yellowish brown, dark brown, greenish brown, pure white or grayish white. It likes to live on fine sandy seabeds and rocky reef bottoms with gentle, steady currents and abundant seaweed.

As everyone knows, in economics price is a very important factor; it not only represents in political economy the undifferentiated socially necessary labor time embodied in a commodity, but also represents in Western economics the actual value of the commodity. In fact, there is an even more apt explanation of a commodity's price, namely that it reflects consumers' willingness to buy.

Factors affecting sea cucumber prices

So what determines the price of sea cucumber? What factors affect sea cucumber prices? The main factors affecting sea cucumber prices are the quality of the sea cucumber, the sales channel and the purchase quantity.

Sea cucumber quality and specifications

Sea cucumber is generally counted by the number of heads, and the head count represents the size of the sea cucumber; the fewer the heads, the larger the sea cucumber

1. Quality: Sea cucumber is divided into light-dried sea cucumber, salt-dried sea cucumber, sugar-dried sea cucumber, freeze-dried sea cucumber and so on. At present, light-dried sea cucumber sells best on the market and also has the highest price. In some big-brand specialty stores, pure light-dried bottom-sowed wild sea cucumber usually costs over ten thousand yuan, and ordinary light-dried sea cucumber also costs more than 4000 yuan. Adding salt or sugar to sea cucumber to increase weight can effectively lower costs; in some sea cucumbers with high salt content, more than fifty percent of the weight is salt. Such sea cucumbers generally have a very low rehydration rate; although the price is affordable, the value for money is not high, and under normal circumstances most merchants would not process good bottom-sowed sea cucumber into salt-dried sea cucumber. Therefore, consumers should not judge sea cucumber by price alone but consider it comprehensively.

2. Sea cucumber specifications: Sea cucumber is generally counted by the number of heads, and the head count represents the size of the sea cucumber; the fewer the heads, the larger the sea cucumber and the higher its nutritional value, so the more expensive it is.

3. Growth years of sea cucumber: Wild spiky sea cucumber generally grows for more than 4 to 5 years before reaching the harvest standard; the longer the time, the more nutrients are deposited and the greater the tonic value, but the more expensive it is. Farmed sea cucumber, with suitable temperature and abundant feed, grows quickly and can generally be sold once it reaches the commercial size of 5-8 heads, but its health tonic effect is relatively poorer, so its price is lower.