The health benefit and nutritional value of inkfish.
Introduction of inkfish
Cuttlefish is what we often call cuttlefish. Although it doesn't look so beautiful, it can't hide its nutritional value. Why is the cuttlefish of high nutritional value? Let's talk about the growth environment of cuttlefish first.
In the vast East China Sea, there is a creature that roams like fish but does not belong to fish. People are used to calling it "cuttlefish", also called "sea rabbit.", It is one of the famous marine products. It is collectively known as "four economic fishes" with large yellow croaker, small yellow croaker, and hairtail, and is deeply loved by consumers.
The cuttlefish not only has a fresh, crisp and refreshing taste, high protein content, high nutritional value but also has medicinal value. Dried cuttlefish and cooked mung bean soup can improve eyesight and clear fire. "Squid Board" is named "cuttlefish bone" and is also a common Chinese medicine, called "Hai Piao Shao(cuttlebone)".
The cuttlefish is full of treasures and is good food for diet therapy, especially for women. The cuttlefish is delicious in taste and rich in nutrition. Every 100g of meat contains 13 g of protein and only 0.7 g of fat. It also contains carbohydrate, vitamin A, vitamin B, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and other essential substances for the human body. Herbalists of past dynasties believed that cuttlefish has sweet, salty and mild natures, and has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and Yin, invigorating Qi.
It is worth mentioning that cuttlefish is ideal health food for women. Eating cuttlefish is beneficial to women in all stages of their life, including menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation. According to records, women eating cuttlefish has the effects of nourishing the blood, improving eyesight, dredging channels, preventing miscarriage, promoting labor, stopping bleeding, promoting lactation, metrorrhagia, etc. The ancient book of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Sui Xi Ju Yin Shi Pu, said that it "benefits women the most by healing stranguria, facilitating childbirth, regulating menstruation, and treating hernia and abdominal mass."
Squid can be said to be full of treasures, not only fresh, crisp and refreshing in taste, with high nutritional value, but also rich in medicinal value. Squid contains 13 grams of protein and only 0.7 grams of fat per 100 grams. It also contains carbohydrates, vitamins A and B, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other essential substances for the human body. It is a high protein and low-fat nourishing food. It is worth mentioning that it is ideal health food for women to maintain shape and skin. Squid shell contains calcium carbonate, shell cutin, mucilage, and a small amount of sodium chloride, calcium phosphate, magnesium salt, etc. The ink of cuttlefish contains a mucopolysaccharide, and experiments prove that the cuttlefish ink has a certain anti-cancer effect on mice.
The health benefit and nutritional value of inkfish.
✵Nutritional Value of Cuttlefish:
1. Cuttlefish is rich in protein, and its shell contains calcium carbonate, cutin, mucilage, and a small amount of sodium chloride, calcium phosphate, magnesium salt, etc.
2. A kind of ink in cuttlefish contains mucopolysaccharide. Experiments in mice have proved that it has a certain effect of inhibiting cancer.
3. According to the data of the Ocean Shipping Branch of China Fishery Association, cuttlefish has the advantages of high protein, low fat and low calorie. Cuttlefish is ideal health food for women. The cuttlefish contains 13g of protein and only 0.7g of fat per 100g. It also contains carbohydrates, vitamins A and B, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and other essential substances for the human body, belonging to a high protein and low-fat nourishing food.
4. Cuttlefish has a delicious taste and rich nutrition. Every 100g contains 13g of protein and only 0.7g of fat. It also contains carbohydrate, vitamin a, vitamin b, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin and other essential substances for the human body. Medical experts of all dynasties believe that cuttlefish has sweet, salty and mild natures, and has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, nourishing blood and yin, invigorating Qi. It is worth mentioning that cuttlefish is ideal health food for women. Eating cuttlefish is beneficial to women in all stages of their life, including menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation.
5. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that nature and taste of ink fish are salty and smooth, and have the effects of nourishing the blood, nourishing Yin, benefiting the stomach, ventilating, removing blood stasis and relieving pain. The ancient works Ben Cao Gang Mu(Compendium of Materia Medica) recorded: "benefit Qi and strong wills." Da Ming Ben Cao(Daming Materia Medica) recorded: "Benefiting People and Promoting Menstruation."
✵Nutritional analysis of dried cuttlefish:
Cuttlefish is a delicious seafood with rich nutrition. Every 100g of cuttlefish contains 13g of protein, 0.7g of fat, 1.4g of carbohydrate, 64 kcal of calories, 14 mg of calcium, 0.6 mg of iron, 0.01 mg of thiamine, 0.06 mg of riboflavin and 1 mg of niacin. The polypeptide contained therein has antiviral and radioprotective effects.
1. Cuttlefish is rich in protein, and its shell contains calcium carbonate, cutin, mucilage, and a small amount of sodium chloride, calcium phosphate, magnesium salt, etc.
2. The ink in cuttlefish contains a mucopolysaccharide, which is proved by experiments to have a certain anti-cancer effect on mice.
✵Nutritional Value of Squid Ink:
Sepia Ink Contains Anticancer Components to Inhibit Tumor Proliferation: Since Hirosaki University discovered the anticancer activity from squid ink in 1997, many studies have also begun to follow up, looking at the mysterious ingredients and effects of squid ink. A report published in the Asian-Australian Journal of Animal Science (AJAS) and studied by China's Guangdong Ocean University pointed out that squid ink is mostly squid melanin, protein, fat, etc. It also contains polysaccharides, which can enhance the function of anti-cancer substance "superoxide dismutase" (SOD).
The research team diluted the ink and dissolved it into the diet of the experimental chickens at different doses. After testing the blood samples of the experimental chickens, it was found that the more squid ink was in the diet, the stronger the antioxidant capacity was in the body. On behalf of adding squid ink to the diet, besides enhancing immunity, it also has an anti-cancer effect.
Sepia ink contains mucopolysaccharide to alleviate climacteric symptoms of women: Ancient Chinese medical literature has long recorded that cuttlefish ink can astringe to stop bleeding, supplement essence and stopband, relieve acid and pain, remove dampness and heal a sore. Clinically, cuttlefish ink is mainly used as hemostatic to treat hemorrhagic diseases, such as functional uterine bleeding and gastric hemorrhage. Nutritionally, this is because squid juice is rich in mucopolysaccharide, which is an important component of human bones, blood vessels, skin, etc. It also has the effect of relieving menopause symptoms of climacteric women and achieving the anti-aging effect.
Sepia Ink Has Bovine Sulfanilamic Acid to Reduce Cholesterol and Protect Cardiovascular system: Taurine can improve metabolism and help lose weight. Some studies also show that taurine is of long-term help to prevent cardiovascular diseases in women. Bovine sulfanilamide acid can combine with cholic acid, a decomposition product of cholesterol, and excrete it to take it away from the body so that cholesterol does not accumulate in the body. Besides, the internal organs of cuttlefish are rich in unsaturated fatty acids DHA and EPA, which are helpful to remove fat and cholesterol from the blood and maintain vascular elasticity, and also have preventive effects on cardiovascular diseases.
✵Medicinal Value of Cuttlefish:
1. Fresh cuttlefish contains 5 - hydroxytryptamine and another substance, which may be a polypeptide (the brain, kidney and heart are rich in content.). Sepia poisoning may be intestinal dyskinesia caused by this substance.
2. Squid is rich in fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, vitamin A, B1, B2 nicotinic acid and other nutrients, but it contains a large amount of cholesterol, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, coronary heart disease patients should not eat more.
3. Squid meat also contains polypeptide, which has antiviral and anti-radiation effects.
4. Sepiella maindroni can extract an antiviral substance.
✵Health advice:
Seafood contains many important vitamins, minerals, and unsaturated fatty acids, and the nutritional value of the whole squid is higher than that of eating squid ink alone. Besides, it is suggested that if you want to take fish oil to achieve the better health benefits, seafood is not suitable for high-temperature frying and cooking, and it is better to boil and blanch, which can preserve the nutritional value.
Tips of taking cuttlefish and choose cuttlefish.
✵Tips needing attention in eating cuttlefish:
Correlation group: the general population can eat it.
2. People with deficiency cold of spleen and stomach should eat less. Patients with cardiovascular diseases and liver diseases such as hyperlipaemia, hypercholesterolemia, arteriosclerosis, etc. should eat carefully. People suffering from eczema, urticaria, gout, kidney disease, diabetes, allergy, and other diseases are forbidden to eat. Squid fish is a kind of moving hair, so people who are sick should not eat it. Gout, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, diabetes, and skin allergy are forbidden to eat.
✵How to choose cuttlefish:
Cuttlefish is not only an aquatic product rich in nutrients, which can bring many positive effects to our bodies but also a food with very good taste. But for many people, how to choose the better quality cuttlefish is a problem that makes people feel perplexed. So how should we choose cuttlefish?
First, look at the body surface: those with white back or slightly purple bone epithelium are cuttlefish of high quality. All dark purple or slightly red ones on the back are cuttlefish of poor quality.
Second, look at the muscle: after peeling, the muscle is white, which is a cuttlefish of high quality. After peeling, the cuttlefish with reddish muscles is of poor quality.
Third, smells: the quality of cuttlefish is good with its inherent faint fishy smell or seawater smell. It is the bad quality cuttlefish that smells strongly.
Apart from fresh cuttlefish, dried cuttlefish is also a favorite method of eating cuttlefish. How should dried cuttlefish be selected? The dried cuttlefish with better quality should have the characteristics of complete body shape, bright and clean, persimmon red or brown-red color, translucent shape, flat and generous meat quality, dry and tough, and fresh flavor.
1. When buying fresh cuttlefish, the method to judge whether it is fresh is to press the film on the fish body, which is firm and elastic; you can also pull on the head of a fish. The head of a fresh fish is tightly connected with the body and is not easy to break.
2. Select dried cuttlefish:
First, it is necessary to judge its softness and hardness. Dried fish of good quality is soft, not stiff, complete and firm in shape, and fleshy. It feels very dry and hard to touch with the hand, and it is usually kept for a long time without any taste.
Second, look at the color and luster, the high-quality dried fish is slightly reddish without mildew spots. The tender squid is yellowish, transparent and thin, while the old squid is purplish-red in color and large in size.
Many people will ask, what is the matter with the dried white cuttlefish on the market? Can we eat it? This kind of dried white cuttlefish is due to the color change caused by the anti-corrosion or softness measures taken by the manufacturer in the production process. Although this dried cuttlefish is not inedible, it must be carefully purchased due to its manufacturing characteristics.