About Shrimps
Shrimp is a seafood you can prepare in lot of ways. Farmed, wild, frozen or fresh, shrimps bring numerous amounts of nutrients and flavour. Shrimps vary in color due to the species, size, diet, location and harvest season. Raw shrimps can vary to white, pink, black and dark grey. After they are cooked they will turn red or dark pink.
When harvested shrimps can turn black and that is natural reaction that happen when shrimps are out of water. Most shrimps come frozen since they are put in the freezer immediately they are caught, most of the shrimps at the seafood shops counter were some point frozen then defrosted before placing then on the counter. You might as well get true fresh shrimps if you live on the coast and you can buy direct from the fishermen.
Shrimps range in size the much larger are jumbo, giant, king but this varies in each stored some label and refer to the number of shrimps in a packet of kilogram example 25/30 would mean anywhere between 25 to 30 pcs.
How to devein shrimp
The dark line that goes through the back of shrimps is called vein, but is actually the digestive system. You can eat the shrimp with vein but it has unpleasant texture and not appetizing
The easiest way to devein a shrimp is to cut the back of the shrimps open and take out the vein.
The different between Farmed and Wild shrimps
Wild shrimps are from ocean, river and lake while farmed shrimps come from tanks. They are the same when cooked but the nutritional value comes from what the eat for instance wild shrimps eat a natural diet and are less in saturated fat compared to farmed shrimps that are high in omega 3fatty acids because they feds.
Nutritional value
In addition, shrimp is low in calories and high in protein, vitamins and mineral such as choline, copper and iodine raw.
BEWARE
Some unscrupulous fishermen or traders may use a preservative sodium tripolyphosphate (STPP) to increase the weight of the product and to make the shrimps appear firmer, smoother and fresher. Although this chemical is regarded as safe, when ingesting in large amount can be toxic.
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