Can I eat a blue crab that has been dead for a day?

Blue crab is an ingredient that we use quite frequently in our diet. If a blue crab has been dead for a day, it is not recommended to eat it because the bacteria multiply very quickly after the blue crab dies. If it is eaten, it can easily cause diarrhea. Not to mention if it has been dead for a day, it is not recommended to eat it if it has been dead for more than two hours.

Can you eat freshly dead blue crabs?

Don’t eat blue crabs if they have been dead for more than 2 hours! (In summer, it is also recommended not to eat them if they have been dead for more than 1 hour). Bacteria multiply very quickly after the death of crustaceans, which can easily cause diarrhea, especially in this season.

If you find that the meat is similar to tofu dregs when you eat it, it means it is not fresh and you should not eat it. Be sure to check before eating. Even if it is a freshly dead crab, if you find that the meat has problems, you must not eat it.

How to preserve live blue crabs so they won't die easily

1. Tie the rope and put it in the refrigerator.

2. Keep the crabs in water. If the crabs are too thin or you want to keep them for a while, you can feed them some sesame seeds or broken eggs and add some rice wine to fatten them up.

3. Keep it moist. It is not a problem to live for one or two weeks. Just don't soak it in water. The breeding place is usually placed in a cement pool, sprayed with water every day, sometimes for one or two months.

4. Quick freezing: Remember to freeze the crabs quickly to preserve their freshness. At the same time, it is best not to store them for too long and eat them as soon as possible.

Some people can't eat crabs

People with high blood lipids and coronary heart disease. Crabs are high in cholesterol. The cholesterol intake of the human body should not exceed 300 mg per day, while 100 grams of crab roe contains up to 460 mg of cholesterol. Eating more than two crabs will exceed the limit.

Patients with digestive system diseases such as gallstones, pancreatitis, active hepatitis, etc. Crabs are high in protein, which promotes the secretion of pancreatic juice and can easily induce digestive tract diseases.

For gout patients, crabs are high-purine foods, which will aggravate the condition of gout patients; people with allergic constitutions, such as those with a history of food allergies, protein allergies, and asthma, should not eat lake crabs;

For those suffering from cold and fever, Chinese medicine believes that eating too much crab can cause wind and cold, aggravating the cold.

For infants and young children, crab roe and crab paste are the reproductive system and reproductive cells of crabs, which contain a large amount of sex hormones. Eating too much may cause precocious puberty in children.