Can you eat more silkworm pupae?

Many people like to eat silkworm pupae frequently, not only because they taste good, but they are also very nutritious. Although silkworm pupae are a relatively good food, the amount of any food should be adjusted. The same goes for silkworm pupae, because people cannot predict what problems will occur if they eat too much of a food. People often wonder, can we eat too many silkworm pupae?

Silkworm pupa is formed after silkworms spin silk and make cocoons. It has good nutritional and medicinal value and is a good thing of "medicine and food of the same origin". Silkworm pupa is flat in nature and sweet in taste. It enters the spleen, stomach, liver and kidney meridians. It has the effects of dispelling wind and dampness, strengthening spleen and eliminating accumulation, promoting body fluid and quenching thirst, eliminating irritability and heat, calming the nerves, warming yang and tonifying kidney. It is often used for diabetes, rheumatic bone pain, convulsion epilepsy, impotence and spermatorrhea, premature graying of hair and beard, etc.

Silkworm pupae are rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which can reduce the cholesterol and triglyceride content in the blood, reduce blood viscosity, thereby improving the microcirculation system, increasing the blood and oxygen supply capacity of various tissues and organs in the body, and enhancing the vitality of the body; the substances contained in silkworm pupae can effectively increase the content of white blood cells in the blood, enhance the function of the human immune system, and thus strengthen the body's disease resistance; in addition, long-term consumption of silkworm pupae can slow down the aging process of tissue cells, so that people can achieve the purpose of prolonging life;

Silkworm pupae contain some ingredients with anti-cancer effects, such as α-interferon, which has long been used in the clinical treatment of cancer; eating silkworm pupae regularly can also warm and nourish the kidney yang, treat impotence, premature ejaculation, soreness of the waist and knees, and oligospermia and asthenospermia;

Silkworm pupae contain a large amount of protein, and its amino acid types are as many as 18 kinds, including all the amino acids necessary for the human body. It is a high-quality insect protein. It is also rich in vitamins and mineral elements. Long-term consumption has a good effect on malnutrition caused by overwork, weakness after illness, poor physical condition, etc.