Is fish maw seafood?

People don't know much about many of the foods they eat, nor do they know what category these foods belong to. For example, fish maw, which is often eaten by many women, is it seafood? Fish maw is the fish bladder in the belly of a fish, which is named fish maw after being dried in the sun. So to determine whether fish maw is seafood or not, one needs to know what kind of fish the fish maw is, and it cannot be judged simply.

1. What is fish maw?

Fish maw is fish maw, a dried product of various fish bladders. It is famous for being rich in gelatin and is also known as fish maw.

Fish maw is taken out from the belly of fish, cut and dried. It is rich in protein, gelatin, etc. It can nourish yin, strengthen the kidney and nourish essence, quickly eliminate fatigue and help surgical patients heal wounds.

Fish maw is made from the dried swim bladder of large fish (the organ that controls the fish's rising and falling). The top fish maws are ranked in order of the king of fish maws: golden croaker maw (yellow croaker), white fish maw (large white croaker), yellow sturgeon maw (sturgeon), yellow fish maw (large yellow croaker), sturgeon maw (large sturgeon), and gate eel maw (gate eel).

As for whether fish maw is seafood, it depends on which fish maw you choose!

2. How to classify the quality of fish maw

a. Fish maw of the same variety is differentiated by its dryness; the drier the better.

b. Differentiate by weight. The heavier the specification, the higher the price. As the saying goes, "Ten pounds of fish equals one ounce of glue." It can be seen that a fish maw weighing a few taels would have a fish body weighing dozens of kilograms, and most of them live in deep water and cannot be farmed. Because the oceans have been continuously polluted in recent years, the production of most fish has become increasingly smaller, and some fish species are even on the verge of extinction. It can be said that good and high-quality fish maw is becoming increasingly rare.

c. The better the quality of the fish maw, the smoother and more chewy it will be after stewing, without any fishy smell or sticky feeling (no gelatinous stickiness).

3. Nutritional value of fish maw

Fish maw is as famous as bird's nest and shark's fin, and is one of the "Eight Delicacies". Fish maw is known as "marine ginseng". Its main ingredients are advanced collagen, multiple vitamins, and various trace elements such as calcium, zinc, iron, and selenium.

The biological macromolecule collagen protein contained in fish maw is the raw material for the human body to supplement protein synthesis. And it is easy to absorb and utilize. It is stored in human tissues in the form of an aqueous solution, thereby improving the nutritional status of the tissues and accelerating metabolism. It has been proven that foods rich in collagen can affect the physiological functions of certain specific tissues through the bound water of collagen, thereby promoting growth and development, enhancing disease resistance, delaying aging and resisting cancer.