How to choose sixty clams_How to choose sixty clams

In fact, many people now like to eat clams very much, mainly because clams themselves have very high nutritional value. After ingestion, they will make people's bodies stronger and can prevent the occurrence of many diseases. Moreover, this is a kind of seafood, so naturally it contains a lot of minerals, proteins and other nutrients that the human body needs to consume every day to prevent malnutrition.

How to choose flower clams

Huajia is a Chinese word for clam. Because the Cantonese words "huaha" and "huajia" have the same pronunciation, "huaha" is written as "huajia". The flower clam is called mango snail in Hainan. It is a mollusk, about 3 cm long, with an oval shell, light brown and purple edges. Lives on the shallow seabed. The shell is long and slender and is oblong.

The shell surface is yellow-brown or light purple, covered with irregular purple Bowen-shaped patterns, and is often covered with a layer of shiny shell, with fine and dense concentric growth lines. The inside of the shell is white or slightly purple, and the mantle sinus is curved into it. [1]

There are many varieties of clams, including flower clams, Manila clams, and Squid clams. The meat is so delicious that it is known as "the most delicious in the world" and "the king of all flavors". There is also a saying among the people in Jiangsu that "after eating clam meat, all other flavors become inedible". The nutritional characteristics of clams are high protein, high trace elements, high iron, high calcium and low fat. Many shellfish also have the above characteristics. It is the meat of the tetrapod or other types of clams of the family Clamidae. Produced along the coast of my country.

About 4/5 of the height. The left and right shells are equal. The shell tip is slightly bent forward and located slightly toward the front end of the middle of the dorsal edge of the shell. The middle part of the shell surface is swollen, and it shrinks sharply towards the front, back and near the ventral edge, causing the front and back edges to form more or less ribs, and the small moon surface and shield surface to be heart-shaped. The growth lines on the shell surface are obviously coarse, forming uneven concentric rings. The shell has a shell skin, which is white or lavender on the top, yellowish brown near the ventral side, and often has a very narrow black ring on the ventral edge.

The inside of the shell is grayish white. Wide hinge. The left shell has one forked main tooth; the right shell has two main teeth arranged in an eight-shaped pattern; the lateral teeth are well developed and are all lamellar. The external ligament is small and light yellow, while the internal ligament is extremely developed and yellowish brown. The mantle mark is clear and close to the ventral edge. The mantle sinus is not very deep and has a blunt end. The anterior adductor muscle scar is slightly smaller and oval, while the posterior adductor muscle scar is slightly larger and nearly quadrilateral. The edge of the mantle is double-layered, with small branched tentacles on the inner edge. The water tube is yellow-white and has tentacles at the end. The feet are well developed, laterally flattened and axe-shaped. It lives in shallow marine muddy beaches and is distributed along the coast of my country[1].