Look at this point to know immediately whether the shrimp has been pumped with chemicals or not, stay alert lest buy ‘poisonous shrimp’.

Shrimp is a nutritious, healthy food. Do you know how to choose to buy delicious fresh shrimp? Phunutoday.vn will share with you a few tips for choosing to buy fresh shrimp.
I’m fat, unusually stretched

Use your hands to feel the shrimp, the first thing that can help housewives recognize it best is the softness of the shrimp. The impurities pumped shrimp body is usually fat, abnormally stretch, especially the joint between the head and body, so fat that the bones on the body are almost stretched.

The impurities pumped shrimp often have hard gills. Meanwhile, the ordinary shrimp without impurities has a soft and curved body.

Shrimp impurities pumped out their tail, protruding their head, and prickly spines

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Only with the naked eye you can immediately recognize the chemically pumped shrimp with the superficial features. The impurities pumped shrimp often spread their tail, protruding head, and prickly spines, while the clean shrimp is often the opposite of the above characteristics.

When processing shrimp, there is often a lot of water flowing

Shrimp pumping impurities when cooking will melt a lot of water, shrimp meat shrinks. When the meat is eaten, the taste is paler than normal shrimp. If the shrimp is jelly pumped into you, when cooked, you peel off the shell of the shrimp, you will easily see the jelly layer between the meat and shrimp shell, especially at the top and bottom of the gills.

Before the situation of shrimp being pumped with impurities, or the residue of antibiotics is forbidden to exceed the threshold …, consumers need to be vigilant and very alert when choosing this type of seafood.

The secret to buying iron shrimp

Although iron shrimp is smaller in size compared to other shrimp, it has a delicious taste and a sweet and rich taste when processed.

• When choosing to buy iron shrimp, you should also choose to buy fresh, raw shrimp, the body is white pink and the shrimp legs are still attached to the body.

• If you see iron shrimp with a dark pink color, this shrimp has been preserved for a long time, rotting and the quality has been greatly reduced.

The secret to buying fresh shrimp (sea shrimp)

• Shrimp has a thin shell, soft and smaller head than tiger shrimp, but is rich in nutrients and has a natural sweet taste.

• When choosing to buy black shrimp, you should buy live shrimp, jumping, the body of shrimp is pink and white, with blue eyes.

• Do not choose to buy dead crayfish, the shells are dark pink.