What is the difference between green shrimp and red shrimp? Which one is more delicious?

Fresh shrimps are tender and delicious, rich in nutrition. Nutritionists believe that they have a certain brain-boosting function. Green shrimps taste fresher than red shrimps and have no earthy smell. Should we choose green shrimps or red shrimps when we eat them? What are the similarities and differences between the two? You should know more by reading the following sharing.

Contents of this article

1. The difference between green shrimp and red shrimp

2. Which one tastes better, green shrimp or red shrimp?

3. The difference between peony shrimp and red shrimp

The difference between green shrimp and red shrimp

The breeding methods of red shrimp and green shrimp are different

Sea shrimps are red in color, with red heads and tails, and hard shells, and are commonly known as red shrimps.

Farmed shrimps have blue bodies and soft shells and are commonly known as green shrimps.

The difference between red shrimp and green shrimp

Red shrimps are called red shrimps because of their red skin. The difference between red shrimps and green shrimps is that red shrimps taste a bit earthy and are not very fresh.

Green shrimps have tender and delicious meat and are rich in nutrients. Every 100 grams of edible part contains 16.40 grams of protein. Nutritionists believe that it has a certain brain-boosting function. Green shrimps taste fresher than red shrimps and have no earthy smell.

The difference between red shrimp and green shrimp is that they are different in size

Green shrimps are larger than red shrimps, and their prices are also very different.

Green shrimps have tender meat and soft shells and are very popular in the Shanghai market, but they are not easy to transport over long distances and have a higher mortality rate than red shrimps.

The meat of red shrimp is elastic and easy to transport over long distances, and the mortality rate is generally no more than 7%.

Which is better, green shrimp or red shrimp?

Red shrimps are called red shrimps because their skin is red when they are fresh, but they taste a bit earthy and delicious.

Green shrimps are called green shrimps because their skin is bluish-white. They are fresher than red shrimps. They have no earthy smell. They are much larger than red shrimps.

The difference between peony shrimp and red shrimp

The popularity of peony shrimp in domestic restaurants has also led many restaurants to use similar shrimp to impersonate peony shrimp. Among them, Argentine red shrimp is mainly used to impersonate, because they are similar in size and look similar, but the price of Argentine red shrimp is basically only about half of that of peony shrimp. How to distinguish them? The easiest way is to see if there are white spots on the shrimp. The body color of peony shrimp is reddish brown, with white stripes on both sides of the shrimp head, white round spots on the body, and long and curved shrimp spears. Argentine red shrimp is red all over, without stripes or spots, and has a short shrimp spear.