How to choose grass carp? Does grass carp have many bones?

Grass carp tastes good and is also very nutritious. Some people are concerned about whether grass carp has many bones. In fact, grass carp does not have many bones, but compared with marine fish, it still has slightly more bones. So how should we choose grass carp in our daily life? Let's see if it is the same as your selection method.

Contents of this article

1. How to choose grass carp

2. Does grass carp have many bones?

3. Is grass carp an allergenic food?

How to choose grass carp

1. Observe the shape of the fish: Fish that are heavily polluted have abnormal shapes. Some have big heads and small tails, bent or even deformed spines, and some have yellow skin and blue tails.

2. Look at the fish eyes: those that are full and protruding with a transparent and clear cornea are fresh fish; those that do not protrude, have wrinkled corneas or have blood clots in the eyes are not fresh.

3. Smell the fish gills: The gill filaments of fresh fish are bright red, the mucus is transparent, and it has the salty smell of marine fish or the earthy smell of freshwater fish. The gills of stale fish are darker in color and appear gray-red or gray-purple, and the mucus is fishy.

4. Touch the fish body: The surface of fresh fish has transparent mucus, and the scales are shiny and tightly attached to the fish body and not easy to fall off; the mucus on the surface of stale fish is mostly opaque, and the scales have poor gloss and are easy to fall off.

5. Pinching the fish meat: Fresh fish meat is firm and elastic, the depression disappears immediately after pressing, and it has no peculiar smell; stale fish meat is slightly loose, the depression disappears slowly after pressing, and it has a slightly fishy smell.

6. Look at the belly of the fish: the belly of a fresh fish is not swollen, and the anus is white and sunken; the anus of an stale fish is slightly protruding.

Does grass carp have many bones?

Strictly speaking, grass carp doesn't have many bones, but if you don't know how to eat fish, you'd better be more careful when eating it. Because compared with marine fish, grass carp, a freshwater fish, has slightly more bones. But grass carp tastes good, and its nutritional value is also very rich, so you can eat it carefully. In fact, when eating fish, just be careful and cautious. Don't be distracted when eating fish, then you won't get stuck by fish bones even if the fish has many bones.

Is grass carp a hair-raising food?

It is an allergy-inducing food. First of all, all fish are allergy-inducing foods.

Fascinating foods refer to foods that are rich in nutrition or have irritating properties and are particularly likely to induce certain diseases (especially old illnesses) or aggravate existing diseases.

Taboos on irritating foods are of great significance in both dietary health and dietary therapy. Under normal circumstances, irritating foods are also foods. Eating them in moderation will not cause side effects or discomfort to most people. They will only induce illness in people with certain special physical conditions and certain diseases related to them.

Grass carp, Cyprinidae. Elongated, sub-cylindrical body, up to 1m long. Greenish-yellow body. Broad and flat head, terminal mouth, no whiskers. Pharyngeal teeth are comb-shaped. Inhabits the middle and lower layers of water, feeds on aquatic plants. Matures at 3-4 years old, lays eggs in the upper reaches of rivers, can be artificially bred. Fast growing, maximum individual weighs about 30kg. It is the main freshwater fish cultured in China. Distributed in major water systems in China, meat is delicious, and fish gall is poisonous.