CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Are farmed shrimp considered seafood?

1. Are artificially farmed shrimps seafood?

Not necessarily. Not all shrimps are considered seafood. Only shrimps that live in seawater or are artificially farmed in seawater are considered seafood, such as Arctic shrimps, prawns, lobsters, etc. These are only a part of all shrimps.

In addition, most shrimps live in fresh water, mostly in rivers, lakes and streams. These shrimps are not seafood, but river fish, such as crayfish and river shrimps.

2. Are artificially farmed shrimps considered seafood?

We all know that wild things have higher nutritional value and taste better, and the same is true for seafood. Because the cost of catching wild prawns is relatively high, the cost of artificially farmed prawns is relatively lower, so the prices of the two are also different. As environmental pollution becomes more and more serious, there are fewer and fewer wild prawns. The prices of wild prawns on the seaside are particularly high. Some vendors will even sell inferior products as good ones, selling artificially farmed prawns as wild prawns.

1. The difference is in their taste. Wild shrimps have firmer meat because they are more active, and the meat is very tender. The key is that they don’t have any earthy smell. However, artificially farmed shrimps have limited activity, and they usually eat feed, so their meat is very soft and the taste is not chewy. The key is that they still have an earthy smell. However, sometimes, artificially farmed shrimps are cleaner than wild shrimps because environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious.

2. Look at their shrimp threads. Artificially farmed shrimps usually grow up eating food, so their shrimp threads will be very large. Also, look at their shrimp heads. For farmed shrimps, if they get sick, they will be fed some medicine, and toxins will accumulate in their heads, so they look black. However, the inside of the shrimp heads of wild shrimps basically look red.

3. Just look at their shells. Farmed shrimps grow faster and have a shorter growth cycle, so their shells are softer when you pinch them. Wild shrimps grow slower and have harder shells. You can easily tell them apart from these three points. Have you learned it?

3. The difference between artificially cultivated marine shrimp and freshwater marine shrimp

The iodine content of shrimps should be divided into river shrimps and sea shrimps. Generally, the iodine content of freshwater shrimps is very low, because the iodine in freshwater shrimps mainly comes from water, and the iodine content of freshwater shrimps is generally very low, so freshwater shrimps will not contain much. But sea shrimps are different. First, the iodine content in seawater is higher, and secondly, most organisms in the sea also have a high iodine content. Sea shrimps also have a high iodine content due to the environment they live in.

4. The difference between farmed shrimp and wild shrimp

A: There is no difference. After the shrimps are released artificially, they eat natural food that is no different from wild shrimps. In essence, they are the same and there is no difference.

Shrimp belongs to the phylum Arthropoda, subphylum Branchiophylum, class Crustacea, subclass Macula, order Decapoda, suborder Natura, family Penaeidae, genus Penaeus. Chinese shrimp is one of the main species of the genus Penaeus, commonly known as "shrimp".

The body of the shrimp is long and slightly flattened. The sexes are different. The female shrimp is larger than the male shrimp and has different body colors. The female Chinese shrimp is gray-green in color, while the male shrimp is yellow. The shrimp is covered with a layer of chitinous exoskeleton carapace, which is secreted by the epidermal cells below it.