CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Tilapia has a high domestic production, so why is it not common in the market?

Tilapia - native to Africa, it is a tropical fish. The genus Tilapia includes more than 100 species, including subspecies. Tilapia has the characteristics of fast growth, high yield, omnivorous diet, few diseases, and strong reproductive capacity. At present, the breeding of tilapia is mainly concentrated in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan and other areas with higher temperatures, mainly in ponds. In addition to domestic sales, some companies use tilapia to make fish fillets and fish steaks for export abroad.

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As far as I know, the domestic production of tilapia is very high, but because it has an earthy smell, its growth environment is relatively dirty, and it contains a lot of heavy metals, it is not common in the market.

Tilapia is native to Lake Tanganyika in Africa. It is shaped like a crucian carp, so it is also called African crucian carp. It has a very strong survival ability and can survive in both seawater and freshwater.

As a successful invasive species, why wouldn't it like to eat food?

Tilapia may carry bacteria. Tilapia was introduced in the 1980s. It grows quickly and has strong reproductive capacity, and has quickly expanded to major waters in China.

Moreover, the more drainage outlets a city has, the more this fish there is. Tilapia has the ability to grow in polluted environments, and people sometimes use tilapia to treat sewage. For example, some factories need to discharge biomass sewage regularly. The nine bends and eighteen drainage ditches are designed to connect rivers, lakes and seas. Tilapia and mussels are stocked in the drainage ditches. After the sewage passes through these nine bends and eighteen drainage ditches, the water quality is significantly improved and meets the discharge standards.

Tilapia grown in polluted environments is relatively dirty and absorbs a lot of heavy metals, so it is not recommended to eat it.

When people eat tilapia, there will be an inevitable earthy smell, which greatly affects their evaluation of tilapia. In fact, all aquatic products have a certain degree of muddy smell, which depends on their growth environment.

However, some pond-raised tilapia have a strong smell of mud, and the tilapia sold on the market is usually raised in ponds. In addition, tilapia is not handled cleanly when it is cooked, and it tastes very earthy.

In fact, tilapia is very nutritious. Why do some people not like to eat tilapia?

There is nothing wrong with ordinary people eating tilapia, but tilapia is harmful to the body and is not suitable for babies and pregnant women!

1. Hemorrhagic patients or tuberculosis patients should not eat tilapia while taking medication.

2. Patients with liver cirrhosis should not eat tilapia

3. People with allergies cannot eat tilapia.

4. Gout patients should not eat tilapia

5. Young children should not eat tilapia.

6. Pregnant women should not eat tilapia.

The final analysis concluded that it was caused by dirt or physical factors!

Tilapia can be eaten in many ways. It can be made into soup, steamed or grilled. If it is wild, tilapia from unpolluted waters tastes very good. It tastes better than many expensive fish. In addition, it is very economical. But many people don't like to eat tilapia because of its living environment. Because they don't know where the fish on the market come from. Tilapia has strong adaptability and can survive in most waters. It can also exist in stinky ditches.

Over time, people have been eating less and less fish. Because there are many different types of fish on the market, low-quality fish like tilapia have been abandoned by people. Just like Egyptian mites, fewer and fewer people eat them now.

Tilapia can be said to be rampant in two vast areas of China. Generally speaking, the way to deal with this fish is to eat it. For example, crayfish is solved by domestic food in this way.

But this time, the favorite Cantonese people don't want to eat tilapia. Many people think that tilapia is not very beautiful. Some people also think that tilapia tastes not very good. Therefore, the sales performance of tilapia in China is normal.

It is said that tilapia is not very popular in China, but it is very popular in neighboring countries such as Japan, Europe and the United States. In particular, canned tilapia is sold here. Therefore, China's export business of tilapia can be said to be booming.

There are many kinds of creatures in the world. Due to climate and other reasons, each place has its own unique creatures. With the improvement of technology, we have learned to introduce foreign species. However, there are certain risks in introducing foreign species. First, if the species cannot adapt to the local environment, it cannot be successfully introduced. Second, if it adapts to the local environment, the successful introduction can bring economic benefits to the local area. Third, if the adaptability is too strong, it will bring harm to the local environment.

China has a very successful breeding species introduced, that is tilapia. On the one hand, it can create extremely attractive economic value for our country every year. For many years, China has been the world's largest tilapia producer and exporter; on the other hand, because tilapia has a strong ability to adapt, the proliferation of tilapia seriously harms the local ecological environment.

As early as 1957, tilapia was introduced from Vietnam to Guangdong, my country, so some people called tilapia "Vietnamese fish" in the early days. After that, my country introduced several varieties of tilapia several times, and obtained a large number of high-quality breeding products through hybrid breeding. In fact, tilapia is not the first species that my country has tried to introduce, but because of many new varieties in the early days, the introduction was not successful. However, tilapia has strong vitality and has successfully become one of the most successful varieties introduced in my country.

Tilapias have a very diverse diet and can eat plants, algae, and some invertebrate small animals in the water. Therefore, tilapias grow very quickly and can enter the next generation of reproduction in about six months. In fact, compared with other fish, tilapias do not lay a large number of eggs each time, but tilapias have a magical skill - mouth-hatching eggs. It is precisely because of this skill that the eggs are effectively prevented from being destroyed, greatly improving the hatching rate of the eggs.

Tilapia has many advantages. In addition to being easy to breed, fast-growing and high-yielding, the quality of tilapia meat is also highly praised, such as its delicious texture and tender taste. It is also a typical high-protein, low-fat food. Therefore, tilapia is also known as "white meat salmon" and "chicken in the water".

The reason why tilapia can open up the US market is mainly because tilapia has no intramuscular spines. For Chinese people, who have been eating fish since ancient times, the technique of picking out bones has reached perfection. But Americans don't like such a cumbersome way of eating, and rarely eat river fish. Tilapia has more meat and fewer bones, and it just meets the appetite of Americans to remove the head and tail and process it into fish fillets. Therefore, it took less than ten years for tilapia to become the fourth largest seafood in the United States.

Compared with the love of tilapia by Americans, the Chinese do not like tilapia as much as Americans do. That is why my country's farmed tilapia is extremely dependent on exports and there is a serious problem of insufficient domestic sales. Even though tilapia has all the advantages of fish, its sales and reputation are average, and the price of tilapia is much lower than other fish.

The reason why many people don’t like to eat tilapia is because of the fishy smell of tilapia. Nowadays, farmed tilapia can eliminate the fishy smell. However, it is difficult for ordinary people to change their impression of fishy tilapia once they have eaten it.

It’s just that it’s not common in northern markets because it is not adapted to the northern environment. It can be often seen in southern markets, where it is also called Fukang fish.

Because tilapia has a very strong reproductive capacity, artificially farmed tilapia has an earthy smell. Although it is cheap, the taste is not recognized by people. After the high-speed reproduction of tilapia, it will also have a negative impact on China's local production and growth. There is no other way but to export it. Please ask foreign foodies to help us solve the problem.