When is the season for snakehead fishing?

May is the best time to catch snakehead. This kind of fish is fierce and lives in benthos. It belongs to carnivorous fish and likes to live in shallow water with lush aquatic plants.

Snakehead is a kind of fish with high economic value because of its delicious taste and rich nutrition. It can remove blood stasis, promote tissue regeneration, nourish and recuperate, promote granulation and enrich blood, promote wound healing, and has high medicinal value. Eating snakehead has a long history in China, and it was listed as the top grade of insect fish by Shennong Materia Medica as early as 2000 years ago. ?

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nutritive value

protein

Snakehead is rich in nutrition and protein. Its muscle contains crude protein 17.63% (higher than the four freshwater fish in China), and its amino acid content accounts for 77.07% of the total, of which 7 kinds of essential amino acids account for 29.73%, and 4 kinds of umami amino acids (aspartic acid, glutamic acid, alanine and glycine) are.

The crude protein content of snakehead muscle is 17.63% (male) and 18.89% (female), and it contains 18 kinds of amino acids, among which 8 essential amino acids are high in taste. Using amino acid evaluation model, it was found that the essential amino acids of male and female snakehead were relatively complete, and both male and female snakehead were relatively complete.

The content of protein in snakehead muscle (16.94%) is higher than that in mandarin fish, grass carp, silver carp, bighead carp, soft-shelled turtle, hairtail, prawn and fish eggs.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-snakehead