Crab Stick, also known as Crab Foot Stick, Crab Flavored Fish Cake, and Simulated Crab Meat, is a food processed by minced fish to simulate the texture and flavor of the crab leg meat of Alaskan snow crab.
1. Benefits: ① crab stick meat is firm and tough, salty and slightly sweet, delicious flavor. ② crab stick has a certain role in supplemental nutrition to a brand of crab stick, for example, per 100g crab stick contains 88.9kcal calories, 10g protein, 11.1g carbohydrates, 522.2mg sodium, 366mg calcium.
2. The bad: ① many of the crab sticks sold on the market are added a lot of starch, and the content of fish is very little, and even unscrupulous traders completely with starch plus flavors and colors to make crab sticks, is very difficult to distinguish. ② crab stick sodium content is high, high blood pressure patients should not be consumed in large quantities, easy to elevate blood pressure.
Therefore, although the crab stick is delicious, but it belongs to the processed food, nutritional value is limited, it is recommended that daily life can not be consumed in large quantities for a long time.