Today’s dinner I made the recipe like this: green pepper fried potato chips, stuffed octopus, tofu stewed sea cucumber (also carrots, wakame, etc.), the main food is rice (mainly rice, mixed with black rice and millet) And glutinous rice). There was a debate on the table: can sea cucumbers be eaten like this? Stewed with tofu and other vegetables?

　　About sea cucumbers, long story, everyone, we have to get around.

　　Sea cucumber has become a well-known supplement. Its output has increased sharply year by year, its prices have skyrocketed year by year, and its consumption has increased year by year. Dalian Huanghe Road Sea Cucumber Street has begun to take shape. It is said that many sea cucumber brands have stepped out of Dalian to compete in different places. Every winter, Dalian’s reports, topics, sayings, and programs about sea cucumbers flock together with advertisements for sea cucumber products. At least in Dalian, eating sea cucumber has become a popular health practice.

　　Every time at this time, I will receive many calls to consult sea cucumbers. However, I regret to find that although there are many sea cucumber products, sea cucumber advertisements are overwhelming, and sales are in the billions, there is no shortage of wealthy sea cucumber companies in the market, and more and more consumers have a soft spot for sea cucumbers, but However, due to the lack of serious experimental research on sea cucumbers, it is even difficult to retrieve decent academic papers on sea cucumbers in the vast professional research database. There are only a few little common senses that are unknown. For example, the protein content of sea cucumber is extremely high, but mainly collagen. Compared with other proteins, the nutritional value of collagen is low. There are sea cucumber polysaccharides (also called mucopolysaccharides or sulfated polysaccharides) in sea cucumbers, which have certain effects on improving immunity and anti-fatigue, but how is the specific structure of this polysaccharide? How is it digested and absorbed? In what form does it enter the human metabolic process? The problem is still in the dark. So the question about "how useful is sea cucumber" is really difficult to answer-unless we plunge into the ancestor''s diet therapy monograph to find the answer, or simply quote folk sayings, and say "everyone says so" and "generally think" Wait for the letter to be true. Is the popular argument really reliable? The most interesting thing is that several people who have been eating sea cucumbers for many years have also asked me how useful sea cucumbers are. Don''t you know if you have eaten it? Ha ha. All in all, the sea market of sea cucumber products is in sharp contrast to the indifference of research.

　　The next question is how to eat sea cucumber best. Many consumers eat sea cucumbers by taking medicine. Get up in the morning, fasting, swallow with warm water, wait for a while before eating breakfast. Not to mention those who take sea cucumber capsules. The price of sea cucumbers is severely expensive, and the role of sea cucumbers is infinitely amazing. People certainly have reasons to eat sea cucumbers on thin ice or to keep improving. Eat in the morning or at night? Eat on an empty stomach or after a meal? Eat alone or mixed with other foods (or supplements)? How much warm water is better? How much is best to eat in a day... Almost all the details are Was discussed, learned. However, where is the credible experimental evidence? Who has really studied it? There is no such thing at all, so we can only rely on reasoning (in fact, blind guessing) to speak for ourselves, justify ourselves, and some even contradict ourselves. Therefore, I would rather say generously that you can eat sea cucumbers. If you want to eat them, you can eat them, boil water, porridge, soup, braised, stir-fried vegetables, stewed cabbage, stewed tofu...----finally It''s back-why is sea cucumber stewed with tofu? Sea cucumber is a high-end ingredient. Return to ordinary food, and it is not wrong to be with tofu. As far as the whole world is concerned, nutrition experts who recommend tofu (soybeans) far exceed those who recommend sea cucumbers. Moreover, there is always a lack of credible evidence about the benefits of tofu (soybean). A solid and reliable, a magical ethereal, together, it is really difficult to say who is insulted.

　　To sum up my conclusion: sea cucumber, you can eat with money, don’t force it if you don’t have money; tofu, you have to eat it if you have money or money. Sea cucumber tofu, eat it if you want to eat it.