Contents:
- Medical Video: If You Eat 4 Cashews Every Day, Amazing things will happen to your body
- Nutrient content in shellfish
- Benefits of shellfish for health
- 1. Overcoming anemia
- 2. Maintain heart health
- 3. Form and treat muscles
- 4. Maintain nervous system function
- Tips to safely consume shellfish
Medical Video: If You Eat 4 Cashews Every Day, Amazing things will happen to your body
You may have often eaten seafood such as shrimp and squid. But what about shells? Make no mistake, this one seafood has many benefits for health. In addition, the distinctive and savory taste can make many people addicted. Let's look closely at the following nutrients and benefits of shellfish.
Nutrient content in shellfish
There are several types of shellfish that are widely available in Indonesia. Some of them are shellfish and green mussels. Both are equally nutritious as long as you choose fresh shellfish. Here are the nutrients you can get from about 85 grams of shellfish.
- Protein: 11 grams or 22 percent of the daily nutritional adequacy rate
- Fat: 1 gram or 1 percent of AKG
- Omega-3 fatty acids: 168 milligrams
- Large substancei: 12 milligrams or 66 percent of AKG
- Vitamin A: 10 micrograms or 9 percent of AKG
- Vitamin B12: 42 micrograms or 700 percent of AKG
- Vitamin C: 11.1 milligrams or 18 percent of AKG
- Calcium: 78.2 milligrams or 7 percent of AKG
- Potassium: 533.8 milligrams or 15 percent of AKG
- Manganese: 0.4 milligrams or 21 percent of AKG
- Selenium: 20.7 micrograms or 30 percent of AKG
- Carbohydrate: 2 grams or 1 percent of AKG
- Calories: 63 kcal
Benefits of shellfish for health
Shellfish turned out to have a variety of benefits that are a pity if missed. Interested in trying to eat clams? Here are the properties.
1. Overcoming anemia
Shellfish are rich in iron. Iron itself is needed to form hemoglobin, which is a special protein that is responsible for carrying oxygen in your blood throughout the body. Without hemoglobin in the blood, your body's organs will not function properly because of lack of oxygen.
Well, eating shellfish can help increase hemoglobin in the blood. That way, you who have an iron deficiency anemia can get enough iron intake to form hemoglobin.
2. Maintain heart health
You can get a high intake of omega-3 fatty acids in one serving of fresh mussels. Omega-3 fatty acids themselves can reduce triglyceride levels that are too high. High triglyceride levels are at risk of causing various heart problems such as hardening of the arteries and heart attacks.
However, do not overeat shells. Because the shells contain cholesterol. Cholesterol levels that are too high also risk your heart health.
3. Form and treat muscles
Protein is a nutrient that plays an important role in forming muscle mass while treating it from tissue or cell damage. For those of you who often experience muscle pain, protein can also speed up the process of restoring stiff and painful muscles.
Like other seafood, shellfish are also rich in protein. Shellfish is even a healthier protein source from beef or chicken because of its lower fat and calorie content.
4. Maintain nervous system function
In order to carry out their duties properly, the nervous system in your body requires a vitamin B complex. One of them is vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 deficiency risks causing nerve damage to decrease brain function.
Therefore, the benefits of shellfish that contain high amounts of vitamin B12 are a pity to miss. Eating shellfish can help maintain the functioning of your nervous system, especially in parts of the brain.
Tips to safely consume shellfish
Some people have allergies to shellfish. If allergy symptoms appear such as itching, rashes, hives, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, difficulty breathing, or swelling, stop eating and immediately take allergy medication.
Shellfish are also not recommended for raw consumption because the risk is very large for health. We recommend that you cook the clams by boiling them for about five minutes or steaming for four to nine minutes.
Do not eat shells whose shells cannot be opened. This means the shells are dead before cooking. Dead mussels rot very quickly and don't taste good anymore.
