Arctic sweet shrimps are all cooked and sold. Do you know why?

Arctic sweet shrimp is a kind of shrimp that lives in the Arctic waters, also known as giant prawn. It lives in the cold sea with a water depth of 100 meters. It is not easy to catch it. Now the Northern Lights are mainly produced in Iceland. In Canada and Finland, their shrimp boats are specially made, with tens of thousands of tons, and each voyage takes one or two months. Therefore, if the shrimp is caught back, if it is frozen, the meat is likely to be dehydrated for a long time (a big boat is needed for a long distance).

Because the ship is big, it needs to be filled with oil before returning, which means that the shrimp needs to be frozen for a long time. Therefore, in order to lock in the moisture, Arctic fish are precooked, denatured, frozen, boxed, returned to the dock and then shipped ashore. In other words, the arctic fish we eat must be imported and cooked at sea. Convenient processing and logistics. It takes a long way to transport Arctic sweet shrimp to China, so the logistics cost is also high. If the water and ice in the frozen shrimp are also important, it will increase the logistics cost invisibly.

In addition, the processing is inconvenient. Better ensure the taste of Arctic sweet shrimp. Arctic sweet shrimp is caught wild from the sea and tastes fresh and sweet, which is also the main reason for its popularity. If you freeze fresh from such a far place, you must go through the process of thawing and freezing again. The biggest fear of seafood is thawing and freezing, which will lose a lot of flavor. Cooked and frozen can avoid this situation. In fact, Arctic sweet shrimp is not the only shrimp that does this. There is also a kind of shrimp that lives in the Antarctic, the famous Antarctic krill.

Krill is not cooked to retain water, but because there is a very cool thing in their shell called autolytic enzyme. When the shrimp dies, the protein in the meat will react with the enzyme directly, and protein will soon go bad! This is why krill is cooked. Therefore, krill will be peeled off, precooked and frozen when caught on board. Therefore, the boat that catches Antarctic krill is equivalent to a floating aquatic product processing factory. There are very few boats that can catch krill in the Antarctic now, and there are only a few in China, each of which is a great struggle.