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Portunus pelagicus, also known as the blue crab, blue swimmer crab, blue manna crab and flower crab is a species of large crab found in the Indo-Pacific, including off the coasts Indonesia, [1] Malaysia, [2] Cambodia, [3] Thailand, [4] the Philippines, [5] and Vietnam; [6] and in the intertidal estuaries around most of Australia and east to New Caledonia.
Crab meat from crab claws on toast Brown crab. Crab meat or crab marrow is the meat found within a crab, or more specifically in the leg of a crab. It is used in many cuisines around the world for its soft, delicate and sweet flavor. Crab meat is low in fat and provides approximately 340 kilojoules (82 kcal) of food energy per 85
Blue crab escaping from the net along the Core Banks of North Carolina.. Callinectes sapidus (from the Ancient Greek κάλλος,"beautiful" + nectes, "swimmer", and Latin sapidus, "savory"), the blue crab, Atlantic blue crab, or, regionally, the Maryland blue crab, is a species of crab native to the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and introduced internationally.
The tables below include tabular lists for selected basic foods, compiled from United States Dept. of Agriculture sources.Included for each food is its weight in grams, its calories, and (also in grams,) the amount of protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, fat, and saturated fat. [1]
Soft-shelled blue crabs in New Orleans, Louisiana Three soft-shell crabs, ready for preparation, and cooking. Soft-shell crab is a culinary term for crabs that have recently molted their old exoskeleton and are still soft. [1] Soft-shells are removed from the water as soon as they molt or, preferably, just before to prevent any hardening of ...
American soldier Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue, in the 1994 drama-comedy film Forrest Gump Removing the "sand vein" (a euphemism for the digestive tract ) is referred to as "deveining". The sand vein can be removed by making a shallow cut lengthwise down the outer curve of the shrimp's body, allowing the dark ribbon-like digestive tract to be ...
The carapace may reach 15 centimetres (5.9 in) wide, and 7 cm (2.8 in) from front to back. P. trituberculatus may be distinguished from the closely related (and also widely fished) P. armatus by the number of broad teeth on the front of the carapace (three in P. trituberculatus, four in P. armatus) and on the inner margin of the merus (four in P. trituberculatus, three in P. armatus).
Fresh, frozen or canned crab meat may be used in the preparation of crab dip. [4] [5] [9] Different types of crab meat may be used, such as jumbo lump, [6] [7] lump [4] backfin, [5] leg [10] and claw, among others. Various types of crab species and superfamilies are also used, such as blue crab, [2] [11] Dungeness crab [8] and Alaska king crab ...