Plate of delicious pasta with shrimp, hot, freshly brewed delicious lobster or salmon steak with fragrant crisp, popular seafood is unlikely someone decides to challenge. In some countries seafood - it's not just the food, loved by many, as a staple food. It so happened that some regions are practically unsuitable for agriculture, and in such cases it is seafood become the "bread" which figuratively and literally feeds millions of local residents. However, despite the immense popularity of seafood in the world about their favorite delicacies we know not all. There are at least ten facts about seafood that will surprise you.

Lobsters and Crabs feel pain

The practice of boiling lobsters and crabs live as has long been sharply criticized and condemned animal rights. Activists such movements compared to a method of preparing a real torture. Lovers of seafood delicacies in the form of cooked crabs and lobsters justify such a way of cooking that lobsters and crabs made insensitive to pain. However, recent studies show that animal rights is not so wrong.

Crustaceans are really able to feel pain. According to generally accepted theory body equipped with nociceptors crustaceans, receptors that respond to stimuli dangerous, but do not provoke a feeling of pain, respectively, when immersed in boiling water in a living shellfish do not experience pain infernal. A group of scientists Queens University in Belfast, led by Robert Elwood decided to test this theory. The researchers subjected the experimental crustaceans rather cruel test methods: shrimp exposed to acetic acid, the crabs were introduced into a state of shock. Each time, scientists have noted a definite response to stimulation of the animal or other areas. In addition, even in crustaceans was marked positive reaction to the anesthetic. These reactions say a complex reaction to pain, and this is not superfluous to recall, before once again send in boiling water live lobster.

Parasitic nematodes

Buying a beautiful thick fish steaks in the "appendage" to buy, and we risk a rather unpleasant bonus. Popular types of fish, such as trout or salmon, often become infected roundworm parasites, such as Anisakis simplex. This "cute" creatures curled in glomeruli, are settling in the fish, we are going to eat. Fishermen are aware of the existence of these parasites, so the products of the leading fishing companies under scrutiny for nematode, however, despite the strict control from time to time on the shelves gets fish infested with nematodes.

If you properly cook fish, subjecting it to a heat treatment sufficient, you have nothing to fear. But if you are half-baked or eaten raw fish parasites definitely ruin your day, or even something worse. If these creatures, hitting the esophagus, penetrates the stomach, your medical diagnosis will sound like anizakiaz. As a rule, it anizakiaz accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea and severe cramping in the abdominal area.

Vienna shrimps

Shrimp - one of the most beloved and popular seafood species. In our diet shrimp there a long time, but there is still no clear answer to the question whether before cooking to remove the shrimp from the vein. What we call the vein shrimp have, in fact, is nothing like the intestine, so it is likely that at the time of preparation of the intestine shrimp are still remnants of food.

Shrimp feed on benthic organisms and it is believed that the remains of food in the intestines affect the taste of the shrimp after cooking, giving the meat its distinctive taste sandstone. Most often a matter of removing "cava" refers to the major types of shrimp, from small species, this "Vienna" virtually invisible. But some connoisseurs notice that the presence of veins still affect the flavor of small shrimp. Be that as it may, some prefer prawns with "veins", and others - no. And there are those who prefer to eat raw shrimp, or even in a live form. In general, there are prawns with "veins" or without them, a matter of personal preference, in any case, the presence of "veins" poses no threat to human health.

Salmon of Wisdom

Ancient legend tells of an Irish salmon, possessing great wisdom and outstanding abilities. According to legend, those who eat this salmon, acquire the gift of prophecy. Druid named Finegas for a long time patiently lying in wait of the salmon to catch, eat it and find all the talent that I had this wonderful fish. Finally, he managed to catch that elusive salmon.

Of course, Finegas not going to eat fish raw, so he ordered his disciple Demna cook salmon. But Finegasu unlucky Demna touched preparing salmon and burned finger. As they say, without a second thought to relieve pain and to cool the sizzling heat of a finger, the young man put it in your mouth salmon. And then the wisdom and strength of salmon fell to him. Not hard to guess how disappointed was Finegas. However, nothing has changed, he could not, Salmon of Wisdom chose not his. Demna later she became known as the Finn, and endowed with power and wisdom Salmon, later became the great Irish captain.