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Fish Scales: Medicinal and Edible Delicacy
When slaughtering fish, people usually scrape off the scales. However, properly processed fish scales become a delicacy with dual medicinal and nutritional benefits, delicious and healthy.
Fish scales are rich in protein, lecithin, fatty acids, minerals, vitamins, gelatin, and trace elements. Notably, they contain high levels of calcium and phosphorus. Fish scale gel tablets made from fish scales are excellent nutritional supplements suitable for both food and medicine. Lecithin in fish scales can enhance memory and slow down brain cell degeneration, offering anti-aging effects. Multiple unsaturated fatty acids in fish scales help transport and emulsify fats in the blood via binding proteins, reducing cholesterol deposition in blood vessel walls—thus preventing arteriosclerosis, hypertension, and heart disease. Children who regularly eat fish scale fragments can prevent rickets. To make fish scale gel tablets: first clean the scales, boil with water over high heat, then simmer gently for about three hours. Remove undissolved scales, add a bit of yellow wine, ginger, garlic, salt, reboil several times, add a touch of monosodium glutamate, let cool for about 12 hours until gel-like, slice thinly, mix with sesame oil and sesame paste—resulting in transparent, sparkling fish scale gel tablets.