The reason why sea cucumbers stick toothpicks is because they can support sea cucumbers. Although sea cucumber is easy to store and carry, it is also easy to be adulterated. There is even a phenomenon that toothpicks are inserted into sea cucumbers in the market. The purpose is to support the head with toothpicks. Putting too many toothpicks will make the head of sea cucumber high.

Sea cucumbers belong to invertebrates, echinoderms and sea cucumbers. There are more than 900 species in the world, and about 140 species in China. Among them, the Indian Ocean and the Western Pacific Ocean are the regions with the largest variety and resources of sea cucumbers in the world.

Introduction of sea cucumber

Sea cucumbers in China are distributed in temperate zone and tropical zone. The temperate zone is mainly located in Bo Huang sea area, and the main economic species is Stichopus japonicus, which is also the most famous sea cucumber species in China. The tropics are mainly in the coastal areas of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, and the main economic variety is Japanese ginseng.

Xisha Islands, Nansha Islands and Hainan Island are the main producing areas of tropical sea cucumbers in China. Sea cucumber ranks among all kinds of delicious food, and also has a variety of health care functions specially designated by Chinese medicine. Over the past half century, scholars at home and abroad have studied more than 40 kinds of chemical constituents of sea cucumber. The research shows that sea cucumber is not only rich in more than 50 kinds of nutrients needed by human body, such as amino acids, vitamins and chemical elements.

It also contains acidic mucopolysaccharides, saponins, collagen and other bioactive substances, and the pharmacological activities of sea cucumber active substances are very extensive.