Shrimp; used as a versatile food which can be added to the stir-fried dishes, pastas, soups and curries

 

Shrimp is a very good source of omega-3 fatty acids, selenium, astaxanthin, and vitamin B12, and is also an anti-oxidant.  Shrimp has an elongated body and a swimming pattern for their movement. Shrimp is very similar to that prawn which has crustaceans with long muscular tails and slender legs. Small shrimps are very replicative of their crustacean. They move forward by padding their abdomens. Shrimps are very expanding and plenty in nature, and thousands of these species have been acquired to a wide scale of the habitats. They can be generally seen near the seafloor or on the coasts and rivers and lakes. Few species flip off or turn the sea floor and go down deep into the sediment.

 Shrimp play a very vital role in the food chain and are also a very essential food source for the vast number of animals scaling from fish to whales. Shrimp have muscular tails which can be consumed by the people and they are mostly farmed and caught just for the consumption of human beings. Crangon is an example of the classification of shrimp. The body of the shrimp is broadly divided into two segments the head and the thorax which are infused together to make a cephalothorax along with a long abdomen. The shell of the shrimp protects the cephalothorax which is thick and hard and the protective shield of the shrimp is known as the carapace.

 The carapace or the shell of the shrimp surrounds the gills, from which the water is pumped by the parts of the mouth. The nose, beak, and head are all issued from the shrimp’s carapace. The muscular abdomen has classified segments that have a thinner shell than the carapace and has six segments. Shrimp is consumed widely in many parts of the world. As per medium.com, 60,000 metric tons of shrimp are consumed by the people of Germany annually.