1, the appearance is different: sea eggplant has no thorns, and its luster is average, and its appearance is like eggplant. Sea cucumber is dark brown, translucent, evenly expanded, round, without hard heart, and the meat thorn is complete.
2, the taste is different: the meat of sea cucumber is thicker, and the taste of sea eggplant is a bit bitter.
3. Different nutrition: Although sea eggplant also belongs to the category of sea cucumber, it is not as nutritious as sea cucumber and has low edible value.
Introduction of sea eggplant and sea cucumber;
Sea eggplant generally refers to sea cucumber, commonly known as Solanum lyratum Thunb. Because it has no thorns, it is also called ginseng. It is an edible sea cucumber, which is produced in Nanhai, China, and tastes similar to sea cucumber. Sea eggplant is a cheaper substitute for sea cucumber? .
Because there are more than 900 species of sea cucumbers in the world, and there are about 140 species in China, sea eggplant is the name given to some sea cucumbers by people in the sea cucumber industry. Stichopus japonicus is the most famous sea cucumber variety in China. Sea cucumbers in China are distributed in temperate zone and tropical zone, temperate zone is mainly distributed in Bo Huang sea area, and tropical zone is mainly distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan coast.