Science Name: Anguilla anguilla
Other Names: river eel, white eel

Products:
Fresh water eel in live, roasted and frozen

Brief introduction:
The eel can be grouped to freshwater eel and seawater eel. It is a snake like fish. It looks like a prehistoric monster, with a big mouth and sharp teeth. It is a rare edible fish with high value of health. It is rich in fat and carbohydrate, which are higher than any other fishes. The freshwater eel is also named as white eel and snake fish, which features in the richness of fat. The content of cholesterin is quite high too. While the contents of fat and cholesterin in the seawater eel is much lower.

Function:
The eel is rich in nutritional elements. It can tonify deficiency, enrich blood, eliminate damp, prevent from tuberculosis, and so on. It is an excellent tonic for the long time patient, the weakness, the anemia, the TB sufferers, etc. The eel can also be served as health food for the young couple, the mid- and old-age, because it contains a kind of Western River Rock protein, which can improve energy and strongth the kidney. The eel is rich in calcicum. To sever it regularly will increase the blood calcium, and build up the constitution. The eel is a good food for the night blindness because of the rich vitamine A in the liver.

Warm warn:
The eel is a kind of stimulating food. It should not be served to the chronic patient and the hypersusceptibility to aquatic products.