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Definition of jelly fish
Characteristics of spoiled jelly fish
Structure of a Jellyfish
Jellyfish Processing
Grading of Jellyfish
Composition of fresh and processed jellyfish and
Uses of jelly fish
Jellyfish
Is a hemispherical saucer shaped transparent bell or umbrella with a slight bluish
tinge, bounded with fine marginal tentacles.
The mouth is on the undersurface of the umbrella and is protected by fused oral arms
commonly known as legs.
several species of scyphozoan jelly fish with mild stings are edible
edible jellyfish are estuarine in nature
Primarily caught from the Northwest Pacific and western pacific ocean by several
countries including :
Thailand, Indonesia, malaysia, Philippines and china
Species of jellyfish that are usually
utilized are:
Stomolophus melagris L.Agassiz, cannonball jellyfish
among the edible species Rhopilema esculentum
Kisinouye is the most abundant and important species in
Asian.
Facts: China is the first country to process jellyfish ( other
producing country learned the traditional processing
techniques from the Northern Chinese with slight
modification.)
Pre – processing of jellyfish
after harvesting it is cleaned by seawater.
scraped to remove mucus membranes and gonadal material