The amino acid content of whitebait is also quite rich, and its nutritional value is extremely high. It has the effects of tonifying kidney, strengthening yang, eliminating deficiency, promoting blood circulation, invigorating spleen and moistening lung, and is an excellent nourishing product.
Whitebait has the effects of moistening lung, relieving cough, strengthening spleen and stomach, dispersing lung qi and promoting diuresis, and can be used to treat spleen and stomach weakness, lung deficiency, cough and fatigue. It is reflected in the books such as Daily Materia Medica, Yao Kecheng's Eating Materia Medica, and Lin Yi's Biography of Medicine, and it has the effect of "nourishing stomach yin and dredging meridians". Modern nutritional analysis shows that whitebait is rich in nutrition and calcium, and has the characteristics of high protein and low fat. And there are basically no big fishbones, which is suitable for children to eat. It is considered that whitebait is a "total food" without fins and bones, and its nutrition is completely beneficial to human immune function and longevity. Whitebait is especially suitable for people with physical weakness, dyspepsia, malnutrition, lung deficiency, cough, hyperlipidemia, spleen and stomach weakness, fatigue and other diseases. Moreover, every100g of whitebait can supply 407 kilocalories, which is almost 5-6 times that of common edible fish. Its calcium content is as high as 76 1 mg, which is the highest among fish.