Research progress of dry-cure technology of sea cucumber

The sea cucumber is an invertebrate animal living in sea water belonging to the phylum Echinodermata.Up to now,more than 50 kinds of nutrition contents had been found in the sea cucumber.Sea cucumber is looked on as a delicious and expense dish for its high nutrition and tonic function.There are many valuable active components in the sea cucumber.The sea cucumber can autolyze after leaving sea water,it is difficult to preserve and transport.As a result,most of the fresh sea cucumber all over the world is processed to dehydrated product.Up to now,most of sea cucumbers are dehydrated by traditional techniques which need to add salt,boil again and again and expose to solar radiation.In this paper,some new drying methods of sea cucumbers were introduced and the development direction of the drying technology was also shown.