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Shrimp are largely distributed around the globe in both salty and non-salty waters. Together with prawn, shrimp are widely hunted and raised for culinary purposes, where both are commonly called as shrimp in layman terms. However, note that the two are actually different by nature.
Both sea creatures differ in the structures of their gills, where for shrimps it’s of lamella shaped and for prawns it’s branching-out. Prawns are identical to lobsters, as the former have 2 pairs of short frontal claw. However, it is with shrimps and prawns which are often used interchangeably, most especially in culinary aspect.
Sumptuous and pricey gourmet recipes of which, shrimp or prawn are widely sought after by people with fine taste in sea food cuisines, international or local, complicated or easy shrimp recipes. To date, there are various local or foreign ideals culturally associated with complicated artistic food preparation and presentation of elaborate food course involving shrimps or prawns. However, it is said to be a widely known fact that shrimp recipes whether of elaborate presentation or simply presented in any table whether from world class fine dining restaurants or plainly ordinary home dining tables, shrimp recipes are an all-time favorite, patronized and loved by kids and adults as well as the sensitive palates of the senior age bracket citizens.
It is said that cholesterol are not good for the health especially for adults and most especially for senior citizens group. However, even with such nutritional fact widely known by many including the senior age bracket citizens, shrimp based cuisines are still patronized by many of such age group. However, with the widely spread of nutrition campaign against observing a high cholesterol diet, shrimps which are known to be a rich source of cholesterol are still widely and highly marketed mainly because of its sumptuously delicious taste. Unknown to most public the nutritional facts of shrimp based recipes.
Nutrition Facts with Easy Shrimp Recipes
 A shrimp inspired dish is rich in cholesterol, commonly known literally as “fats”. It is said to contain 122 mg-251 mg cholesterol/100 g of shrimp according to the manner of preparing.
Diets with shrimp based dishes is said to be considerably healthy for human circulation system as shrimps are said to contain less amount of saturated cholesterol or literally the bad cholesterol and contains more of the good cholesterol or unsaturated fats. Therefore, eating shrimp based recipes evens out ratio of good cholesterol against bad cholesterol thus lowering trans-fat or triglycerides.
Differing Usage of Terms for Shrimp Recipes
Different parts of the world have different names used to refer to shrimp recipes easy or complicated in its food menu. In the U.K, the term “prawn” is more popularly used in its food menu pages, although such referred prawn recipe is actually a shrimp inspired cuisine. It is of great contrast in Northern America. The terminology “prawns” is also widely used to collectively refer to any big sized shrimps such as 15 lb. shrimps, otherwise commonly referred as “king-size prawn” and is sometimes referred to as well as “jumbo-size shrimp. Literally, whenever one comes across with prawn recipes in any food menu pages in Northern America, it is actually referring to shrimp recipes.
In parallel with Northern America, Australia and few other Commonwealth governed countries follow Britain’s nomenclature usage to a wider extent, using the term “prawns” in an exclusive manner, wherefore, even simply easy shrimp recipes are still referred to as prawn recipes.
In addition, British have its version of very tiny brown colored shell crustaceans also known as shrimp, which are utilized in potted easy shrimp recipes. Such potted recipe, the shrimps are not the basic cooking component.
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