What are Your Best Options When it Comes to NZ Green Lipped Mussel Recipes?

NZ green lipped mussel recipes are widely available on cooking sites and blogs, in magazines and recipes books.

While they surely look delicious and seem more or less complicated to prepare, these recipes have some drawbacks, as follows

• Fresh green lipped mussels are hard to find for people not living in New Zealand or Australia.
• Cooking these shellfish alters most of its ingredients, regardless the used method.
• Green lipped mussel recipes provide almost no health benefit compared to raw seafood.

So how can these problems be overcome?

Frozen vs Canned Mussel

Although less healthy compared to raw shellfish, frozen green lipped mussels can sometimes provide good amounts of nutrients. The only problem is that, when purchasing these products from hypermarkets, it's really difficult to say how fresh they were before being frozen so you may have the unpleasant surprise to discover an altered color, taste or smell when defrosting them.

Then, it's known that freezing mussels means losing most of their active ingredients. So if you opt for this type of seafood, you'll only get reduced amounts of vitamins, proteins, minerals, fatty acids and complex carbohydrates. An alternative to these products is represented by canned seafood, which unfortunately is also less healthy compared to freshly harvested mussels and contains high amounts of additives and chemicals.

As you can see, preparing healthy NZ green lipped mussel recipes can be a real challenge so perhaps you should opt for another type of product made from this New Zealand seafood in order to get advantage of its multiple health benefits.

Effects of high temperatures on mussels

Our second problem, as highlighted before, referred to the high temperatures used for preparing GLM recipes. Just like freezing, steaming, baking or grilling these shellfish destroys most of their nutrients thus the obtained NZ green lipped mussel recipes, tasty or not, would surely lack health benefits. And this applies for raw shellfish as well as for the defrost and canned ones.

This is another important problem which can't really be avoided when cooking green lipped mussels so perhaps it's the right moment to ask yourself why you want to prepare a meal from these mussels. If you're only doing this for the taste of the food, you're probably not interested in the amazing benefits these shellfish may provide.

But if you're trying to get the most of the active ingredients in this seafood, you surely don't need to look for NZ green lipped mussel recipes anymore. The best alternative for you in this situation is represented by GLM dietary supplements, which are able to provide the same health benefits as raw mussels.

Cooked seafood vs dietary supplements

Unlike cooked shellfish, powders and oils obtained from New Zealand mussels contain lots of active nutrients, which can fight against inflammatory processes reducing arthritis and asthma symptoms, can improve the functioning of the nervous, cardiovascular, digestive and immune system and promote a beautiful physical appearance.