Another name for the fish sweetfish. It was born out of affection for sweetfish. Generally, freshwater fish have a bland taste or a muddy smell, but sweetfish have a refreshing taste, hence the name. Sweetfish feed mainly on diatoms and blue-green algae that grow on rocks and pebbles, giving them a distinctive fragrance. Sweetfish eat a lot of algae in the summer between June and August, becoming obese and accumulating a lot of fat in their abdominal cavity, which gives them a good smell and taste. Other fish closely related to the sweetfish family, such as the smelt, smelt, smelt, and whiting, also have a distinctive cucumber-like smell similar to sweetfish, but they are not called fragrant fish. [Akira Ochiai and Kunio Amano, January 20, 2015] [Reference] | |The top photo shows wild ayu, and the bottom photo shows farmed ayu ©Shogakukan "> Ayu Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend |
魚類のアユの異名。アユに対する愛着から生まれた。一般に淡水魚の食味は淡泊であるか泥臭いにおいがあるが、アユはさわやかな食味があるところからこのようによばれるようになった。アユは岩や小石に生える珪藻(けいそう)や藍藻(らんそう)を主食にするため特有な香りがある。とくに6~8月の間の夏アユは藻類をよく食べて肥満し、腹腔(ふくこう)内に多くの脂肪を蓄積するので、香りも食味もよい。アユ科に近縁のキュウリウオ科のシシャモ、キュウリウオ、ワカサギ、チカなどもアユのにおいに似たキュウリのような独特のにおいがあるが、香魚とはいわない。 [落合 明・尼岡邦夫 2015年1月20日] [参照項目] | |写真上は天然アユ、下は養殖アユ©Shogakukan"> アユ 出典 小学館 日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)日本大百科全書(ニッポニカ)について 情報 | 凡例 |
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