Crayfish also come in white and blue as well as the most common red
Welcome to our brand new weekly feature... The Super Food.
Each week we'll pick a food that we think you should try and incorporate into your diet at least twice within the next week - obviously not if you are allergic to any of the suggestions.
We promise to provide you with all the information that we can find on the particular food and hopefully offer some recipes too, that will make it so much harder for you to deny eating them.
Eating right is not just about losing weight to look good, we all need to take steps to ensure that we lead a healthy lifestyle so we can live a longer, more enjoyable life. Who doesn't want to be still moving around aged 80?
So, first up we have Crayfish.
According to the LSU Agricultural Centre, crayfish meat is more easily digested than other types of meat because of it's short muscle fibres.
It's also a low fat food, with only one gram of fat per serving and no saturated fat - be sure to boil it though if you want these benefits.
Matt Robinson, Head chef at Gordon Ramsey's The Narrow Pub, rates the use of crayfish: "They're versatile; you can use them as a stand-alone ingredient or in soups, pasta dishes like crayfish ravioli, or as part of a garnish for a main course."
Crayfish included in the diet may offer some of the health benefits ascribed to seafood in general, including protection against Alzheimers, stroke cancer, asthma and heart disease. 
The presence of them in the water is a sign of lack of severe contamination, as they cleanse the water of detritus and carrion - in other words, all the bad stuff in the water. They also come in different colours, white, blue and red. Red is the more common and white the least so.
Matt advises on the best way to serve and enjoy them, he says: "Straight from the river into boiling salted water served with some real mayo, lemon wedges, fresh bread and a cold beer. Heaven!"
Well you're doing a good thing in eating them in the first place, so why not indulge a little?
Recipes from the IKEA Kitchen
Crayfish Summer Wrap:
Fresh crayfish tails, crisp rocket lettuce, dill, lemon mayonnaise, all wrapped in Swedish flat bread
'Trio' Open Sandwich with Crayfish and Salmon:
A slice of freshly baked Swedish bread, layer with crisp lettuce, top a third with Crayfish tails and a twist of fresh lemon, a third with a twist of gravadlax salmon topped with dill sauce and then a third topped with a sliced egg topped with Seaweed topping, adding fresh dill to finish.
Overall, boiled crayfish are a good source of protein. Its low fat levels make it suitable for any dieters and the omega-3 fats - which we are told are actually good for us - and abundant micronutrients it contains provides many potential health benefits.
However, people watching their cholesterol levels should exercise caution when including crayfish in their diets, since one serving provides 38 per cent of the daily recommended allowance.
So, what about you? Are you going to incorporate this into your diet this week?
Let us know how it goes in the comments box below.
Femalefirst Taryn Davies
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