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Crab

Crab is an edible crustacean commonly steamed, boiled, grilled, or added to soups and other seafood dishes.

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About Crab

Crab is an edible marine or freshwater crustacean with a hard shell, jointed legs, and claws in many species. The whole animal may be steamed, boiled, grilled, baked, or otherwise cooked, or incorporated into soups, sauces, rice dishes, and other seafood preparations.

Crab has a firm, segmented body and delicate meat whose sweetness and texture vary by species and body part. The term does not specify a species, habitat, body parts, or whether the edible flesh has been removed.

It is sold live, whole and cooked, chilled, frozen, or cleaned. The shell may be retained for presentation or flavour during cooking. Cooking changes the shell and meat, while cleaning or picking removes structural parts and leaves the edible flesh ready for use.

Ingredient type
whole food

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Local names for crab

Names and romanised forms to recognise on menus and labels.

English

Crab

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crab leg

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Crab, canned

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Crab, flesh, purchased steamed or boiled

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Crab, soft shell

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Crabe ou tourteau, bouilli/cuit à l'eau

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Crabe, cru

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Crabe, miettes et ou pattes décortiquées, appertisé, égoutté

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Crustaceans, crab, alaska king, cooked, moist heat

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Crustaceans, crab, alaska king, imitation, made from surimi

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Crustaceans, crab, alaska king, raw

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Crustaceans, crab, blue swimming, lump, pasteurized, refrigerated

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Crustaceans, crab, blue, canned

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Crustaceans, crab, blue, cooked, moist heat

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Crustaceans, crab, blue, raw

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Reticular egg crab, Raw

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Crab nutrition & diet

Crab nutritional value

Reference: Crab, flesh, purchased steamed or boiled

Per 100 g of the edible portion of the stated reference food.

Calories
88.4kcal
Protein
20.2g
Carbs
0.0g
Fat
0.7g

Reference example for the named food and preparation, per 100 g edible portion. This is not a universal value for every recipe or brand; packaged products should be compared with their own label. © Food Standards Australia New Zealand. AFCD Release 3, food F003243. Available carbohydrate excludes sugar alcohols; energy converted from kJ to kcal (÷4.184). Australian data may not be appropriate for use in other countries. There are limitations associated with food composition databases. Food composition data used in the database or databases may represent an average of the nutrient content of a particular sample of foods and ingredients, determined at a particular time. The nutrient composition of foods and ingredients can vary substantially between batches and brands because of a number of factors, including changes in season, processing practices and ingredient source, and methods of calculation. Data licensed under the FSANZ Data User Licence Agreement, based on CC BY-SA 3.0 AU: https://www.foodstandards.gov.au/science-data/monitoringnutrients/afcd/datauserlicenceagreement.

Portions & preparation

Identify the crab species and match the reference to the edible meat portion, with shell, roe, and cooking liquid excluded or included consistently. Steaming, boiling, grilling, frying, sauces, and mixed dishes should be recorded separately from plain crab.

Compare the right form: Use a reference for the identified crab species and the specified raw or cooked edible meat portion, excluding or accounting for shell and roe.

Diet considerations

Crab is an animal-derived crustacean. Compatibility changes with breading, wheat-based coatings, dairy sauces, mixed seafood, animal stock, and preparation in cakes or soups. Plain crab meat has a different portion-dependent carbohydrate pattern from fried, flour-bound, sweetened, or starch-thickened preparations.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Typically incompatible
  • Vegetarian
    Typically incompatible
  • Pescatarian
    Typically compatible
  • Keto
    May be compatible
  • Paleo
    May be compatible
  • Low-carb
    May be compatible
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Typically incompatible
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Typically incompatible
The ingredient profile identifies an animal-derived food or derivative.
Vegetarian · Typically incompatible
The profile identifies animal flesh, seafood or a derivative excluded by a vegetarian diet.
Pescatarian · Typically compatible
Seafood fits this pescatarian definition. Added meat-based stock or other ingredients would need checking separately.
Keto · May be compatible
The plain form may fit a carbohydrate-restricted diet. Check the portion, added sugar, coatings and sauces against the nutrition values above.
Paleo · May be compatible
May fit a paleo pattern, depending on the cut or form, processing and added ingredients.
Low-carb · May be compatible
The plain form may fit a carbohydrate-restricted diet. Check the portion, added sugar, coatings and sauces against the nutrition values above.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Typically incompatible
This profile identifies shellfish, which does not meet the kosher fish criteria.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: Australian Food Composition Database, Release 3, 2025 — Crab, flesh, purchased steamed or boiled ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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