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Is it bad to eat the black stuff in shrimp?

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It is completely edible. If you still want to remove it, cook and shell the shrimp, pull off a narrow strip on its back, peel the strip down to the tail revealing the dark line, and with a small knife remove the tract. If any of it remains, don't give it a second thought.

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