Note when eating snails to avoid processions into the body

Every time the weather changes to cool like today, the boiled snail dish is extremely popular on every street and sidewalk. Eating snails in the chilly season is not only delicious, but also has a lot of nutritional value.

Not to mention, eating snails in the fall also helps you prevent many common diseases. Herbalist Bui Hong Minh (Vice Chairman of Ba Dinh Oriental Medicine Association, Hanoi) once said that stuffed snails can be processed into many medicinal dishes, fostering the body and improving health. Modern medicine also recognizes the high nutritional value of snails. In particular, eating snails regularly will help supplement more calcium, vitamins B1, B2 . This is also a very rich food in protein, potassium and contains sources of vitamin E, selenium, copper . extremely abundant.

Eating snail is so delicious, that's what a body is like. However, experts warn, there are important notes not to be missed when eating this food. If not, it will be easy for you to pick up the body.

The note when eating snail anyone should remember that:

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Soaking snails before boiling is a mandatory step before processing and eating snails

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh (Institute of Biotechnology and Food, Hanoi University of Science and Technology), snails are aquatic species, living in mud, so the risk of parasite infection is extremely high. If you do not soak the snail to release all the mud and then wash and process it, you may encounter a parasite infection when eating it.

Therefore, it is imperative to thoroughly soak the screws before washing and processing. It is best to minimize eating out of the restaurant because it may be overlooked. Or if you eat, you should only eat in familiar stores, reputable, understand the cooking process.

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Best after soaking snails with rice water, lemon juice . you need to be careful about making each snail.

Clean the screws before processing

This is also caused by snails living in mud. Therefore, the risk of contamination is difficult to avoid, requiring processors to be thoroughly cleaned. Best after soaking snails with rice water, lemon juice . you need to be careful about making each snail.

Remove the intestines because the snail's tail should contain a lot of dirt. After that, you need to squeeze the salt, squeeze the lemon and wash it again and again with clean water to remove all the mucus and dirt on the snail.

Cook the snail well

Many people do not usually give themselves a certain amount of time to boil snails. Especially many people have a habit of boiling dry snails (do not pour water to boil together). This causes the snail to produce a lot of water, boils very quickly and therefore also stops the cook faster.

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Many people do not usually give themselves a certain amount of time to boil snails.

According to Assoc.Prof.Dr. Nguyen Duy Thinh, as mentioned above, there are many parasites in snails. Many species of worms and flukes hide in this delicious and delicious food. If you do not boil for a long time, very carefully, you are likely to get tapeworms, which proliferate in the stomach.

Not stopping there, this expert said that eating boiled snails containing parasites not only causes them to enter the intestine but also into the eyes, causing blindness, paralysis . extremely dangerous. Therefore, it is necessary to be very wary of eating boiled snails each cold afternoon, which is the current favorite food.

Not to mention, eating unripe snails can make you face the risk of poisoning because snails live in ponds and mud. These areas are difficult to control all pollution or not, especially when snails are omnivorous.

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Eating undercooked snails can put you at risk of poisoning because snails live in ponds and mud.

Note

Tips boiled snails of the restaurant is 3 boiling 3 stomachs, ie 3 times water spilled up the surface, then north out, lest snails cooked thoroughly, dry, customers will criticize is not delicious. However, with this way of boiling snails, snails are never thoroughly cooked, usually only ripe and ripe.

So to ensure safety for your health, you need to boil snails more thoroughly and clean before processing, to avoid picking up the body.