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Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

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Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

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On November 28, the World Cup in Qatar, South Korea lost 2:3 to Ghana, a small West African country, and Son Heung-min was attacked by South Korean netizens.

The Republic of Ghana is not well known, only one Walter Reservoir is famous. As one of the least developed countries in the world, athletes supplement nutrition and cannot eat beef and mutton every day, but there is a local delicacy - African giant snail, which is loved and can be called "walking protein".

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

Ghanaians eat 15,000 tons of African giant snails every year, and the wild ones are almost extinct, and currently they can only be farmed in captivity.

The African giant snail is an invasive species in China, let alone cooking, people have to walk around when they see it. Why do Africans eat but nothing happens?

Chinese love food, it stands to reason that you shouldn't miss a big dish?

Today's article will take you to know a common ingredient for Africans such as Ghana and Nigeria - African giant snail.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

A giant snail with extraordinary talent

The African giant snail, as the name suggests, is from Africa, it is native to East Africa, also known as brown cloud agate snail. Adult African snails are about 7 or 8 cm long, and some can reach more than 20 cm in size.

Listing that number and it feels like that, but if you put it in the palm of your hand, you will feel its "huge" oppression.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

The African giant snail has an albino breed, commonly known as the "white jade snail", which is most common if the snail is kept as a pet or as an object of observation experiments.

The white snail looks clean and walks slowly, which is loved by children.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

It can only be said that everything depends on appearance

If you buy an African giant snail, no, white jade snail as a pet, pay attention to its two characteristics as a mollusk.

First, the eating guy handed down from the ancestors of mollusks - toothed tongue.

As shown in the GIF below, when it swallows food, it has a white tooth-like thing.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

This is a video I took when I was raising snails before

Snails have the most teeth in the world, with 25,000 teeth. Their teeth are more like washboards than the permanent teeth of humans or other mammals, and snails use this flexible washboard to "scrape" food when eating.

If you touch something hard, your teeth will also fall out, but they will grow back. It is the hardest part of the snail's body and can even be used to gnaw cement.

By the way, when emphasizing the harm of the African giant snail, people always like to say "it eats everything, including sand and cement", but the purpose of snails eating soil and cement is not to feed, but to absorb calcium.

If there is a long-term calcium deficiency, the snail's shell will become brittle, and it must continuously ingest anything around it that may contain calcium, such as soil.

Generally, snails eat soil, and after absorbing it, they will pull it out intact, eat what it eats, and pull it out.

Because of long-term calcium supplementation, the tooth tongue of snails is very hard and durable. After the ancestors of gastropods landed, they discovered a very wide range of recipes by toothed tongues. It eats everything from vegetables to fruits, from flowers to trees.

If you can't scrape it in one bite, I will continue to scrape, a trick is fresh, eat all over the sky, water drops and stones pierce, and will always eat you into your mouth.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

Do you think the toothed tongue is very useful? This is also why mollusks use toothed tongues from shells to octopuses.

Second, snails are hermaphroditic, with each snail carrying two complete, working sets of genitals.

When the natural conditions are good and the food is plentiful, two snails meet and will engage in slow motion activities... You think they're in love? No!

They are dueling.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

"Sabre-rattling" snail duel

After the duel, the winner is the father, and the loser is the mother. As for why, it's not that snails prefer sons, but pregnancy is costly for any animal that needs metabolism.

Once pregnant, it needs to find more food and calcium, and its viability decreases. Male snails, on the other hand, only need to provide DNA, put on their pants and leave.

However, the female snail does not have to worry, this time the mother, the next time the male. After losing a fight, the African giant snail will lay eggs for a period of time, and the number is as high as 150 to 300.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

After these eggs hatch, the baby snails reach sexual maturity within 5 months and then head out on the street to find another snail and make an appointment.

A large African snail can live for five or six years, and in this long life, it will be a father and a mother, and the direct descendants after a few generations are astronomical.

A wide range of food sources and strong fertility make the African giant snail a strong invasive species.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

The real culprit of the Jinlan soy sauce extinction case

In 1985, Taiwan's Jinlan soy sauce family accidentally heard that Japanese people like to eat snails raw, and snails are very supplemental.

So they bought some African snails and raised them in their villas. Afraid that the snail is not clean, let people feed with fresh vegetables, until the snail excretes green feces -

At this time, the "toxins" in the snail's stomach are drained.

The chef then makes these snails into a raw salad. On June 27 of that year, after eating this dish, two generations of five people in the family were all infected with strongyloides guangzhou. Immediately, four people died, and one of the survivors died 10 years later.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

Zhong Qiugui, the second generation of the Jinlan soy sauce family (right)

There are two generations of the family, and the only surviving is the third son who was absent from this family banquet, who was overseas.

This is not the only news of strongyloides in Guangzhou. Beijing and Shanghai banned the sale of Fushou snails for a while, because 87 citizens were infected with strongyloides in Guangzhou after eating Fushou snails, which posed a great threat to life and health.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

This led to the rapid abandonment of Fushou snails by the market and people, the farmers who raised Fushou snails lost their market, a large number of Fushou snails were destroyed, a small number fled to the fields, and after a breeding season passed, another round of species flooded.

The African giant snail epidemic in the United States is similar. In 1966, a young American boy thought that the African giant snail was cute and returned to Miami with three of them. Since the snail is too alive and less interactive, he quickly gets tired of playing, and his grandmother decides to release the snail.

Thus, in just 7 years, the number of 3 snails became 18,000.

Today, African giant snails have captured Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Fujian, Hainan and other places on the mainland, and they have marched north one after another, and perhaps in a few years, northern netizens can also find giant snails after the rain.

Due to its large size and large diet, the African giant snail has seriously affected agriculture and forestry and is a pest. People have thought of many ways to prevent and control it, including hiring farmers to manually remove them during the breeding season, introducing ducks to eat snails (it turns out that ducks prefer rice), and applying medicines, but the results are not satisfactory.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

Snail dishes require simmering and paste

The French eat 300 million snails a year, and the French baked snails are more cumbersome, here is a recipe.

(The following part can be skipped directly to see the conclusion)

Buy canned snails without shells, which are marinated beforehand by salt.

Sauté the snails in butter and onion for 2 minutes and set aside.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

Add 5 tablespoons of butter, garlic, parsley and white wine to a blender to make garlic butter.

Place the snail meat in the prepared shell and add the garlic butter. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes.

Take out and serve with bread.

A recipe for Ghanaians to cook African giant snails:

Remove the snail from the shell and clean the internal organs.

Wash the snails with alum, salt, lemon juice until there is no mucus, a process that can take up to 30 minutes.

Put the cleaned snails in lightly salted water and bring to a boil. Simmer for an hour.

Make a sauce with onions, peppers, tomatoes and carrots, using a juicer. Add the stewed snails to the sauce and cook them until soft.

Serve with rice or yam.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

Have you found anything in common between the two recipes? It is eaten with thoroughly cooked snail meat (even stewed for 1 hour, and the French buy cooked snails directly) with a paste sauce, and Indians also eat Fushou snails.

Strongyloides guangzhouensis uses African snails or other species of snails as intermediate hosts, and when ingested, humans invade the brain, spinal cord and nerve roots.

When cooking African snails, Chinese often not cooked for taste considerations, especially the Cam Ranh soy sauce extinction case, directly raw food.

As a mollusk, snails are too far from humans, and they do not transmit zoonotic diseases, unlike mice and bats.

But African snails eat everything, not even cement, which leads to a variety of parasites living in their bodies, in this regard, Chinese have studied Fushou snails, which can be parasitized with 6,000 parasites.

There are many varieties of parasites, ranging from flat animal phylum to linear animal phylum, and since it is a "bug", high temperature can completely kill it.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

For Chinese, large snails such as African giant snails and Fushou snails are difficult to eat after thorough cooking, like rubber skin. Only when half-cooked is the taste is acceptable, but at this time the parasite is not eliminated.

In short, cooked taste is not good, uncooked is harmful to health, African snail although the meat is many large, for the Chinese who pay attention to eating, it is very chicken.

This is why Chinese do not eat African giant snails.

Ghanaian cuisine African giant snail, protein content is higher than beef, why not Chinese eat?

References:

https://www.wlrn.org/culture/2013-08-29/how-to-make-stew-with-giant-african-land-snails

https://foreignfork.com/escargot-recipe/

http://health.cq12320.cn/disease/detail?id=1794

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