Is the conch butt "shit" or "yellow"? In fact, many people don't eat it right. The correct way to eat it turns out to be like this
Midsummer is here, and it's time for the conch to go on sale. The fresh and fragrant conch has always been a delicacy for seafood lovers, but a problem has plagued people who eat conch for a long time, that is, can the butt of the conch be eaten? Some netizens said that the butt of the conch is conch yellow, which is the essence of the whole conch and must be eaten. There are also netizens who say that the conch butt is actually full of conch shit, and eating this stuff is equivalent to eating Oli. So what exactly is in the conch butt? Which parts of the conch can be eaten and which parts cannot be eaten? In this issue, the Ziya Childhood Knowledge Bureau will show you how to eat conch correctly. What's up with the conch's butt
The conch we can buy in the market is generally flat jade snail, also called navel The snail is a kind of edible conch with thick flesh and delicious taste. Some people say that the conch butt tastes delicious and delicate, and some people say that the conch butt tastes fishy and smelly. In order to verify whether the butt of the conch can be eaten, we might as well go to the market to buy a flat jade conch, steam it and find out. After taking out the conch meat completely, it is not difficult to find that the butt of the conch is a coiled tubular structure, and the color is still yellow and light brown. At first glance, it does look like shit. This part is actually the yellow and liver of the conch, both of which are edible. But a small part of the conch's butt near the body is the conch's esophagus and stomach, which is dark brown in color. It's full of sediment and digestive juices, and that's where the stench comes from. So if you want to eat conch butt, it is better to eat only slightly yellow liver and yellow. In addition to the conch's butt that cannot be eaten, the seemingly fat and tender body of the conch actually has many places that cannot be eaten. Next, let's cut open the belly of the conch to see what is hidden inside. As we said earlier, there is a conch stomach in the butt of the conch, which is fishy and smelly and cannot be eaten at all. Many people mistake it for conch shit. But the real conch excrement is actually hidden in its body, and many people may eat the conch's Ollie in a confused way. So, what can't be eaten by the conch body that seems to be full of meat? Can the internal organs of the conch be eaten?
Take out the body of the white and tender conch, we can find a pink meat ball where the conch connects the tail, which is the kidney of the conch , it is full of toxins, it is not recommended to eat. There is something similar to tripe on the abdomen of the conch. This thing is the gill of the conch. It is full of unwashed sand and has a bad taste, so it is not recommended to eat it. There is a black line around the body of the conch. Many people think it is the large intestine of the conch, which is full of Baba. But this organ is actually the genitalia of the conch, which contains micro-toxicity. Edible, but not tasty. The next step is to disembowel the conch, cut the meat of the conch, there will be a cyan line inside, this is the real large intestine of the conch, and it is full of conch excrement. But because it is deeply hidden in the conch meat, many people have become the conch old man once without knowing it, and ate a mouthful of conch feces. Close to the large intestine of the conch is a pale pink organ with a color close to the meat. This is the pancreas of the conch. It has a high content of purines, and eating too much will lead to gout. It is not recommended to eat it. And the taste of this thing is very bad. You can make up for the liver-like, fishy and scum under the chicken rack. It is recommended to remove it when eating. After all the above things are removed, what remains is the conch meat with full taste and teeth, which can be eaten with confidence. But at this time, some netizens questioned that they were from a coastal city and had eaten conch shells for decades. These internal organs have been eaten and no poisoning has been seen. If you throw away all the things mentioned above, a conch may be left in half, so do you really have to be so cautious when eating conch? How to eat conch?
Actually, the effects of toxins in the internal organs of conch snails vary from person to person. Some people are born with strong resistance to toxins in the salivary glands of conch snails and other organs, or they often eat conch snails and their bodies have adapted to these mild toxins, so they feel Nothing happens. But some people who eat conch for the first time, or who eat a lot of conch at one time, may cause food poisoning if they eat a lot of conch offal. And long-term consumption of conch viscera is easy to cause gout due to excessive intake of purines, even if it is not poisoned. So for the sake of safety, it is safer to throw away all the internal organs of the conch. In addition, the taste of these conch offal is generally poor, either fishy or bitter, or taste like mud. Even if they weren't poisonous, they definitely wouldn't taste good. After all, who wants to eat conch oligium and vomit? By the way, a little knowledge about cooking conch, we mentioned in the previous program of Fushou snail, the structure of snail meat is somewhat different from that of other animals. It is a special sponge that expands and becomes hard when it absorbs water. Therefore, it is not recommended to boil the conch for a long time, otherwise the meat will be old and hard, and the aroma will be weakened. Steaming has always been the most popular way to cook conch. After watching this episode, will you eat conch even more? Do you usually eat the internal organs when you eat conch? Comments are welcome. If you like my content, please follow me, like and forward me, every encouragement from you will be the motivation for me to make better content.