Flower nails can't generally be eaten whole. Strictly speaking, it is best not to eat the shell and internal organs of the flower armor, and only eat the soft tissue of the muscle inside the shell can be eaten. Before cooking the flower armor, the shell of the flower armor is cleaned first, so that it can spit out the sand, and then use a knife to pick off the internal organs of the flower armor, and then make the production.

Can the flower armor be eaten whole

The flower armor, commonly known as flower clams, known as mango snails in the Hainan area, is a mollusk, about 3 cm long, small, the surface color is generally yellowish-brown, black, brown, dark brown, dense color or russet color composed of spots or patterns.

The flower nail is one of the seafood food, mainly born in the intertidal zone a few meters below the depth of the shallow sea area, inhabiting the sandy or sandy mud intertidal zone and shallow sea, especially in estuarine waters, generally in the coast are distributed, every year, from October to November is its breeding season.