Snail is a mollusk that lives on land, belonging to Gastropoda, with a wide range of life, cold resistance and high temperature resistance. As the name implies, "snail" is a "cow" with a volute on its back. In fact, although it is small, it has "horns", great strength and delicious meat. It really looks like an ox. France is the earliest place to raise and eat snails in the world, and its recorded history can be traced back to ancient Rome. Nowadays, snails are eaten all over the world, especially in western Europe and North America. There are more than 40,000 kinds of snails, and individuals are large and small. The largest is the African snail, which can reach18× 7cm and weighs 500g. Snails have a strong vitality. On March 25th, 1846, an Englishman brought back two snails from Egypt, stuck them on a fixed plate and put them in the herbarium for collection. 1850 On March 5th, it was found that there was a newly formed mucosa in one of the shells. The researcher was so surprised that he took it off the board and put it in a warm water basin. In a short time, its body emerged from its shell, and began to eat vegetable leaves the next day, and fully recovered after one month. This snail has survived for four years without food and drinking water, which shows its strong vitality.

Nutritional value of snails

[Nutrients]

Moisture 82.8g, protein 9.9g, fat 1.4g, carbohydrate 4.4g, heat 73.0kcal, crude fiber 0mg, ash 0mg, phosphorus 0mg, iron 0mg, vitamin A0 international unit, thiamine 0mg, riboflavin 0mg, nicotinic acid 0mg and ascorbic acid 0mg.

[Nutritional analysis]

Snail meat is tender and delicious, rich in nutrition, high in protein and low in fat. It also contains a variety of amino acids and beneficial trace elements, and the content of protein is even higher than that of eggs. For example, in100g of dried snail meat, protein can reach 60.04g! Therefore, snail meat is regarded as a kind of high-grade delicious food for strengthening the body. Snail meat also has the medicinal functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling and regulating furuncle, and can be used to treat red and white dysentery, nocturia, asthma, furuncle and carbuncle. In some areas of our country, snail meat has a long history as a good tonic, and it is also recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica.

Medicinal value of snails

There is a record in Compendium of Materia Medica that snails are used to treat diseases. Modern Chinese medicine also recognizes that snails have the functions of clearing away heat and toxic materials, reducing swelling, treating and quenching thirst. It can be used for adjuvant treatment of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, tracheitis, prostatitis, malignant ulcer and cancer. Efficacy; Treatment of swelling and pain, anal contraction, diuresis, application and indications: treatment of swelling and toxin; Start treating sores; Treat diseases; Treat toothache; Recently, higher nervous activity and neurophysiology of Russian Academy of Sciences are trying to treat Parkinson's disease with the nerve tissue of mollusks such as snails. 、

Snail, shark's fin, scallop and abalone are four famous dishes in the world, which contain more than 20 kinds of amino acids, 10 trace elements and are rich in snail enzyme and SOD. The content of protein is higher than that of turtle, pork, beef and egg by 1,/kloc-0, 3 and 6 percentage points respectively, while the fat content is only turtle, beef and egg. The selenium content per gram of snail meat is 0.45 micrograms, which is 4.5 times that of tea. From the perspective of market capacity, snail food conforms to the new trend of naturalization, game, nutrition and health care, and has a broad market at home and abroad. At present, the annual demand for snail products in the international market is about 400,000 tons, and the United States alone needs to import 3 billion dollars of snails every year. White jade snail is a new breed cultivated in batches in China. It is tender, white and big, and it will be more competitive in the international market. In recent years, new products such as health food series, biochemical drugs series, compound nutritious drinks series, cosmetics series, canned game series and frozen meat series have been introduced. It has been successfully developed in China, and several snail drugs for treating tracheitis, prostatitis and other diseases are about to be mass-produced. Snail secretion can also be used to refine and process natural nutritional cream. Snail is a kind of terrestrial mollusk, which has high edible, medicinal and health care values. Its edible and medicinal history has been more than 2000 years. In foreign countries, snail is one of the seven world game, ranking first among the four famous international dishes (snail, abalone, scallop and shark's fin). In France, it has the reputation of "French cuisine". In Europe and America, there are almost no snails to celebrate Christmas. In recent years, snail eating fever has risen quietly in China's coastal open cities, and snails on the market will be out of stock every holiday. Comrade Deng Xiaoping tasted snail food before his death. He praised: "Snail food fills a gap in China and should be well developed."

Snails enjoy the reputation of "soft gold" in the world. Its meat is tender, delicious and nutritious. According to the determination, every 500g of snail meat contains 90g of protein and various nutrients needed by human body, such as amino acids, vitamins, calcium, iron, copper and phosphorus. It is a food with high protein and low fat. Snails are cold and salty. It has the effects of clearing away heat, relieving swelling, detoxicating, promoting diuresis, relieving asthma and softening hard mass. It has a certain curative effect on diabetes, cough, pharyngitis, mumps, scrofula, sore pain, hemorrhoids, centipede bites and other diseases, and is praised as a delicious food and a good health care product by consumers.