All the meat inside the clams can be eaten, but the clams need to spit out the sediment inside during processing, clams belong to shellfish, it may have sediment residue both outside and inside the shell, and if it is not cleaned, it will affect the taste.

The black part of a clam is the clam's innards, and they can be eaten together if the sand is clean. Clam meat is black, is the internal organs of clams, also known as yellow, like crab yellow, very nutritious, but also contains a lot of cholesterol. But clams have small organs that accumulate, and that's the digestive system, and there's some undigested sediment in the stomach, and even though they've been sitting in oil and salt for a few days, there's still fine sand in some clams when they eat, along with fecal metabolites.

Expanded Information:

Clam meat is rich in nutrient value, and in every 100 grams of clam meat contains Protein 10 grams, 1.2 grams of fat, 2.5 grams of carbohydrates, as well as iodine, calcium, phosphorus, iron and other minerals and vitamins, while the clam shell contains calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, magnesium silicate, iodine, bromide salts. Modern medical research has found that there is a substance called clamsin in clams, which has the anti-cancer effect of inhibiting tumor growth.

Clam meat, as well as shellfish mollusks, contains a serum cholesterol-lowering effect of the dermatophyte 7-cholesterol and 24-methylene cholesterol, which both inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol in the liver and accelerate the excretion of cholesterol unique role, thus making the body's cholesterol down. They are more potent than the commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug glutathione.

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