The raw material of Fujian's special traditional snack, earthworm jelly, is actually the black earthworms on the shallow sea mudflats. The earth shoots jelly is usually made from this earthworm-like mollusks as raw materials, after boiling, freezing and other processing gelatinous food, because this animal grows in the shallow sea mudflats, the appearance of bamboo shoots, so named "earth shoots".

Fujian special traditional snacks soil bamboo shoots jelly production ingredients are actually

The soil bamboo shoots jelly originated in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, there are two main claims about its origin, one is the invention of Zheng Chenggong soil bamboo shoots jelly claim, the other is the invention of the soil bamboo shoots jelly Qi Jiguang claim, the soil bamboo shoots jelly the earliest written records are in the Qing Dynasty.

The black earthworms used to make earthworm jelly are known as the Kougou Ge Wrapped Star Worm, which grows mainly on the mudflats where salt and fresh water meet at the mouths of major rivers and oceans.

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