Snails are rich in vitamin B 1, which can prevent beriberi. Snails also have a calming effect. Eating snail meat often can nourish yin, improve eyesight, enhance muscle elasticity, make skin smooth and tender, and has many health care functions.
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Snails are widely distributed in freshwater lakes, reservoirs, paddy fields, ponds and ditches all over China. Because of its tender and delicious meat and rich nutrition, it has become one of the favorite aquatic products of people, especially southerners.
Snail is cold, pregnant women and people with deficiency of spleen and stomach should not eat it, and ordinary people should not eat it in large quantities at one time. When cooking, you can put spicy condiments such as ginger, onion and garlic to offset its fishy smell and coldness. In addition, when cooking porridge, you should cook it thoroughly with fire to prevent infection by germs and parasites.
Snails bought must be kept in clear water for two or three days, and some soybean oil is dropped in the basin, which is beneficial for snails to spit out the dirty things in their stomachs and eat them cleanly and healthily. Cut off the tail end of the snail shell tip, so that it is easy to sip the snail meat when eating, and it is also beneficial to let the taste penetrate.
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