The clams can't be eaten without their tongues. Clams do not close the tongue that is dead, dead clams will breed a lot of bacteria, if you eat will appear nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea and other symptoms, harmful to the body.

Flowering clams:

Flowering clams are clams, because of the Cantonese language clams and clams with the same sound, clams are written by the people of flower armor. Clams are Hainan region called mango snail, is a mollusk, about 3 cm long, shell ovoid, light brown, purple edge. Living in the shallow seabed. The shell is longer and thinner, is long ovoid.

Clam meat, as well as shellfish mollusks, contains a serum cholesterol-lowering effect of the daiquiri 7 cholesterol and 24 methylidene cholesterol, which both inhibit the synthesis of cholesterol in the liver and accelerate the excretion of cholesterol unique role, so that the body's cholesterol decline. They are more effective than the commonly used cholesterol-lowering drug, glutathione.