Grown horseshoe crabs are non-toxic, only the young horseshoe crabs are poisonous. Young horseshoe crabs, also known as ghost horseshoe crabs, are poisonous throughout the body, and general
cooking methods such as steaming, boiling, and even frying, deep-frying, baking and other heating methods can not destroy them.
Since there are many similarities between its poisonous behavior and puffer fish poisoning, it is generally believed that its poisonous principle may be
similar to puffer fish poisoning
.