What to eat with snails

Snails contain protein and calcium, and if they are made into spicy snails, they taste great, so many friends like to eat snails very much. However, there are some reports saying that snails grow up in sewage, and if eaten, it will cause certain harm to the body. Therefore, many friends want to understand what snails eat and see if it is really an inedible food.

If you want to know what snails eat, you need to know their living environment. Generally, snails live in fresh water such as ponds and streams, and they prefer to hide at the bottom, so it is easy for them to carry some bacteria. If people eat them, they must be careful.

What do snails eat?

Field snails like to live in aquatic environments with bottom mud rich in humus, such as lakes with lush aquatic plants, ponds, fields or slow-flowing ditches. They often feed on microorganisms and humus in the soil, phytoplankton in the water, young aquatic plants, moss, etc. They also like to eat artificial feed, such as fruits and vegetables, vegetable leaves, rice bran, wheat bran, soybean meal (cakes) and various animal scraps. Field snails are cold-resistant but afraid of heat. The suitable temperature for their survival is 20℃ ~ 28℃. When the water temperature is lower than 10℃ or higher than 30℃, they will stop eating and burrow into the soil and grass to avoid the cold and heat. When the water temperature exceeds 40℃, the snails will be scalded to death.

In the dry season, it will completely retract its soft body into the shell to reduce water evaporation; in the cold winter, it will burrow into the soil, not eat or move, and hibernate. When the spring comes and the temperature rises to a level suitable for its activities, it will stretch its head and feet out of the shell and crawl. The most suitable growth temperature for it is 20~26 degrees, at which time it eats most vigorously and grows fastest. When the water temperature rises to 30 degrees, stop eating. It is not resistant to high temperatures, but is very cold-resistant. It will dig holes to hibernate in severe cold seasons.

Snails generally eat plant debris, decayed organic matter, and small animals that reproduce at the bottom of the water.

To sum up, this is an introduction to what to eat snails. No matter what the growth environment of snails is, as long as it is handled properly, it is indeed edible. It is especially suitable for patients with hemorrhoids, obesity, coronary heart disease and other diseases. It has a regulating effect on these diseases. However, it is a very cold thing, so it is not recommended that you eat it.