Can snails in rice fields be eaten? Are there parasites?

When I was a child, I liked to go to food stalls with my parents, eat snacks and drink ice water. My favorite was delicious fried snails. But later, some people said that these fried snails are snails and have many parasites, so they can't be eaten. Is that really the case?

Pomacea canaliculata, also known as apple snail, originally lived in the Amazon River in South America. Later, people found that its meat tasted crisp and sweet, so they introduced it to China. As a result, this guy has extremely low requirements for water quality and is not picky about food. He eats rice, water chestnut and animal carcasses, and is particularly fertile. He laid 10000 eggs almost once, and occupied 65438+ in Guangdong and Guangxi in a short time.

Although snails are rampant everywhere, they are delicious food for many people. Its protein content is about 15.4%, and it is a highly nutritious food. After washing, put some ginger slices, stir-fry garlic seeds, add some oil and salt to taste, and swallow them. However, although this snail is delicious, it has many parasites. A snail can hide as many as 6000 parasites. There was a terrible incident in which 160 people were infected with Angiostrongylus cantonensis by eating snails. This is because the snail is not fully cooked, so everyone must wait until it is cooked.

However, in order to save costs, some vendors will also sell snails as snails. So how can we tell the difference? Generally speaking, the shell of Ampullaria gigantea is yellow, the meat of Ampullaria gigantea is yellow and white, and the shell and meat of Ampullaria gigantea are blue and brown. Seen from the tail, the tail of Ampullaria canaliculata is short and flat, and the tail of Ampullaria canaliculata is long and sharp. Judging from the screw cover, Ampullaria gigantea is flat and Ampullaria gigantea is round, so friends must remember the above differences and won't be fooled next time!

Stir-fry the snail for a little longer, otherwise I'm afraid there will be parasites in his stomach. If your temperature reaches, there is no problem. About 15 minutes of boiling water can kill parasites in snails. There are snails-like parasites in seafood. If disinfection is not thorough, it will easily lead to schistosomiasis and cause certain harm to human body.