Hello Hi Jing,

 I have never tried eating slugs.  Too much slime for me.  However they have
a potential risk for causing  infection with the rat lung worm
[Angiostrongylus cantonensis].  The name suggests this may be present in
China.  Cases that I have read about were from Thailand in a raw slug dish
called "koi-hoi" and in Hawaii, USA from lettuce containing tiny live slugs
and from Australia from a man who ate two slugs on a  dare and ended up
hospitalized for a month.  So the public health message is "wash your
lettuce" and "don't eat raw slugs, cook them!"  The reference I have is from
the New York Times titled "Australia: Man's Serious Illness Shows the Danger
of Daring to Eat a Garden-Variety Slug." {
http:www.nytimes.com/2011/10/18/health/18global.html?_1&ref=todayspaper}  I
hope that's of use to you.

Bert Bartleson Olympia, WA, USA

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Hi

As we know, Slugs are closely ralated to snails, snails are edible, are
slugs edible for human being ?

Dose anyone have experience of eating slugs ?

Thanks

He Jing

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