Mussel Facts
source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071018-mussels-stick.html
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Mussels can live for up to 50 years, although cultured ones are harvested at around 28 months.
You can tell the difference between wild and cultured mussels by looking for the dull bluish colour, white erosion marks and attached barnacles of the former. Cultured mussels have shiny blue-black shells.
The mussels arch enemy is the dog whelk, which bores a hole through its shell and sucks out the soft parts.
The mussels beard is known as the byssus. It is used by the mussel to attach itself to surfaces with the aid of a secreted adhesive cement.
You shouldnt be concerned if a batch of mussels is of different colours: pale white meat indicates a male mussel, and a warmer, more orangey colour, a female.
Mussels rely on fish to carry their eggs in their gills during part of their life cycle.
Mussels have been cultivated for almost 800 years in Europe, and have been used as a food source for more then 2,000 years.
The byssal threads are so adhesive they can even cling to Teflon; scientists are trying to develop a mussel-based adhesive for use in eye surgery.
In the late 1800s Higgins eye mussels were used as buttons.
You can tell the difference between wild and cultured mussels by looking for the dull bluish colour, white erosion marks and attached barnacles of the former. Cultured mussels have shiny blue-black shells.
The mussels arch enemy is the dog whelk, which bores a hole through its shell and sucks out the soft parts.
The mussels beard is known as the byssus. It is used by the mussel to attach itself to surfaces with the aid of a secreted adhesive cement.
You shouldnt be concerned if a batch of mussels is of different colours: pale white meat indicates a male mussel, and a warmer, more orangey colour, a female.
Mussels rely on fish to carry their eggs in their gills during part of their life cycle.
Mussels have been cultivated for almost 800 years in Europe, and have been used as a food source for more then 2,000 years.
The byssal threads are so adhesive they can even cling to Teflon; scientists are trying to develop a mussel-based adhesive for use in eye surgery.
In the late 1800s Higgins eye mussels were used as buttons.
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