Saturday, May 5, 2012

Aww, Shucks!

Oyster Day
Oysters 
The ultimate food experience…
that’s what they say…
anyway! 
Ok, sounds like we need
 some weird facts
to get us going…
Aussie farmers grow
three species of oysters. 
 Oysters eat by filtering
nutrients and algae
from the water. 
Most oysters change
their sex
during their lifetime. 
A female releases between
 20 and 40 million eggs
and males release
hundreds of millions
of sperm when spawning! 


Hundreds of millions! 
Apparently,
these delicacies
are good for you, too! 


One mouthful of oyster
will give you
lots of vitamins
(C, D and all of the Bs!).
They are filled
with minerals, too. 
 Only four oysters a day
 and your daily
intake of calcium,
copper, magnesium,
iron, zinc, iodine,
manganese and
phosphorous is covered! 
Too easy…
Just one problem…


You have to
 eat the oysters! 
 Ok, I confess! 
 I don’t love oysters!!
Photos from here, here and here.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That just makes me want to vomit.... Not one of the better days that's for sure!