Frog caviar: a delicacy, medicine and coral

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:48

Delicacies are different, depending on the accepted conventions of a particular state or people. Moreover, frog caviar in some countries is considered the same festive yummy as red and black caviar of sturgeon and salmon fish in Russia.

Is it worth it?

Today, you can find all sorts of delicacies on the food market, some of which people knew only by hearsay a few decades ago. And today, if you want, you can serve any dish to the table, frog caviar will not be an exception. Delicacies are all expensive. This is due to their low availability. So, one frog lays only about 2 grams of caviar. It is easy to calculate how many amphibian caviar you need to collect to make a 100-gram jar. Very often, poachers get frog eggs, destroying the inhabitants of reservoirs with underwater explosions. The caviar obtained in such a barbaric way by unscrupulous suppliers is often passed off as sturgeon caviar, it is artificially tinted, giving a shade of red.

Frogs and corals

Sometimes you can find the phrase "euphilia frog spawn". If notgo into details, you might think that euphylia is the scientific name for amphibian caviar. But in fact, this beautiful word refers to a variety of coral, and frog caviar in this name has only the meaning of visual similarity. Corals, resembling in appearance the future offspring of frogs, live in warm tropical and equatorial ocean waters. By the way, corals are not plants, as some people think, but living beings. Several varieties of polyps have a beautiful name - euphylia mallet, torch, paraanchor and branched - "frog spawn". A distinctive feature of the coral, which resembles the offspring of amphibians in its appearance, is that it fluoresces in the dark. A beautiful living creature is another amazing mystery of our planet.

How is the medicine?

In some countries, frog caviar has long been of particular importance as a magical and medicinal remedy. And to this day, traditional healers collect it in the spring, line it with a thin layer on the fabric, dry it, and then apply it in this form to erysipelas of the skin as an anti-inflammatory agent. This is perhaps the only disease in the treatment of which traditional medicine uses frog caviar. However, according to some scientists, frog caviar, the beneficial properties of which have not yet been sufficiently studied, can have a certain effect on the cells of the human body, comparable to the action of human stem cells. That is, it is assumed that, using the future offspring of amphibians,you can force human cells to rejuvenate, fighting aging and disease. These developments are likely to continue, although skeptics predict that all attempts to make a rejuvenating potion from frog roe will soon fail.

Well, how can you tell one from the other?

In principle, all the eggs of all living beings that get offspring in this way are somewhat similar - the shell, transparent or having some shade, reliably protects the nascent life. What does frog caviar look like? There are a lot of varieties of tailless amphibians, which are commonly called in one word - frogs. And, accordingly, the caviar of each type will be slightly different. But in general terms, frog caviar is a gelatin capsule that allows oxygen and carbon dioxide to pass through and swells in water. Inside it is an embryo that has a black or brown color. The capsule in water retains all the beneficial substances that allow the embryo to develop into a tadpole - a frog cub. Different amphibians lay their eggs in different ways: some on the leaves of plants, some bury their future offspring one egg at a time in moist soil, and some mother frogs carry a brood on their backs. In nature, it is very difficult to confuse the caviar of amphibians with the caviar of any other species of living creatures that raise offspring in this way. But on the shelves of shops very often frog caviar, tinted with dyes, s alted, suddenly becomes caviar of valuable fish species.

Frogs are amazing creatures, they are distributed all over the planet, but a person sometimes thinks little about how much use they bring. Nature has created a lot of amazing living creatures. And the task of man is to save all these natural treasures.