most of time good it depends on how you cook it
A freshwater mussel is also called a unionid mussel or naiad.
Yes. It has a shell. Invertebrates have no backbone, vertebrates do. Invertebrates often have a hard external shell (like a mussel), or exoskeleton (like a crab), to protect them from predators.
Yes - Mussel's are edible. In fact many varieties, such as the Green Lipped Mussel are not only edible but an excellent source of vitamins and essential nutrients like Omega-3's. One Mussel Powder supplement that I am familiar with is called Neptone.
A bearded mussel is a mussel found off the coasts of Britain, Latin name Modiolus barbatus, also known as the horse mussel or the horse-bearded mussel.
Octopus, when cooked properly, has a luxurious and meaty texture somewhat akin to scallop, but with slightly more chew. The flavor is unique, but mild, and hard to describe, like, "What does a mussel, oyster or clam taste like?" but otherwise reminiscent of "the sea". For comparison's sake, the best you can sum it up with is that it does not taste like squid, though that is a reasonable comparison for baby octopus. A lot will vary depending on expertise of the cook, cooking method, and size of the octopus.
Octopus, when cooked properly, has a luxurious and meaty texture somewhat akin to scallop, but with slightly more chew. The flavor is unique, but mild, and hard to describe, like, "What does a mussel, oyster or clam taste like?" but otherwise reminiscent of "the sea". For comparison's sake, the best you can sum it up with is that it does not taste like squid, though that is a reasonable comparison for baby octopus. A lot will vary depending on expertise of the cook, cooking method, and size of the octopus.
A mother zebra mussel pushes out an egg that grows into a another zebra mussel.
Yes, mussel is high in cholesterol. In 3 oz of mussel there is 48 mg of cholesterol.
The mussel is a bivalve mollusk. When the tide rushes in, that mussel will clam up.
I have an 1834 Springfield mussel loader shot gun and would like to know the value of it, and am willing to sell it.
The homophones for "mussel" are "muscle" and "muzzle."
Duck mussel was created in 1758.