出版社：Grupo de Pesquisa Metodologias em Ensino e Aprendizagem em Ciências
摘要：The giant African snail Achatina fulica was introduced in Brazil in the 80s, as human food, to replace the French escargot, without even a market study. With the failure, the animals were released into the environment without concern for the impact it would cause. It is a prolific species, laying 200 to 400 eggs in each posture, four to six times a year. The environmental impact that the species causes is to prey on plants, compete for space with other species and act as a vector of two worms that transmit diseases. With this information, the objective of this work was to elaborate a snail meal, characterizing the chemical composition to be used as a protein source in animal nutrition. The snail flour has little yield (7.42%), but high nutritional value. Microbiological analyzes of the snail meat meal indicate that the technological processes adopted in this work (water diet, slaughter, handling, packaging) seem to be viable to obtain meat meal in relation to sanitary quality. Based on these results, the meat of the Giant-African-Snail has potential as a raw material in the use of animal feed.
