Would you ever eat a jellyfish?

Answer 1

I did.

Answer 2

Jellyfish, common name for any of the invertebrate animals making up two classes of the cnidarian phylum. About 2700 hydrozoan and 200 scyphozoan species are known. The term jellyfish applies more specifically to the free-swimming, gelatinous organism called the medusa, the form usually taken during the sexual stage of these animals, this generation alternating with a bottom-dwelling polyp stage in which reproduction is asexual. In one class the medusae tend to be small and the polyps well developed, whereas in the other class the medusae predominate. Both classes are marine, except for a few hydrozoans, such as Hydra, that live in fresh water.


Life Cycle of a Jellyfish






Life Cycle of a Jellyfish
In the reproductive life cycle of a typical jellyfish, males release sperm and females release eggs into the water. When an egg and sperm fuse to form a fertilized egg during sexual reproduction, a larva develops that attaches to a rock or other object and develops into a polyp. In a type of asexual reproduction, the polyp transforms into a colony of polyps that resembles a stack of saucers. Each saucer in the stack detaches itself from the colony as a new medusa, and the reproductive cycle repeats.
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Jellyfish have little nutritional value. Their stings can be painful, and a few tropical forms can be deadly to humans.

Answer 3

Jellyfish are regularly eaten in China, but not the entire animal, only the skin. It is cooked into various soups. To me, it is rather tasteless. It is regularly available at almost all markets, but people of South China eat many things that people of North China do not eat. Here in Guang Dong Province, we regularly eat sea worms, snakes, dogs, cats, badgers, and various insects. Many of the dietary habits came from a great famine from 1969 to 1971 and more than 20,000,000 people died of hunger. You eat anything to survive. America and many countries have been lucky not to go through famines...but during World War II, British soldiers in Japanese POW camps were happy to eat rats. Now, however, China has grown in agriculture but some people enjoy the exotic foods. I am an American and my Chinese friends often treat me to foods that you would find very strange. I was an internee at a Japanese POW camp in Hong Kong during the war..I was 5 years old, and between beatings, torture, beheadings, etc...Hunger was the worst. I can and will be happy to eat jellyfish.

Answer 4

there is a special yellow jellyfish that can be eaten if u cook it with CH3COOH, and some spices

Answer 5

im not so sure its possible to eat one... and i wouldnt do it bcuz i read that there is enough venom in a box jellyfish to kill 50 ppl

Answer 6

Only if I wanted to get stung in my stomach and die.....other than that I dont think I would...

Answer 7

if you can give me enough money.....and it was cooked......