what is oysters?

Answer 1

A deform marine shell with a small peace of white transparent being inside, with a spectacular taste when you eat it, still alive, with some lemon drops...

There are small and big ones.

Answer 2

Oysters breathe much like fish, using both gills and mantle. The mantle is lined with many small, thin-walled blood vessels which extract oxygen from the water and expel carbon dioxide. A small, three-chambered heart, lying under the abductor muscle, pumps colorless blood, with its supply of oxygen, to all parts of the body. At the same time a pair of kidneys located on the underside of the muscle purify the blood of any waste products it has collected.
There is no way of telling male oysters from females by examining their shells. While oysters have separate sexes, they may change sex one or more times during their life span. The gonads, organs responsible for producing both eggs and sperm, surround the digestive organs and are made up of sex cells, branching tubules and connective tissue.
Oysters are not only delicious, but they're also one of the most nutritionally well balanced of foods, containing protein, carbohydrates and lipids. The National Heart and Lung Institute suggest oysters as an ideal food for inclusion in low-cholesterol diets. Oysters are an excellent source of vitamins A, B1(thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (niacin), C ( ascorbic acid) and D (calciferol). Four or five medium size oysters supply the recommended daily allowance of iron, copper, iodine, magnesium, calcium, zinc, manganese and phosphorus.
Because raw foods including oysters may carry bacteria, persons with chronic liver disease, impaired immune systems or cancer should avoid eating raw oysters.
Folklore says that oysters should be eaten only in months with "r's" in them—September, October, etc. At Maestro S.V.P. we have been trying to educate people that oysters can be eaten 12 months a year. The notion that oysters should not be eaten in "r"-less months—that is, months that occur during warm weather—may have started in the days when oysters where shipped without adequate refrigeration and could spoil. But today all that has changed and we can enjoy oysters twelve months a year.
An oyster produces a pearl when foreign material becomes trapped inside the shell. The oyster responds to the irritation by producing nacre, a combination of calcium and protein. The nacre coats the foreign material and over time produces a pearl.
It is a species of crab (Pinnotheres ostreum) that has evolved to live harmoniously inside an oyster's shell. These dime-sized crabs, much sought after by gourmands, are not abundant.

Answer 3

Oysters are the living mollusks in the ocean.
Pearls are obtained from these oysters.
Mollusks are the shelled creatures of ocean.
These shelled oysters have a soft body embedded between calcanious shells .The shells are strong enough to protect the soft body .whenever these creatures open up if some small particle enters inside then it stars hurting them so they enclose the particle with shiny secretion,and this forms the pearl inside them.

Answer 4

oysters are a shell fish. You usually buy them canned and soaking in oils. They are very greasy and I like them.. but many don't. They have a smell and taste. The best way to eat them is on a Ritz cracker with then the oyster then a slice of chedder cheese. The cracker helps to aborb the oils and the cheese gives it a better flavor... man, now I want oyseters

Answer 5

The name oyster is used for a number of different groups of mollusks which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water. The shell, usually highly calcified, surrounds a soft body. Gills filter plankton from the water, and strong adductor muscles are used to hold the shell closed. Some of these groups are highly prized as food, both raw and cooked.

Oysters can be eaten raw, smoked, boiled, baked, fried, roasted, stewed, canned, pickled, steamed, broiled (grilled) or used in a variety of drinks

Answer 6

Oysters are shell fish served as a appetizers means first course of the meal and the service is very authentic way.They are very hot in nature and to be eaten raw. along with lemon juice on a crushed ice bed.

Answer 7

Oysters is a shell fish, almost resembling a clam, eaten basicly the same way. Very delish

Answer 8

OYSTERS- A sea Creature
used-
(A) PEARL FARMING
(B) EATING.

Answer 9

When you get a bad cold and all that snot you cough up. that is an oyster and an idea of how they taste!!

Answer 10

oysters are molluscs found in the sea which produce the beautiful pearls which adore many jewels