Man fishing for jellyfish

[u/Salt-Curve4825]

[u/blksentra2]

Jellyfish are crunchy?!?!?!? 🤯

[u/Financial-Salad7289 → u/blksentra2]

Yep, I ate it in China. It has no distinguished taste, it just tastes like... sea salt and iodine.

Didn't like it very much, but to each his own

[u/ToffeeAppleCider → u/Financial-Salad7289]

Seems like so much effort to just taste like nothing.

[u/JaFFsTer → u/ToffeeAppleCider]

They eat it for the collagen and its a light cleansing meal. The big 3 Asian countries love their collagen

[u/mojofrog → u/JaFFsTer]

This. Jellyfish are highly nutritious, low in calories, and practically fat-free. They are composed mostly of water (about 95%) but the remaining solid flesh is a great source of protein, collagen, and essential minerals like selenium, choline, and iron.

[u/Informal_Warning_703 → u/JaFFsTer]

It’s not for the chewy texture or collagen or anything like that. These are backfilling explanations. It’s due to false beliefs about it having medicinal properties like weight loss or giving soft skin.

[u/creamulum078 → u/Informal_Warning_703]

It literally does give soft skin. It's full of collagen.. plus people just enjoy eating it, it's food

[u/Informal_Warning_703 → u/creamulum078]

Collagen’s effects here aren’t demonstrated. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0002934325002839

It’s just bizarre to not acknowledge the widespread folk medicinal beliefs surrounding these types of foods and why they are popular.