I opened a can of smoked mussels today, and I noticed something I did
not notice before. They are black as usual, but they have some green
on them. The green covers 10% of the surface, and is all at one spot.
Is this normal?

On Mar 21, 3:34 pm, "
> wrote:
> I opened a can of smoked mussels today, and I noticed something I did
> not notice before. They are black as usual, but they have some green
> on them. The green covers 10% of the surface, and is all at one spot.
> Is this normal?

Not black, but brown. Sorry.

In article . com>,
says...
> I opened a can of smoked mussels today, and I noticed something I did
> not notice before. They are black as usual, but they have some green
> on them. The green covers 10% of the surface, and is all at one spot.
> Is this normal?
>
>

Yes, the mussels imported from New Zealand are called green lipped
mussels because they are naturally green in parts. Looks weird, to be
sure, but perfectly OK.

--
Peter Aitken

> wrote in message
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>I opened a can of smoked mussels today, and I noticed something I did
> not notice before. They are black as usual, but they have some green
> on them. The green covers 10% of the surface, and is all at one spot.
> Is this normal?


Perfectly fine. I eat canned smoked mussels pretty regularly, almost all
have green parts.

In article >,
Peter A > wrote:

> In article . com>,
> says...
> > I opened a can of smoked mussels today, and I noticed something I did
> > not notice before. They are black as usual, but they have some green
> > on them. The green covers 10% of the surface, and is all at one spot.
> > Is this normal?
> >
> >
>
> Yes, the mussels imported from New Zealand are called green lipped
> mussels because they are naturally green in parts. Looks weird, to be
> sure, but perfectly OK.

Um, I'm pretty sure the "green lips" refers to the color of the shell,
not the tasty soft stuff inside; it's sort of salmon-colored.

Isaac

On Mar 21, 4:09 pm, "Peter" > wrote:
> > wrote in message
>
> ups.com...
>
> >I opened a can of smoked mussels today, and I noticed something I did
> > not notice before. They are black as usual, but they have some green
> > on them. The green covers 10% of the surface, and is all at one spot.
> > Is this normal?
>
> Perfectly fine. I eat canned smoked mussels pretty regularly, almost all
> have green parts.

Thanks all for your replies.

On Mar 23, 4:45?pm, Steve Wertz > wrote:
> On 21 Mar 2007 12:34:50 -0700, wrote:
>
> > I opened a can of smoked mussels today, and I noticed something I did
> > not notice before. They are black as usual, but they have some green
> > on them. The green covers 10% of the surface, and is all at one spot.
> > Is this normal?
>
> The green comes from the green-blue algae they eat, and is often
> left in their stomachs when you disect them.
>
> -sw

Sal****er mussels don't browse for food, they attach... to rocks,
pilings, anything, even each other... and filter plankton as it passes
by... mussels do not move about. So if a cloud of phosphorescent
algea passes that's what they will consume. But it's very unlikely
that the mussels that are canned will contain any of what they've
eaten as the canner will make them go through the purging process.
The green is probably analogous to the tomalley (liver) in lobster.
And some mussels are just naturally green.

Fresh water mussels live in bottom mud and do move about some,
although not much, they have a foot somewhat like clams.

http://www.biotopics.co.uk/pot/odds/filter.html