Company
AGROFARMA”. Founded in 2001, and our head office and farm is based in Larissa – Greece.
After 16 years of successful activity in breeding and processing snails, we are able to offer an excellent quality of snails. Our snails are from the type Helix Aspresa Muller (Petit Gris). This specie of snails is delicious for consumption and with guaranteed taste. Over the years, we created new lines of production, and offered for sale the following products:
Our products are produces in special rooms, according the E.U. rules.
Heliciculture
Snails are a high value food product with growing demand.
In recent years it is increasingly valued culinary and nutritional value of the snail. Also, in many cases the snails have been used for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products but also for cosmetics.
Already from antiquity are evidence for the use of preparations based on snails. The natural stocks of edible snails have fallen because of their intensive collection and habitat degradation (deforestation,
intensification of agricultural cultivation, fires, etc.). This inevitably led to the establishment and strengthening of rearing snails in different countries of the world, such as Spain, Canada, the United States, Italy
and especially France.
The snail farming is a livestock industry with strong growth potential in the coming years.
Increased demand for snails in European Union countries creates the conditions for guaranteed sale of snails produced at very high prices.
All these data make clear the need for the creation of farms of snails that will help to overcome a number of problems related to the movement of snails to markets while protect from extinction the natural populations of snails.
Dealing with snail farming requires knowledge concerning the biological cycle and physiology of snails and the installation of the kennel is made with specific technical requirements
HELIX ASPERSA
The Helix Aspersa or Greek Cretan kochlios is the kind of great commercial interest in Greece and Europe.
The meat has several advantages because it contains few calories, low in fat and high in nutrients, minerals, essential amino acids and beneficial fatty acids.
A source of protein becomes the meat of snail after research done and published from time to time, which is one of the positive factors of the Mediterranean diet.
Nutritional value of snails
The meat of snail brings several advantages compared with other meats.
It presents both low in calories and fats and also high in nutrients, minerals, essential amino acids and beneficial fatty acids.
Recent investigations reveal the meat of the snails as one of the positive nutritional factors of the Mediterranean diet.
It should also be noted that fat snails are beneficial, because it provides the body with Omega 3 fatty acids, which are considered essential because humans can not synthesize and therefore should be taken with food. It is very beneficial for health, why are they inhibit atherosclerosis and thrombosis and have anti-inflammatory effects, preventative allergies, depression, and other diseases of the nervous system.
With regard to minerals (metals) the meat of snails is a good source of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and sodium.
Some researchers suggest eating snails as an alternative source of calcium and phosphorus, two very important ingredients for bone growth. Given that the fish consumed with bones are good source of calcium and phosphorus, but because of the substantial content of the meat of the snails in Omega 3 fatty acids could snails worthy to replace them, at least in areas where fish are not available.
They also form an important source of amino acids and calcium during periods of fasting which is not consumed meat and dairy products.
With regard to trace the meat of these species is a good source of selenium (27.4 mg/100mg), providing essentially the consumer 50% of the recommended daily amount needed to hire an adult woman (who is 50 mg / day) and 1 / 3 of a man. Selenium has powerful antioxidant properties protect against heart disease and cancer (especially prostate), also contributing to the functioning of the thyroid gland and the immune system.
Besides all the above reported, the flesh of snails is also an important dietary source of vitamins. Niacin is a water-soluble B vitamin with beneficial effects on the nervous and cardiovascular systems. It is remarkably stable and resistant to heat, cooking and storing food. The content of the meat to niacin is 1,4 mg/100g edible meat and corresponds to the consumption of 50 g of cheese and 150 g of yogurt, lentils or potatoes are good sources of this vitamin
The shell of Helix Aspersa has spherical shape with the large diameter of the shell ranges from 25 to 40 mm and the height from 25 to 35 mm.
Characteristic of the shell of snails is polychromismos and polymorphism (Cain 1981) .. O coloring of the base of the shell varies from pale yellow to dark brown.
Over the shells are dark longitudinal bands of various types (zig-zag stripes, dotted, piebald, etc.) and colors (Bookstein 1989). The color of zoning depends on environmental factors. Dark zoning occur mainly in snails that grow at low temperatures.
When the snails grow at temperatures above 250C color zoning is red (Odile Lecompte et al., 1998).
AGROFARMA”. Founded in 2001, and our head office and farm is based in Larissa – Greece.
After 16 years of successful activity in breeding and processing snails, we are able to offer an excellent quality of snails. Our snails are from the type Helix Aspresa Muller (Petit Gris). This specie of snails is delicious for consumption and with guaranteed taste. Over the years, we created new lines of production, and offered for sale the following products:
- Hibernated snails with expiration period of 6 months
- Canned snail meat ( without shell) in brine – 2 sizes
- Canned snails in Traditional mediterranean sauce
- Snail Caviar
- Snail slime for cosmetic companies (From next year)
Our products are produces in special rooms, according the E.U. rules.
Heliciculture
Snails are a high value food product with growing demand.
In recent years it is increasingly valued culinary and nutritional value of the snail. Also, in many cases the snails have been used for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products but also for cosmetics.
Already from antiquity are evidence for the use of preparations based on snails. The natural stocks of edible snails have fallen because of their intensive collection and habitat degradation (deforestation,
intensification of agricultural cultivation, fires, etc.). This inevitably led to the establishment and strengthening of rearing snails in different countries of the world, such as Spain, Canada, the United States, Italy
and especially France.
The snail farming is a livestock industry with strong growth potential in the coming years.
Increased demand for snails in European Union countries creates the conditions for guaranteed sale of snails produced at very high prices.
All these data make clear the need for the creation of farms of snails that will help to overcome a number of problems related to the movement of snails to markets while protect from extinction the natural populations of snails.
Dealing with snail farming requires knowledge concerning the biological cycle and physiology of snails and the installation of the kennel is made with specific technical requirements
HELIX ASPERSA
The Helix Aspersa or Greek Cretan kochlios is the kind of great commercial interest in Greece and Europe.
The meat has several advantages because it contains few calories, low in fat and high in nutrients, minerals, essential amino acids and beneficial fatty acids.
A source of protein becomes the meat of snail after research done and published from time to time, which is one of the positive factors of the Mediterranean diet.
Nutritional value of snails
The meat of snail brings several advantages compared with other meats.
It presents both low in calories and fats and also high in nutrients, minerals, essential amino acids and beneficial fatty acids.
Recent investigations reveal the meat of the snails as one of the positive nutritional factors of the Mediterranean diet.
It should also be noted that fat snails are beneficial, because it provides the body with Omega 3 fatty acids, which are considered essential because humans can not synthesize and therefore should be taken with food. It is very beneficial for health, why are they inhibit atherosclerosis and thrombosis and have anti-inflammatory effects, preventative allergies, depression, and other diseases of the nervous system.
With regard to minerals (metals) the meat of snails is a good source of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and sodium.
Some researchers suggest eating snails as an alternative source of calcium and phosphorus, two very important ingredients for bone growth. Given that the fish consumed with bones are good source of calcium and phosphorus, but because of the substantial content of the meat of the snails in Omega 3 fatty acids could snails worthy to replace them, at least in areas where fish are not available.
They also form an important source of amino acids and calcium during periods of fasting which is not consumed meat and dairy products.
With regard to trace the meat of these species is a good source of selenium (27.4 mg/100mg), providing essentially the consumer 50% of the recommended daily amount needed to hire an adult woman (who is 50 mg / day) and 1 / 3 of a man. Selenium has powerful antioxidant properties protect against heart disease and cancer (especially prostate), also contributing to the functioning of the thyroid gland and the immune system.
Besides all the above reported, the flesh of snails is also an important dietary source of vitamins. Niacin is a water-soluble B vitamin with beneficial effects on the nervous and cardiovascular systems. It is remarkably stable and resistant to heat, cooking and storing food. The content of the meat to niacin is 1,4 mg/100g edible meat and corresponds to the consumption of 50 g of cheese and 150 g of yogurt, lentils or potatoes are good sources of this vitamin
The shell of Helix Aspersa has spherical shape with the large diameter of the shell ranges from 25 to 40 mm and the height from 25 to 35 mm.
Characteristic of the shell of snails is polychromismos and polymorphism (Cain 1981) .. O coloring of the base of the shell varies from pale yellow to dark brown.
Over the shells are dark longitudinal bands of various types (zig-zag stripes, dotted, piebald, etc.) and colors (Bookstein 1989). The color of zoning depends on environmental factors. Dark zoning occur mainly in snails that grow at low temperatures.
When the snails grow at temperatures above 250C color zoning is red (Odile Lecompte et al., 1998).