Nutritional facts about 'trepang'

March 30, 1999
From: Leevey

Hi, I come from Indonesia, we love to eat sea slugs, especially in a chinese restaurant. Every chinese restaurant here has many sea slugs, usually we eat them with abalone and shitake mushroom.Indonesian called them tripang.

I would like to know if they are fattening? Do they contain a lot of cholesterol? Basically I would like to know about the nutrition facts.

Thank you very much.
Please e-mail me.

Leevey.

Hendra88@indo.net.id

Dear Leevey,
As you will see if you look at the information at the top of this page, and the other messages below yours, 'trepang', 'beche de mer', 'sea cucumbers' are all names for a group of animals which are often called 'sea slugs' but are unrelated to true slugs which are molluscs (snails, clams, squid etc.) Sea Cucumbers or Holothurians are echinoderms (starfish, sea urchins, brittle-stars etc).

I'm afraid I know nothing about their nutritional value, or how much cholesterol they contain. I suggest you get advice from your doctor.

Best wishes,
Bill Rudman.

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