Secret Snail Farm & Tasting Experience

Our experience will include:
• Arrival to the farm and welcome by the producer
• Guided tour of the farm
• Practical workshop
• Snail picking experience
• Tasting of snails
• Lunch : drinks, appetizers, fried beans and snails "feijoada", dessert and coffee
Extras:
• Transportation leaving Lisbon - With request
You will be in one great farm, who creates and markets snails as well as "Helix Aspersa Máxima" fingerlings in an adapted complete biological cycle. All the production is carried out in an agricultural greenhouse with irrigation systems by nebulizers, in order to guarantee the ideal temperature and humidity.
The Snails
The Helix Aspersa is an air-breathing snail, which has a single lung. They have a brownish soft body, covered with slimy mucus and yellow or cream-colored shells with brown spiral stripes. The shell of this species has a height of about 0.9-1.3 inches, and a width of 0.9-1.5 inches and a lip appears at its edge when an individual is old. It is a small mollusk, with a shell that has a sphere shape and a slightly rough surface, with about 4 or 5 spirals.
Benefits
Snails are a great source of the valuable lectin, possesses anti-cancer properties and helps in boosting the immune system and fighting against cancerous cells. The snail slime is extremely rich in allantonin, collage and elastin, which is beneficial for the treatment of skin diseases and broken bones. The secretions also have a copper peptide, which is regarded as the only source of a substance manufactured for creating creams that are useful in minimizing scares and wounds.