How healthy is lobsters?

Lobster is often considered a luxury item on the menu, but perhaps it should be included in your diet more often.

Protein: You need adequate amounts of protein in your diet because it ensures that all your body, system function properly. Lobster is a good source of protein with about 20 g in each 3-oz. serving.

Vitamins: There are numerous vitamins present in just one 3-oz. serving of lobster meat. A serving of lobster supplies about 6 percent of the vitamin E you need in your daily diet. Vitamin E in your diet may help reduce your heart disease risk. Lobster is also a rich source of vitamin B-12, supplying 45 percent of the daily value in just one serving.

Minerals:There are also many different minerals in lobster that support your health. A 3-oz. serving of lobster supplies 6 percent of the daily value for calcium, as well as 2 percent of the iron your body requires. A serving of lobster also supplies 80 percent of the daily value for copper.

Disease Prevention: A diet rich in low-fat and nutrient-dense foods, like lobster, can decrease your risk of certain illnesses and diseases. According to "The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods," lobster may have some additional disease preventative benefits. A diet that includes lobster may reduce your risk of heart disease.

What is the best way to eat an lobster?

How to Eat the Lobster’s Legs

Grasping the lobster by its back, gently twist the legs so that they come away from the lobster at their base. You can then get little bits of meat and lobster juice out of the legs by breaking them at the joins and biting and sucking on their ends. You may also be able to remove strings of meat using your lobster fork.

How to Eat the Lobster’s Claws

As you did with the legs, twist the claws so that they come away from the lobster at their base. You’ll now have what looks like an “arm” with a claw at the end. Break off the arm from the claw at their point of connection.

Eat the Meat in the “Arm”

Use your lobster fork to remove the meat inside the arm. You may have to use the nutcracker to open up the shell further in order to get at the meat fully.

Eat the Meat in the Claw

The claw looks like a mitten, with a “thumb” opposing the rest of the claw. First, pull away the thumb from the claw with your fingers. You can usually pull the meat from the thumb by just spearing it and pulling it with your lobster fork.

To get at the meat in the part of the claw, use your nutcracker to crack and remove the tip of the claw. Now the claw will have holes at both ends—at its tip, and at the “wrist” where it met the “arm.” Insert a finger or your lobster fork into the hole at the tip of the claw and push the meat out the hole at the wrist.

Do Lobster Feel Pain?

Having experienced two rounds of shocks, the crabs learned to avoid the shelter where they received the shock. They were willing to give up their hideaway in order to avoid the source of their probable pain.... [the lobster's] nervous system isn't very complex, so it's feeling little to no pain. animals with simple nervous systems, like lobsters, snails and worms, do not have the ability to process emotional information and therefore do not experience suffering, say most researchers.