Incredible Live Sea Urchin

Live Sea Urchin - at the very first time I saw this really alive spiny and globular animal I was inexpressibly astonished. I believe many people would not dare to eat it when they see its shell. I have seem and eaten lots of sea urchins meets before, but I had never imagined where the meat came from, and what the real animal look like. I love to eat sea urchin. It tastes so creamy and sweet. Every time I go to a Japanese Restaurant, this is always a must course for me. After seeing the shell of the sea urchin, it increased my curiosity about this globular animal. 

Sea urchin is classified as Echinoidea of the echinoderm phylum. The size of it is normally range from 6 to 12 centimeters. What we eat is "roe" of the sea urchin, not the organ. Since it is so small, there is not much meets to eat in one sea urchin. 

The shell of the sea urchin has long and sharp spines around its body to protect them from predators. 

but many studies show that even though these spines would hurt people when they penetrate human 

skin, they are not dangerous. Typically, its spin length range from 1 to 3 centimeters, and 1 to 2 millimeters thick.

The mouth lies in the center of the oral surface. They eat mostly algae, seaweed, and tiny organisms to survive. 

The most popular way to eat sea urchin is eat it as raw, but some cuisine also make dishes with cooked sea urchin with other ingredients together. Some studies show that the sea urchin roe has 126 calories per 100 edible grams.