name: Whelk

flavor_db_name_variants: whelk

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Whelk

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name_scientific: Buccinidae

description: Whelk is a common name that is applied to various kinds of sea snail, many of which have historically been used, or are still used, by humans for food. Although a number of whelks are relatively large and are in the family Buccinidae (the true whelks), the word whelk is also applied to some other marine gastropod mollusc species within several families of sea snails that are not very closely related.

itis_id: 73726

wikipedia_id: Whelk

picture_file_name: 511.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 100731

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:39:24.000Z

legacy_id: 538

food_group: Aquatic foods

food_subgroup: Mollusks

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:45.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:26.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 37796

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00500