Nutritional qualities of snails (Archachatina marginata) fed solely with fresh kola testa

Abstract

This experiment was set up to assess the potential of fresh kola testa in feeding the African giant land snail (Archachatina marginata) raised in a kola plantation. The nutritional qualities of the snail meat were then assessed after the trial. The feed intake, weight gain, shell breadth, aperture radius, shell length carcass values of the snails, the proximate analysis and the sensory evaluation of the snail meat were assessed for snails fed on four different diets.