13 Facts About Lobsters

Thursday Thirteen

• they have less calories and saturated fat than chicken or turkey
• they swim backwards
  
• they can regenerate legs, claws, and antennae
• their blood is clear and turns opaque white when cooked
• they shed their shells to grow (molt) 4-5 times per year until they have reached full size
• they can be right or left handed - depending on which side the crusher claw is on
• they are different colors - blue-green, yellow, white, orange and red
• they all turn red when cooked (except the white ones) because their pigment is masked except for the underlying red color
• The most plentiful and most popular size of lobster are ones 1 1/4 - 1 1/2 lb. each
• warming water will put a lobster to sleep
• steam escapes from the shell as the lobster cooks and makes a little screaming noise
• if you find a clump of little red balls in the lobster's tail, they are the female's immature eggs (called coral)
• of the 10,000 eggs that a female releases at once, less than 1% will survive