Soup turtle

Turtles, tortoises or terrapin (for American freshwater turtles) are reptiles with a shell used as a house . The logger head and green sea turtles are caught commercially for their meat. In Germany turtle is mostly eaten in soup or stew. The meat of the so-called soup turtle (Chelonia mydas) is faintly red to bright red, and is marketed canned. An imitation or mock turtle soup is prepared from edible parts of heads of calves and has no relation to turtles except for the name. 

Polymeric procyanidin extraction from black beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L. cv. Black Turtle Soup) and purification was a... 

It is worth noting that a turtle gives not only tortoiseshell scutes, but also leather om its flippers, neck and tail, as well as meat, eggs and calipee - the cartilage used as the basic ingredient for turtle soup. 

Reptiles with bodies encased in a bony shell. Both land turtles and water turtles are eaten, but it is the water turtle that is made into the famous turtle soup. The English hold turtle soup in high esteem it is often served at their great diplomatic dinners and ceremonial repasts. 

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