I do try to bring you the most burning questions here on this blog, particularly as I do penance for a very late book and post about depression buster foods each and every day until the book is available to you.
Frederick made a snail out of Play-Doh the other day and it does beg the question: is snail a depression buster? Is a Play-Doh snail a depression buster?
I looked up Play-Doh in the USDA nutrient database and found no nutrient profile whatsoever. I looked up “clay” as well. My thinking was that Play-Doh may very well be clay and some people do eat clay (of course, when those people eat clay it is in response to a deficiency state and not seen as a particularly healthy sign). In any case, people eat clay and yet, “clay” did not make the nutrient database either. The status of the Play-Doh snail may remain a mystery.
However, should you decide to eat an actual snail (in fact a pile of them totaling about 3.5 ounces), those snails would be a pretty good source of iron at 3.5 mg and a very good source of magnesium at 250 mg. You cannot get that much of iron out of a steak or that much magnesium out of a chocolate bar, so snails may very well be our answer.
