I experimented eating raw green lipped mussels last Saturday and Monday. My verdict? Raw green mussels suck big time. I do not recommend eating raw green lipped mussels for myself nor any of my family members.
Digesting the raw mussels was very hard on me. I had an easier time with raw beef. The transit time to poop was long as well. And the worst part was I felt bad, sick, like wanting to throw up by Tuesday.
Of course this self experimenter was ready for this case with my dependable herbal colon cleanse Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea. So Tuesday night I drank 1/2 cup of the herbal colon cleanse. I waited in the evening for some much needed poop. Then in the morning more poop. Ahhhh…. now I feel great again!
No more mussels for me. Whether raw or cooked, it is all bad. What? You think the quality of your food gets better just because you cooked it? Does a rotten saba banana get better when you cook it? Does a rotten mango get better when you cook it? Big fat no! Rotten foods are masked by cooking to SEEM edible. Let’s take raw eggs.  When eggs are rotten you can boil them or fry them and they seem fine, but they were rotten in the first place. If you always ate your eggs raw, you would immediately be alerted to the rotten state and merely throw it away.
Back to Philippine green lipped mussels. Either they are polluted, or not beneficial in the first place. The great thing about my food experiments is I can isolate the animal food I eat. My base of clean food is fresh raw fruits. I have concluded that green lipped mussels are not my food, whether raw or cooked.