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Our bodies do need all of these things. But honest experts will tell you that the really enjoyable amount of ink in your food is too small to have any noticeable positive influence on your health. Squid ink is a condiment too. A few teaspoons will be enough to change the color and flavor of your dish.
To be more precise, the flavor of squid ink is close to the flavor of fresh sea fish with some umami hints. But you can fix that quite easily if the stain is fresh. Marky's Blog Food Stories. Although the extinct externally shelled cephalopods ammonoids have an extensive fossil record, their soft tissues are very poorly known and, like extinct and living nautiloids, they are largely presumed to not have possessed an ink sac. There is some inconclusive evidence that some ammonites may have possessed an ink sac, most recently tiny globules of possible ink remnants were described in Austrachyceras Doguzhaeva et al.
In fact the presence of an ink sac is a characteristic feature of this group. Ink is currently unknown from other extinct Coleoidea although this could be due to preservation bias or through secondary loss. Ink sacs have been found so well preserved in the fossil record that they were used in drawings as with one famous example from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
The practice of grinding these fossilised ink sacs in order to produce ink has become something of a tradition with more recent examples of fossils drawn in their own ink from and The earliest ink sacs appear in the fossil record in the Carboniferous period around million years ago in cephalopods such as Donovaniconus, Gordoniconus and Saundersites which show a mix of features from older and more modern groups and are placed in their own order, Donovaniconida Doguzhaeva Some of this early evidence is preserved as microscopic globules but whole ink sacs do occur and resemble the same shape as found in modern cephalopods Doguzhaeva et al.
Unfortunately, the physical and chemical changes to ink sacs as they decompose and fossilise normally means that the chemical signature of fossil ink sacs is not preserved, however, in one particular million year old cephalopod ink sac made the headlines well the science headlines as it seemed to have escaped much modification before fossilisation and consequently provided a unique window into what the ink was composed of Glass et al.
Amazingly, even within the limitations of the analytic techniques at the time, it was found to contain the same form of melanin as found in modern cephalopods.
One theory is that melanin, which is extremely efficient in dissipating UV radiation, was originally involved in protecting the eyes or skin of cephalopods from light damage Derby Perhaps the excretion of excess melanin led to the development of a specific production chamber to generate it and BINGO!
Unfortunately, this is one of those instances where the current fossil evidence and our tools and techniques for analysing them come up short. Irrespective of how the ink sac evolved cephalopods have possessed them for over million years. Bush, S. Ink utilization by mesopelagic squid. Marine Biology. Derby, C. Marine Drugs , 12, Doguzhaeva, L. Occurrence of Ink in Palaeozoic and Mesozoic coleoids Cephalopoda. Palaeontology , Vol. Evolutionary patterns of Carboniferous coleoid cephalopods based on their diversity and morphological plasticity.
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