Back in the day, we used to debate among ourselves about whether or not to eat lobster tomalley, the green stuff you see if you’re consuming a whole lobster.
According to an article in Yahoo!News, the USDA has recommended for some time against consuming the tomalley, and now the Maine Center for Disease Control also is advising consumers not to eat lobster tomalley.
Tomalley works like a liver, filtering contaminants, and the high levels of toxic algae along the Maine coast are responsible for the most recent advisory.
It’s okay to eat lobster meat, though.