Frog legs move when salt is sprinkled on them...freaky ! /blogentry/36488 joker17's Blog: Frog legs move when salt is sprinkled on them...freaky ! en-us Lottery Post RSS Generator Comment #2 /blogentry/36488#c44452 /blogentry/36488#c44452 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:09:32 GMT joker17 <br />Nothing to feel bad about, it's just muscles. It's not like the frog is aware...hee hee....

]]> joker17 Comment #1 /blogentry/36488#c44451 /blogentry/36488#c44451 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:45 GMT x1kosmic don't say it,    .......I still feel Bad

]]> x1kosmic Original Blog Entry: Frog legs move when salt is sprinkled on them...freaky ! /blogentry/36488 /blogentry/36488 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:57:20 GMT joker17

He has skinned the frog legs and they are ready to be cooked. When he salts them, the muscles start twitching. The obvious question: why does that happen?

Because these are fresh frog legs, the cells inside them are all still intact. The biochemical machinery still functions. There is still a source of energy for the muscles in the form of unused ATP molecules stored in the cells. All that the muscles need is something to activate them and they can still contract and relax (until they run out of ATP or something else shuts down the biochemical machinery).

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