A tragic end came to the life of 51-year-old food blogger Emma Amit in the Philippines, who decided to demonstrate the cooking process of a poisonous crab known as the devil crab in a video. This was reported by the Daily Mail.
Emma, along with friends, went to search for crabs and shellfish in the mangrove forest. After a successful catch, she cooked the seafood in coconut milk while filming the entire process. Once the cooking was finished, her friends went home, and Amit was left alone.
However, she soon felt unwell—she lost consciousness at home and began to experience convulsions, with her lips turning blue. She was urgently taken to intensive care, but unfortunately, she could not be saved. Doctors are monitoring the condition of her friends, who are currently not experiencing any health issues.
Police have begun an investigation into the circumstances of the blogger's death, examining the site of her culinary experiment and discovering the shells of devil crabs, whose meat is highly toxic.
Laddy Gemang, the head of the village where Amit lived, expressed his shock. He noted that the woman was an experienced fisherman and should have known about the toxicity of devil crabs, questioning, "Why did she eat it anyway?".
The devil crab (Zosimus aeneus) inhabits coral reefs and is easily recognized by its characteristic brown pattern on a light shell. Its meat and shell contain potent neurotoxins, such as tetrodotoxin and saxitoxin, which are not destroyed even by boiling. This species of crab is considered the most poisonous in the Philippines.
