Most land snails eat plants and other vegetation.

Snails also eat algae and decaying matter and are an important part of the food web. 

A garden snail has thousands of tiny teeth.

These thousands of tiny teeth are located on a ribbon like tongue and work like a file and rip the food to bits. 

Snails can gnaw through limestone.They eat the little bits of chalk in the rock which they need for their shells.

Some varieties of snails can destroy whole orchards and gardens when there are large groups of them.

Some snails are carnivores which means they eat flesh. 

Carniverous snails have a tongue that can bore holes into the shells of other snails so they can reach the soft flesh inside.