Pila ampullacea, together with Pila pesmei, are indigenous rice field snail species traditionally eaten in
Thailand that have been displaced by the
invasive golden apple snail, Pomacea canaliculata.[4]
In
Indonesia, it is famous as keong sawah or tutut (from
Sundanese: ᮒᮥᮒᮥᮒ᮪, romanized: Tutut) as traditional cuisine which is often boiled or grilled as
satay.
^Heavy Predation on Freshwater Bryozoans by the Golden Apple Snail, Pomacea canaliculata Lamarck, 1822 (Ampullariidae); The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 6(1): 31-36, May 2006