Mushrooms can be eaten with tofu, various meats and vegetables, such as stewed tofu with mushrooms, fried pork with mushrooms, celery with mushrooms, tofu soup with mushrooms, stewed chicken with mushrooms, vegetable soup with mushrooms, carrot and lentil soup with mushrooms, rapeseed with mushrooms and steamed chicken with black fungus. Mushrooms can also be cooked with porridge, such as mushroom lean meat porridge, mushroom chicken vegetable corn porridge, mushroom corn porridge, mushroom corn porridge.

Efficacy and function of Lentinus edodes

1. Improve the immune function of the body

Lentinan can improve the phagocytic function of peritoneal macrophages in mice, promote the production of T lymphocytes, and improve the killing activity of T lymphocytes.

prevent premature senility

The water extract of Lentinus edodes has a scavenging effect on hydrogen peroxide, and has a certain scavenging effect on hydrogen peroxide in vivo.

Step 3 fight cancer

Lentinus edodes contains another compound, Lentinus edodes purine (also known as erythropurine), which can lower the level of cholesterol. The antioxidant content of shiitake mushroom is 12 times that of malt and 4 times that of chicken liver. Compared with Tricholoma matsutake and Grifola frondosa (also known as Pleurotus eryngii, commonly known as Pleurotus ostreatus and Lentinus edodes), it is more effective in lowering blood pressure and resisting cancer.

4. Reduce blood pressure, blood lipid and cholesterol.

Lentinus edodes contains purine, choline, tyrosine, oxidase and some nucleic acid substances, which can reduce blood pressure, cholesterol and blood lipids and prevent diseases such as arteriosclerosis and cirrhosis.

treat a disease

Lentinus edodes can also treat diabetes, tuberculosis, infectious hepatitis and neuritis, and can also be used for dyspepsia and constipation.

Nutritional value of Lentinus edodes

1. Lentinus edodes is rich in provitamin D, but little in vitamin C, lacking provitamin A and provitamin A. ..

2. Mushroom protein contains 18 amino acids. Among the eight kinds of amino acids necessary for human body, Lentinus edodes accounts for 7 kinds, and most of them are L-type amino acids, which have high activity and are easily absorbed by human body, and the digestibility is as high as 80%.

3. Lentinus edodes contains a lot of glutamic acid, auricularia acid, fungous acid and goose acid, which are rare in ordinary food, so it tastes particularly delicious.

Storage of Lentinus edodes

Fresh shiitake mushrooms can be packaged with breathable film and put in refrigerator for about a week, or frozen directly. Dried mushrooms should be stored in sealed cans, and it is best to take them out and dry them once a month, which can be stored for more than half a year; It can also be directly refrigerated or frozen to avoid corruption or moth-eaten.

Edible method of shiitake mushrooms

1. Cooked mushrooms should be refrigerated in the refrigerator to avoid nutrient loss.

2. Wash the mushroom surface with cold water. Mushrooms with stalks can be taken out from the roots and then soaked in a warm water basin with their gills facing down. Mushrooms become soft. After gills are opened, gently stir them in one direction with your hands, so that the sediment slowly sinks to the bottom of the basin, or gently pat them with chopsticks, and the sediment will fall into the water.

3. Don't throw away the water for soaking mushrooms, many nutrients are dissolved in water; As long as the dried mushrooms are cleaned before soaking, the soaked water can be completely reused.

4. If the mushrooms are clean, rinse them with clear water, so as to keep the fresh flavor of the mushrooms.

5. Try to avoid soaking or adding sugar in very hot water, so that mushrooms can be soaked as soon as possible, which will make a lot of water-soluble components, such as precious polysaccharides and excellent amino acids, dissolve in water and destroy the nutrition of mushrooms.