The efficacy and role of hairy fungus
Nutritional value of hairy fungus
1. hairy fungus contains rich protein and dietary fiber.
2. Hairy fungus also contains carotene as well as potassium, calcium, iron, zinc and other minerals.
3. There are rich polysaccharides in the fluffy back of the ear of the hairy fungus.
The efficacy and role of the fungus
1. Chinese medicine believes that the fungus replenishes qi and blood, moistens the lungs, stops bleeding, has the efficacy of clearing the lungs and benefiting the qi, relieving pain and activating the blood, and can be used for the deficiency of qi and blood loss, twitching of the limbs, coughing in the lungs, hemoptysis, spitting out blood, epistaxis, leakage, hypertension, constipation and other symptoms.
2. The crude fiber content of fungus is relatively high, and these fibers have a good effect on the digestion, absorption and metabolism of many nutrients in the human body.
3. The villi of the back of the ear of the woolly fungus are rich in polysaccharides, which are one of the six medicinal mushrooms with the strongest anti-tumor activity (the others are Ganoderma lucidum, cloud cheese, Birch pleuropora, Tree Tongue, and Red Corky Mushroom).
Can you eat raw fungus
Fresh fungus contains a chemical called "porphyrin", which is toxic to humans, and can cause itching, redness, rashes and other bad symptoms if eaten in life. The dried fungus is the finished product of the sun exposure treatment, most of the "porphyrin" in the sun exposure process will be decomposed, and before eating, the dried fungus and soaked in water, which contains the remaining "porphyrin" will be dissolved in water, so the water hair dry fungus can be eaten raw, but fresh fungus is not allowed to eat, but the fresh fungus is not allowed to eat. But the fresh fungus can't be eaten raw.
How to choose the hairy fungus
1. With the eyes to see, to choose a little bigger, but to moderate, too big is not good, to choose the ear flap has a more stretch, the back of the slightly grayish-white best.
2. Hand to feel, usually hairy fungus water content requirements to remain below 11%, take a small amount of samples, pinch it with your hand, if you let go of the piece can be very good stretch, elasticity, indicating that the water content is less, and vice versa is too much.
3. You can use your mouth to taste, take a small piece in the mouth, pure fungus, pure taste without odor, there is a clear aroma of the best. The opposite is more for spoiled or adulterated products.
4. You can use water to soak a little, if the hairy fungus feel lighter, but after soaking in water swelling hair is very best.
What's better than black fungus
Compared to black fungus, black fungus is more nutritious. After testing, researchers found that black fungus has a higher content of polysaccharides and proteins than black fungus. The hairy fungus entity is large and thick, and does not taste as good as the black fungus, but has a crisp and distinctive texture.
Research has shown that the fungus has some similar medicinal value to the black fungus in terms of its nutritional composition, such as in cooling the blood and stopping bleeding, benefiting the qi and moistening the dryness of the body, all of which have significant effects. But their medicinal value is also different places, black fungus contains nutrients have lowered blood lipids, blood viscosity, can inhibit platelet coagulation, to prevent thrombosis, and coronary artery atherosclerosis, experts believe that often eat black fungus can play a daily dose of aspirin effect; and the hairy fungus on the reverse side of the villi are thick and long, some of them as long as 400 to 500 microns, which is 10 times the black fungus, which is villus! In the middle of a large number of polysaccharides, these polysaccharides have a very good anti-cancer role, the hairy fungus is also in the market favored.
Hair fungus and black fungus have their own merits, who is better than who the answer to this question will vary from person to person.
Precautions for eating fungus
1. Cooking fungus at high temperatures improves the solubility of dietary fiber and polysaccharides in fungus, which can be absorbed and utilized, so if you want to fully absorb the nutrients in fungus, you need to cook it.
2. The fungus is a cool food, eat two to three times a week, people with poor digestion should eat less.
3. Pregnant women should not eat more fungus.
4. The fungus should not be eaten with snails, because they are not conducive to digestion.
5. Hairy fungus and pheasant should not be eaten together, because pheasant has a small poison, and the two eaten together can easily induce bleeding hemorrhoids and other symptoms.
The edible treatment of fungus
The fungus is crispy and tasty, and can be eaten in many ways, the following is a description of the practice of several fungus:
1. Cold fungus
Materials: fungus, carrots, oil, salt, soy sauce and vinegar and other seasonings.
Practice:
(1) Wash and shred the carrots ready.
(2) Clean the hairy fungus, then soak it in water, wait until it is soaked, then fish out the hairy fungus and soak it in cold boiled water for 3 minutes, then clean it.
(3)Cut the hairy fungus into small even pieces.
(4) Put the chopped fungus into a pot, then add the side dish of shredded carrots as well.
(5) Add oil, salt, vinegar and other seasonings to your liking and mix well.
2. pine nuts and fungus
Materials: fungus, corn oil, oyster sauce, green onions, pine nuts, cold water.
Practice:
(1) Soak the fungus in water. After soaking, rinse with water, drain, and place on a plate for use.
(2)Heat a pan, pour in a moderate amount of corn oil, and when the oil is 60% hot, pour in the fungus, stir fry for 1 minute.
(3)Put the pine nuts into the pot, then pour in the appropriate amount of water, high heat to boil and then turn off into a small fire, cover the pot, simmer for 3 minutes.
(4) Pour in the appropriate amount of oyster sauce in the pot and stir well.
(5) Add the appropriate amount of scallions to the pot, and turn off the heat to start.
3. hairy fungus roasted tofu
Materials: 300 grams of tofu, 50 grams of hairy fungus, green onions, ginger, garlic, soybean paste, vegetable oil, cooking oil, sugar, starch, salt and so on.
Practice:
(1)Soak the fungus in water and clean it, and cut the tofu into small pieces of uniform thickness.
(2) Cut the green onion into julienne strips, slice the ginger, and slice the garlic.
(3) heat a pan, pour in the right amount of oil, to 8 into the heat off into the medium heat, under the tofu fried until both sides of the golden brown and removed from the standby.
(4) In the remaining oil in the pan, add the bean paste, stir-fry for 1 minute, then add the green onions, ginger and garlic and stir-fry to release the flavor.
(5) Add the fried tofu into the pan and stir-fry well.
(6) Pour a bowl of boiling water into the pot, add salt, sugar, oil and other seasonings.
(7) Put the cleaned fungus in it, and when the water boils, cover the pot with a lid and cook over low heat for 5 to 10 minutes.
(8)Reduce the juice over high heat, and finally thicken the sauce a little to get up.
Mao fungus has a high nutritional value, flavor is crisp and delicious, and the human body will also play a role in cancer prevention and anticancer, so we should be in our daily life often eat it. I hope that after reading this article you can have a better understanding of the fungus, so that the scientific and nutritional consumption of fungus.