The mushroom must be cooked before eating, otherwise it is easy to cause poisoning.
Because the fresh enoki mushrooms contain colchicine, after human consumption, it is easy to oxidize and produce toxic dicolchicine, which has a strong stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal mucosa and respiratory mucosa. Generally, within 30 minutes to 4 hours of consumption, symptoms such as dry throat, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, etc.; after a large number of consumption, it may also cause fever, water-electrolyte balance disorders, blood in the stool, blood in the urine and other serious symptoms.
Colchicine is soluble in water, can be destroyed after sufficient heating, so, before eating fresh enoki mushrooms, should be soaked in cold water for 2 hours; cooking to enoki mushrooms to be boiled soft boiled, so that the colchicine heat decomposition; cold, in addition to soaking in cold water, but also blanch with boiling water, so that it is cooked through. In addition, the market sale of dried enoki mushrooms or canned enoki mushrooms, in which the colchicine has been destroyed, can be safely eaten.