How to preserve fresh monkey head mushroom: store in cool and ventilated place, refrigerate and store, make into dried product.

1, cool and ventilated storage

Monkey head mushrooms are a kind of decaying fungus living in the wet and cold and dark mountains, after purchasing, you can directly vendors in a cool and ventilated place, you can also save for a period of time without deterioration, but pay attention to avoid humidity.

2, refrigerator storage

The refrigerator cold layer of the temperature is relatively low, can inhibit bacterial reproduction, extend the preservation time of fresh monkey head mushrooms, but also to maintain its freshness, so the monkey head mushrooms placed in the refrigerator cold is also a good preservation method.

3, made of dried products preservation

One of the reasons that cause the monkey head mushrooms to rot and spoil is that the moisture in them is too high, so in order to prolong its preservation time, it can be placed in the sunlight or dried in the dryer and then preserved, which can be a long time without deterioration.

Introduction of Monkey Head Mushroom

Monkey Head Mushroom is a fungus of the family Odontococcaceae, genus Monkey Head Mushroom. Substrate medium, large or large, 3.5-10 centimeters in diameter, fleshy, head-shaped or inverted ovoid shape, like a monkey's head, so the name monkey head, the base of the insertion of a narrow, artificial cultivation of the monkey head mushroom base is often due to the long in the mouth of the bottle or plastic bag mouth and was shank-shaped. In addition to the base, the periphery is covered with spines. Mycelium spines 1-5 cm long, needle-shaped, 1-2 mm thick, spores born on the surface of mycelium spines, spherical, diameter micron × micron, containing oil droplets, spore pile white.

Monkeyhead mushroom is widely distributed in nature, mainly in broad-leaved forests or mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forests in the north temperate zone, such as Western Europe, North America, Japan, Russia and other places. In China, it is mainly distributed in the large and small Hinggan Mountains in the northeast, the Tianshan Mountains and Altay Mountains in the northwest, the Himalayas in the west and the forested areas of the Hengduan Mountains in the southwest, including the provincial-level autonomous regions of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Nei Menggu, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Xizang, Zhejiang, and Fujian.