The vegetarian food that is more delicious than meat is none other than mushrooms!

Matsutake

Mushroom is neither an animal nor a plant. It is a fungus that can produce large fruiting bodies, and the food we call "mushrooms" is the fruit of the fungus. Entity, it is just the reproductive organ of the fungus, which is why mushrooms can still grow where they were picked.

Chicken fir

Everyone may have some experience of the deliciousness of mushrooms, such as matsutake, chicken fir, truffle, bolete, green head mushroom, and Grifola frondosa that we are familiar with. And so on, it is all passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation.

The nutrition of this mushroom, which is neither a plant nor an animal, is between vegetarian food and meat. There are many essential elements for the human body that are not found in vegetarian food, but it does not have the high fat in meat. It is very Ideal health food. Nowadays, people pay attention to "one meat, one vegetable and one mushroom" when eating, which is enough to show the status of mushrooms in people's daily lives.

To talk about the nutritional consumption of mushrooms, we have to mention a kind of mushroom-straw mushroom.

Straw mushrooms, also known as orchid mushrooms, stalk mushrooms, and field mushrooms, are an important tropical and subtropical mushroom and the third largest cultivated edible fungus in the world because they often grow in moist and rotten straw. So named, it is mostly produced in Guangdong, Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Taiwan. Straw mushrooms are plump, thick-fleshed, short-stalked, smooth, and delicious in taste, and are deeply loved by consumers.

The earliest written records of the artificial cultivation of straw mushrooms appeared in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. Some information says that straw mushrooms are also called orchid mushrooms, which is actually a misinterpretation of "Nanhua mushrooms".

The "Guangdong General Chronicle" in 1822 recorded: "Southerners call fungi mushrooms, and Yuzhang and Lingnan also call them mushrooms. The ones produced in Nanhua Temple in Caoxi are called Nanhua mushrooms, which are also called mushrooms. "The taste is not inferior to that of northern mushrooms." It can be seen from this that straw mushrooms were cultivated by monks in Guangdong about two hundred years ago in the late Qing Dynasty, and their taste is no worse than that of northern mushrooms.

We know that monks are not allowed to eat meat dishes, but eating only vegetarian food cannot meet their own physical needs. Modern research shows that eating vegetarian food alone will lack some essential amino acids in the human body. So what should we do? Later, it was discovered in practice that mushrooms seem to be able to make up for their own nutritional deficiencies and taste very good. This is why straw mushrooms are the first to be planted by monks in temples.