The truffle grows in the bottom of the tree 120 to 150 centimeters square, block body hidden in the ground 3 to 40 centimeters. Distributed in Italy, France, Spain, China, New Zealand and other countries.

The truffle grows in the soil, is a kind of attached to the roots of pine trees under the stem tuber fungi, containing a lot of water and potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, fluorine and other trace mineral elements.

It is not soft and juicy like other mushrooms, but rather hard. Truffle prefers alkaline soil, high quality truffles are mainly produced in calcareous terrain, such as Italy's Alba, France's Périgord, China's Yunnan and so on, all of which are located in calcareous terrain.

The edible value of truffles:

Scientific research data show that black truffles are rich in protein, 18 kinds of amino acids (including 8 kinds of essential amino acids that the human body can not synthesize), unsaturated fatty acids, a variety of vitamins, zinc, manganese, iron, calcium, phosphorus, selenium and other essential trace elements, as well as sphingolipids, cerebrosides, ceramides, triterpenes, androstenol, adenosine, truffulic acid, stanol , truffle polysaccharides, truffle polypeptides and a large number of other metabolites.

It has high nutritional and health care value. Among them, androstenone helps Yang, endocrine regulation of the significant effect;

Sphingolipids in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis and anti-tumor cytotoxicity has obvious activity; polysaccharides, peptides, triterpenoids have to enhance immunity, anti-aging, anti-fatigue and other roles in health care and health maintenance.

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Truffle effects and functions

1, truffles can nourish the body

Nourishing the body is one of the important effects of truffles, which not only contains a large amount of high-quality protein, but also contains more than a dozen kinds of amino acids and a large number of unsaturated Fatty acids, in addition to vitamins and minerals are also the most important presence of truffles, truffles also contain some sphingolipids and triterpenoids and acidic and alcoholic substances, people can absorb the nutrients after consumption to regulate the body, can alleviate the body weakness, but also improve people's physical fitness.

2, truffles can regulate the nerves to prevent cancer

Truffles contain androstenone can help Yang can also regulate the endocrine, can regulate the activity of human nerve cells, to prevent neurasthenia, in addition to truffles contain sphingolipids and polysaccharides as well as peptides and other trace elements can prevent human dementia and memory loss, they can clean up the body of viruses, inhibit cancer cell generation. Generation, usually eaten in moderation can also play a cancer prevention, anti-fatigue and anti-aging and other effects.

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