Due to frequent rains in early autumn, fungus will always grow at this time. My mother and I had picked fungus from an old tree trunk before and ate it, but we still felt very comfortable while eating it. Later I saw news that a seven-year-old girl in a family died of poisoning and systemic organ failure due to eating fungus.

I was surprised when I saw this news. I think we should never pick and eat fungus outside casually again, because if we are not careful, it may kill us. Even if you want to eat fungus yourself, you still have to go to a regular vegetable market and cook it in a regular way.

In fact, if we eat fungus correctly, it will not cause poisoning at all. The poisoning caused by eating fungus may be due to some incorrect methods in the process of making fungus.

For example, our fungus is relatively dry when eaten, so we use water to swell it during the production process. Some people think that the longer they soak the fungus, the better, because the longer they soak, the bigger the fungus will grow. And if you soak it for a little longer, you don’t have to cook it for so long when frying.

In fact, if our fungus is soaked for too long, a toxic bacteria, Pseudomonas cocotoxin, will be produced. If this bacteria is produced in large quantities, it can easily kill people. This is why the seven-year-old girl died of poisoning after eating a plate of fungus. If you are poisoned by this kind of bacteria, there are basically no specific drugs, the mortality rate is very high, and it damages our liver most quickly.

This virus prefers an environment of 20 to 30 degrees in our temperature, so when we soak the fungus, we can put it in the refrigerator at a lower temperature, so that this virus is less likely to occur.