The fungus grows mainly in China and Japan. Most of China is the Northeast fungus and Qinling fungus. Mullein can be both wild and artificially cultivated, the seed entity is auriculate, leafy or cup-shaped, thin, wavy edges, 3-10 centimeters wide, about 2 millimeters thick, with a lateral short stalk or a narrow attachment fixed on the substrate. Black-brown color, soft gelatinous texture, thin and elastic, semi-transparent when wet, drying contraction into brittle hard horny nearly leathery. The flavor is delicious, can be vegetarian or meat, nutritious. Fungus taste sweet, flat, with many medicinal effects. Can benefit gas and strong body, blood effectiveness, and can prevent and control iron deficiency anemia, etc.; blood can nourish the face, people's skin red, glowing, can dredge the stomach, lubricate the intestinal tract, at the same time, patients with high blood pressure is also of some help.

Scavenger of the human body

Black fungus is rich in plant collagen content, it has a strong adsorption effect, unintentionally eaten under the indigestible hair, hulls, wood residue, sand, metal shavings, and other foreign matter also has a dissolving and oxidizing effect. Eating black fungus can play a role in cleaning up the digestive tract, clearing the stomach and cleansing the intestines. Especially engaged in ore mining, metallurgy, cement manufacturing, hairdressing, flour milling, cotton spinning and wool spinning and other air pollution workers, often eat black fungus can play a good health role.

High-quality natural blood tonic

Black fungus is known to nutritionists as 'vegetarian meat' and 'vegetarian king', per 100 grams of black fungus containing 185 mg of iron, it is more than the Green leafy vegetables containing the highest amount of iron spinach 20 times higher than the highest amount of iron in animal food than pig liver is also about 7 times higher than the highest amount of iron, is a variety of meat and vegetarian food containing the most iron. Chinese medicine believes that the black fungus taste sweet and flat, cool blood, stop bleeding effect, the main treatment of hemoptysis, vomiting blood, epistaxis, dysentery, collapse, hemorrhoidal bleeding, constipation with blood, etc., is because of its high iron content, can be in time for the human body to supplement enough iron, so it is a kind of natural blood replenishment food.

The picture shows fake fungus

How to distinguish this fake fungus?

Distinguishing methods a:

Processed from the fungus, ear surface color dull, ear back hangs a "fine white frost", do piece of sticking curled, knotted into a lump, feel heavy, hard bang. Put in the mouth to taste, taste abnormal: salt is salt, sweet is brown sugar or honey, astringent is magnesium sulfate or copper sulfate, bitter may be salt brine. In addition, its water absorption is relatively poor, after absorbing water the volume can only grow 3 to 5 times.

Distinguishing method two:

Artificial fungus because of brown sugar for color, so the mouth taste sweet, while the natural fungus is not sweet. The seaweed gum used in the whole artificial fungus is a natural food additive that absorbs very little water, so the volume growth after soaking in water is also very limited. In addition, with a small amount of water to soak the fungus, and then add soda to the water, "artificial fungus" soaked out of the water will become cloudy