The real wild fungus, because it grows on rotting wood, its shape is like a human ear, so it is called fungus; and like a moth and butterfly, also known as wood moth; because it tastes like chicken, so it is also known as the tree chicken, wood machine (the ancient South Chu people said chicken for the machine): heavy fungus in the tree set each other, like a piece of floating clouds, and also has the name of the ear of the clouds.

People often eat fungus, there are mainly two kinds: one is the belly smooth, color black, and the back of the hairy gray or gray-brown, called the hairy fungus (commonly known as wild fungus); the other is the two sides of the smooth, black-brown, semi-transparent, known as light fungus. The hairy fungus ear is larger, but the texture is coarse and tough, not easy to chew, taste is not good, the price is low. Light fungus is soft and flavorful, slippery and refreshing, and rich in nutrients.

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Wild fungus is rich in nutrients, the protein content is equivalent to meat. It is rice, white flour, vegetables and other foods can not be compared. The content of vitamin B2 in fungus is 10 times higher than that of general rice and cabbage, and 3-5 times higher than that of beef, lamb and pork. Iron is 100 times higher than meat, calcium content is 30-70 times higher than meat, therefore, fungus is not only tasty, but also very high medicinal value. Available fungus food for dietary therapy.

People engaged in barbering, mining, dust, sawmill, repair, road protection and other operations should more often eat some black fungus.

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