The wild golden needle mushroom is usually golden yellow, artificially cultivated due to the better growing environment, so many are white, in nature there are also yellow golden needle mushroom and white golden needle mushroom, except that the white golden needle mushroom in a purely natural environment, after the wind and rain, and slowly turned into yellow.

One, varieties of enoki mushrooms

Fresh enoki mushrooms are divided into yellow and white two kinds, yellow enoki mushrooms should be light yellow or yellowish brown, the top ? The cap of the mushroom is darker in the middle and the stalk is darker in color. The middle color is darker, and the mushroom stalk is light and dark, while the white enoki mushroom is light white or creamy white. It is worth noting that some vendors spray water on enoki mushrooms to make them look fresh. When customers buy them, look for small yellow spots on the mushroom caps, indicating that they have been sprayed with water.

Be careful: No matter what kind of enoki mushrooms you buy, the color is not particularly bright. If you occasionally buy canned, pay attention to three points: the packaging should have QS logo, it is produced by the regular manufacturers, the golden needle mushroom soup should be clear, such as the mushroom cap is all open or cracked, which indicates that the golden needle mushrooms have deteriorated or spoiled.

Two, whitened enoki mushrooms

Some unscrupulous people may use methods such as sulfur fumigation to treat enoki mushrooms first and then cook them to make them more beautiful and whiter.

But this whitening treatment usually uses industrial sulfur, which is carcinogenic, and sodium bisulfite, which is a strong irritant that can harm the eyes and mucous membranes of the skin, causing great harm to health. In addition, in order to extend the shelf life of enoki mushrooms, enoki mushrooms? Nutritional water? may also be tampered with by unscrupulous traders. It is recommended that you do not buy, it is likely to add things that should not be added to the golden needle mushrooms .

Three, the purchase of enoki mushrooms

Yellow varieties of high-quality enoki mushrooms color, should be light yellow to yellow-brown, slightly darker in the center of the cap, the stipe on the light and dark; and white enoki mushrooms color should be white or cream. No matter which kind of enoki mushrooms you buy, you should buy enoki mushrooms with particularly even color, bright, fragrant and odorless, otherwise they are very likely to be smoked, bleached, dyed or treated with additives.