Cordyceps sinensis, also known as Cordyceps sinensis, is a complex of Cordyceps sinensis and hepialidae larvae. Cordyceps sinensis is composed of insect body and fungal stroma growing from insect head. The worm is shaped like a silkworm, 3-5 cm long and 0.3-0.8 cm in diameter.
The surface of Cordyceps sinensis is dark yellow to yellowish brown, with 20~30 ring lines, and the ring lines near the head are thin; The head is reddish brown; 8 feet, 4 pairs in the middle are more obvious; Fragile, easily broken, slightly flat section, yellow and white.
Cordyceps sinensis is a slender cylinder with a length of 4~ 7 cm and a diameter of about 0.3 cm. . The surface is dark brown to brown with fine longitudinal wrinkles, and the upper part is slightly enlarged; The material is flexible and the cross section is white.
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Cordyceps sinensis is prohibited from being used in health care products;
In 20 16, China Food and Drug Administration organized the monitoring and inspection of Cordyceps sinensis, Cordyceps sinensis powder and pure powder products. The arsenic content in Cordyceps sinensis, Cordyceps sinensis powder and pure powder products is 4.4 ~ 9.9 mg/kg.
The limit value of arsenic in National Safety Standard for Health Food is 1.0 mg/kg. Long-term consumption of Cordyceps sinensis, Cordyceps sinensis powder, pure powder tablets and other products will cause excessive arsenic intake and may accumulate in the human body, which poses a high risk.
Cordyceps sinensis is not a dual-purpose substance for food and medicine, and cannot be used as a raw material for health care products alone. The raw materials of health care products must be listed in the catalogue of health care products, some of which belong to Chinese herbal medicines, but these Chinese herbal medicines must be in the homologous catalogue of medicine and food before they can be used as raw materials of health care products.
Baidu encyclopedia-Cordyceps sinensis
People's Network-Is Cordyceps Edible for Non-medicinal Use? The experiment of Cordyceps sinensis as a health care product was stopped.