Efficacy and function of Lentinus edodes
Sexual taste is sweet, flat and cool.
Liver meridian and stomach meridian.
Has the effects of nourishing liver and kidney, invigorating spleen and stomach, invigorating qi and blood, improving intelligence and tranquilizing mind, beauty beauty, eliminating phlegm and regulating qi, invigorating stomach and regulating middle warmer, removing toxic substances, resisting tumor and supporting acne rash.
Indications are anorexia, weakness, urinary incontinence, constipation, obesity, tumor sores and other diseases.
1, improve immune function: lentinan can improve the phagocytosis of peritoneal macrophages in mice, promote the production of T lymphocytes and improve the killing activity of T lymphocytes.
2. Anti-aging: The water extract of Lentinus edodes has a scavenging effect on hydrogen peroxide, and has a certain scavenging effect on hydrogen peroxide in the body.
3, anti-cancer: another compound contained in mushrooms-Lentinus edodes purine (also known as erythropurine) can lower cholesterol levels. The antioxidant content of shiitake mushroom is 12 times that of malt and 4 times that of chicken liver. Compared with Tricholoma matsutake and Grifola frondosa (also known as Pleurotus eryngii, commonly known as Pleurotus ostreatus and Lentinus edodes), it is more effective in lowering blood pressure and resisting cancer.
4. Lowering blood pressure, blood lipid and cholesterol: Lentinus edodes contains purine, choline, tyrosine, oxidase and some nucleic acid substances, which can lower blood pressure, cholesterol and blood lipid and prevent diseases such as arteriosclerosis and cirrhosis.
5, treatment of diseases: mushrooms also have therapeutic effects on diabetes, tuberculosis, infectious hepatitis, neuritis and so on. It can also be used for dyspepsia and constipation.
Nutritional value of Lentinus edodes
The edible part of dried Lentinus edodes accounts for 72%, and each 100g edible part contains 13g water, 1.8g fat, 54g carbohydrate, 7.8g crude fiber, 4.9g ash, 124mg calcium and 465438 phosphorus. In addition to the water content of 85-90%, fresh mushrooms also contain crude protein 19.9%, crude fat 4%, soluble nitrogen-free substances 67%, crude fiber 7% and ash 3%.
1, Lentinus edodes is rich in provitamin D, but little in vitamin C, lacking provitamin A and provitamin A. ..
2. Mushroom protein contains 18 amino acids. Among the eight kinds of amino acids necessary for human body, Lentinus edodes accounts for 7 kinds, and most of them are L-type amino acids, which have high activity and are easily absorbed by human body, and the digestibility is as high as 80%.
3. Mushrooms contain a lot of glutamic acid, auricularia acid, trichomonic acid and goose acid, which are rare in ordinary food, so they are particularly delicious.
What do mushrooms go with?
1, Lentinus edodes+Papaya: Papaya contains papain and lipase. Eating with Lentinus edodes can lower blood pressure and blood lipid.
2, mushrooms+tofu: spleen and stomach, increase appetite.
3, mushrooms+glutinous rice: rich in nutrients, phlegm and qi. Mushroom is a delicious food, which has the effects of invigorating qi, satisfying hunger, treating wind and blood, resolving phlegm and regulating qi. Coix seed has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, clearing heat and expelling pus. Both of them are good anticancer products. Cooked porridge or steamed coix seed mushroom rice together has the effects of invigorating spleen, promoting diuresis, regulating qi and resolving phlegm, and is an ideal dietotherapy food for patients with liver disease and liver cancer.
What can't mushrooms be eaten with?
1, mushroom+donkey meat: easy to cause abdominal pain and diarrhea.
2, mushrooms+quail meat, quail eggs: it is easy to grow dark spots on the face.
3, mushrooms+river crabs: easy to cause symptoms of stones. Mushrooms contain vitamin D, and river crabs are also rich in vitamin D. When they are eaten together, the vitamin D content in the human body will be too high, which will lead to an increase in calcium. Long-term consumption will easily cause symptoms of stones.
4, mushrooms+tomatoes: destroy carotenoids and reduce nutritional value. Mushrooms are rich in biochemical substances. Eating them with tomatoes containing carotenoids will destroy the carotenoids contained in tomatoes and reduce their nutritional value.
Suitable mushroom population
The general population can eat it.
Suitable for dizziness, anemia, leukopenia, decreased self-resistance and the elderly and infirm. People with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, diabetes and obesity should eat it; Cancer patients and tumor patients should eat after radiotherapy and chemotherapy; Acute and chronic hepatitis, fatty liver, gallstones and constipation should be eaten; Children with measles and rickets are suitable for eating; Patients with nephritis should eat.
Avoid mushrooms as wind food, and patients with intractable skin itching should not eat them. It is not suitable for people with spleen and stomach cold, dampness and qi stagnation or itchy skin.
How to buy mushrooms
1, the mushroom is fragrant, with thick meat, smooth mushroom surface, uniform size, yellowish brown or dark brown color, slightly frosted mushroom surface, compact mushroom pleats, white mushroom stalk, short and thick, dry, mildew-free and not easy to break.
2. Don't eat extra large fresh mushrooms, because most of them are fattened with hormones, and eating them in large quantities will have adverse effects on the body.
3. Some mushroom noodles are cracked. When buying, it is necessary to recognize whether the cracks are naturally generated, and if they are artificially cut, they are fakes.
Storage method of shiitake mushrooms
1. Fresh shiitake mushrooms can be packaged with breathable film and stored in the refrigerator for about a week, or they can be frozen directly.
2. Dried mushrooms should be preserved in sealed cans, and it is best to take them out and dry them once a month, which can be preserved for more than half a year. It can also be directly refrigerated or frozen to avoid moth-eaten.
Edible method of shiitake mushrooms
1, good mushrooms should be kept in the refrigerator to avoid nutrient loss.
2. Wash the mushroom surface with cold water first. Mushrooms with stalks can be taken out from the roots and then soaked in a warm water basin with their gills facing down. Mushrooms become soft. After gills are opened, gently stir them in one direction with your hands, so that the sediment slowly sinks to the bottom of the basin, or gently pat them with chopsticks, and the sediment will fall into the water.
Don't throw away the water for soaking mushrooms. Many nutrients are dissolved in water. As long as the dried mushrooms are cleaned before soaking, the soaked water can be completely reused.
4. If the mushrooms are clean, just rinse them with clear water, so as to keep the fresh flavor of the mushrooms.
5. Try to avoid soaking or adding sugar in very hot water, so that mushrooms can be soaked as soon as possible, which will make a lot of water-soluble components, such as precious polysaccharides and excellent amino acids, dissolve in water and destroy the nutrition of mushrooms.