Flammulina:its nutritional values, health benefits and uses.
Flammulina:Introduction.
Flammulina velutipes is a scientific name for the Flammulina velutiper(Fr.) Sing. Because of its slender mushroom handle, like needle vegetables, so-called "gold needle mushroom", is a kind of fungus, algae, and lichen. Flammulina velutipes has a high medicinal therapeutic effect. It is commonly known as Enoki Mushroom.
Flammulina velutipes is widely distributed in nature, including China, Europe, North America, and Australia. It grows well in China from the north to the south, the east to the west. Flammulina mushrooms contain no chlorophyll, are not photosynthetic and cannot make carbohydrates, but can grow in the dark.
It is necessary to absorb readily available organic materials from the medium, such as degradation of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. It is saprotrophic, a heterotrophic organism, and belongs to the category of idiomycetes. Mushroom cap small and delicate, yellowish-brown or light yellow, mushroom meat color white. Texture soft and tender, moistening and smooth, stalk like a gold needle, so comes the name "gold needle" of the mushroom.
Flammulina velutipes are rich in amino acids, higher than ordinary mushrooms, especially lysine, which has the function of promoting children's intellectual development. The dried mushroom contains 8.87% protein, 60.2% carbohydrate and 7.4% crude fiber. Research has also shown that a substance contained in flammulina velutipes has a very good anti-cancer effect. Flammulina velutipes is not only delicious food but also good health food. The artificial cultivation technique of Flammulina velutila is not complicated, as long as the environmental conditions can be well controlled, it is easy to obtain stable and reliable yield.
Nutritional value of flammulina velutipes.
Flammulina velutipes is rich in nutritional value and has been selected as the better vegetable in the World Health Organization's better food list. Flammulina velutipes contains protein (8 of the 18 amino acids are essential for the human body).
It also contains unsaturated fatty acid, crude fiber, vitamin B2, inorganic element calcium, magnesium, zinc, potassium and so on. Besides, it also contains carotene, plant hemagglutinin, polysaccharide, taurine, mushroom purine, ophioposterol, cytolytic toxin, mushroom cytotoxin and so on.
✵Zinc: Flammulina velutipes contains a high amount of zinc, which can promote children's intellectual development and brain health. It also helps men prevent prostate disease.
✵Potassium: often eat Flammulina velutipes mushroom, can prevent and treat liver disease and ulcer of stomach and intestines. It is also suitable for high blood pressure patients, obese people and the elderly, mainly because it is high potassium and low sodium food.
✵Crude fiber: modern medical experiments show that there is rich crude fiber in Flammulina velutipes mushroom, especially in the mushroom stalk, which can aid to adsorb cholic acid in the human body, increase gastrointestinal movement, and promote digestive function. Crude fiber can also regulate the metabolism of cholesterol, reduce the cholesterol content in the body, and can promote the elimination of heavy metal ions in the body.
✵Polysaccharides: Flammulina velutipes also contains a polysaccharide, which enhances the body's resistance to cancer cells. And researchers have also discovered this substance has a good anticancer activity.
✵Lysine: the Flammulina velutipes mushroom contains the essential amino acid composition, the amino acid content is higher than the general mushroom, among which the lysine and arginine content is particularly rich, has the good function to enhance the intelligence, especially to the child's height and the intelligence development.
✵Copper: copper is an indispensable micronutrient for human health. It has important effects on the development and function of blood, central nervous system, and immune system, hair, skin and bone tissues, brain, liver, heart and other internal viscera.
✵Protein and polysaccharide: Flammulina velutipes mushroom is rich in protein and polysaccharide, which can reduce cholesterol in the blood, help lower blood pressure, prevent obesity, diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
✵Carotene: Flammulina velutipes contains carotene, which can promote skin cell metabolism, prevent skin roughness and pigmentation, and delay senescence.
✵Vitamin B2: Flammulina velutipes mushroom contains vitamin B2, lack of vitamin B2 it will appear in the mouth corner, lip inflammation, eye conjunctivitis, and scrotal inflammation.
✵Vitamin A: vitamin A can relieve eye fatigue, prevent dry eye diseases and night blindness, protect the skin and promote growth.
✵Shiitake purine: shiitake purine in Flammulina velutipes mushroom has the effect of reducing cholesterol in the blood and can effectively prevent arteriosclerosis.
✵1. Flammulina velutipes contains essential amino acids in the whole form, especially in lysine and arginine, and high in zinc, which is essential for enhancing intelligence, especially for children's height and intellectual development.
✵2. The Flammulina velutipes mushroom also contains a kind of polysaccharides, enhance the body's resistance to cancer cells, often eat Flammulina velutipes mushroom can lower cholesterol, prevent liver disease and gastrointestinal ulcer, enhance the body's vitality, disease prevention, and fitness.
✵3. Flammulina velutipes can effectively enhance the biological activity of the body and promote metabolism in the body. It is conducive to the absorption and utilization of various nutrients in food. It is also of great benefits to growth and development.
✵4. Flammulina velutipes can inhibit blood lipid, reduce cholesterol, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
✵⒌ Flammulina velutipes have resistance to fatigue, antibacterial and relieve inflammation, remove heavy metal salts material, antitumor effect.
✵6. Often eat Flammulina velutipes, not only can prevent and treat liver disease and stomach, intestinal ulcer, but also suitable for patients with high blood pressure, obese people and the elderly, this is mainly because it is high potassium and low sodium food.
Medicinal value of flammulina velutipes:
Usually, we eat Flammulina velutipes mushrooms in autumn or winter or early spring. Flammulina velutipes is an edible mushroom, and Flammulina velutipes itself has rich nutritional constituents, so often eating Flammulina velutipes can also have a certain medicinal value.
There are a lot of protein components in Flammulina velutipes mushroom, a lot of amino acids, a lot of vitamins and other nutrients, and these nutrients will give our body a great help. And these nutrients also play a certain medicinal effect, let's see the medicinal value of Flammulina velutipes.
✵1. Anti-fatigue: there are many protein components and amino acids in Flammulina velutipes mushroom. Mice taking Flammulina velutipes mushroom for a certain period have significantly increased lactate dehydrogenase activity, muscle glycogen, and liver glycogen content, which can resist fatigue. To produce the effect of accelerating fatigue elimination.
✵2. Anti-inflammatory: the effective components extracted from the mycelium and fruiting body of Flammulina velutipes have anti-inflammatory effects on a mouse model of auricle inflammation, and have antibacterial and anti-inflammatory effects on the human body.
✵3. Prevent high blood lipids and lower cholesterol: Flammulina mushroom can inhibit the increase of blood lipids caused by animal feeding, reduce cholesterol, prevent and cure cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
✵4. Anti-tumor effect: Flammulina velutipes polysaccharide has significant anti-tumor activity effect on mouse transplanted sarcoma S18, liver cancer H22 and LeuiS lung cancer, and its intensity is similar to that of polysaccharide of Ganoderma yunnanensis. Pleurotin extracted from Flammulina velutipes can also effectively inhibit the growth of tumors and has obvious anticancer effects.
✵5. Metabolism promotion: research shows that Flammulina velutipes can effectively enhance the biological activity of the body, promote the metabolism in the body, and is conducive to the absorption and utilization of various nutrients in food.
For the medicinal value of Flammulina velutipes, through the introduction of health experts, we understand it clearly. This is to tell us that people with the above diseases can eat more Flammulina velutipes mushrooms at ordinary times, which can play a role in regulating the disease and reduce the symptoms of the disease. It also increases the body's resistance.
The efficacy and function of flammulina velutipes:
Flammulina velutipes nature cold, sweet, salty taste, enter into the liver, stomach. It can nourish liver and kidney, benefit intestines and stomach, increase intelligence and fight cancer. It can be used to treat liver disease, gastrointestinal inflammation, ulcers and tumors.
✵1. Promote growth and development: Flammulina velutipes can promote the growth and development of children and strengthen their brain.
✵2. Promote metabolism: Flammulina velutipes can effectively enhance the life activity of the body, promote the metabolism in the body, is conducive to the absorption and utilization of various nutrients in food, and is of great benefit to growth and development.
✵3. Lowering blood lipids and cholesterol: Flammulina velutipes can inhibit the increase of blood lipids, reduce cholesterol, prevent hyperlipidemia, and thus reduce the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases.
✵4. Anti-fatigue, anti-inflammation: edible flammulina velutipes has the effect of resisting fatigue, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory, eliminating heavy metal salts and anti-tumor.
✵5. Prevent allergies: researchers also found that Flammulina mushrooms can prevent asthma, rhinitis, eczema and other allergic diseases.
✵6. Anti-cancer: Flammulina velutilae can improve body immunity, fight against viral infection and cancer, and have an obvious anti-cancer effect on liver cancer and lung cancer.
✵7. Prevention and treatment of ulcer: regular consumption helps to regulate the balance of blood pH in the body, prevention, and treatment of atherosclerosis, hypertension, coronary heart disease, hepatitis, ulcer, and other diseases.
✵8. Liver protection: often eat Flammulina velutipes mushrooms can also prevent liver disease, enhance body health, prevent disease and fitness.
✵9. Boost appetite, aid digestion: the Flammulina velutipes mushroom has a unique fragrance, and rich in amino acids, can boost appetite. Besides, its nutrient composition can promote the peristalsis of gastric bowel, discharge the wastes inside the body in time outside the body, have effect extremely to helping digestion and constipation of prevention and cure.
✵10. Reduce cholesterol: healthy cholesterol content in the body is very normal, but in recent years, people's living standards have been improved, people are very careless when eating, leading to increased cholesterol content in the body, causing a variety of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Especially some middle-aged and elderly people have a high cholesterol level if not timely control will affect the health, usually the elderly eat more Flammulina velutipes mushrooms can effectively reduce the cholesterol level in the body.
✵11. Fatigue relief: cholesterol levels are normal in healthy people, and people who work hard every day and don't get enough rest are prone to chronic fatigue. Some foods are good for relieving fatigue, such as Flammulina velutipes mushrooms. Usually, people too tired in the daily can eat a diet with more Flammulina velutipes mushrooms.
✵12. Inhibit cancer cells: cancer is very harmful to human beings, so far, cancer has not been completely cured, scientists can do nothing about many cancers. We can prevent cancer through diet, many foods contain the effect of inhibiting cancer cells. For example, Flammulina velutipes mushrooms contain a kind of material called polysaccharide piotinin, the anti-cancer effect is very good, people want to prevent cancer can usually eat Flammulina velutipes mushrooms.
✵13. Improve physical immunity: we all know that people with stronger physical immunity are less likely to get sick. Many sickly people just have poor physical immunity. Besides, to exercise to improve their immunity, diet can also promote the improvement of physical immunity. Here small makeup suggests that people eat more famulus mushrooms to improve immunity because flammulus mushrooms contain a protein can improve immunity.
Tips for Flammulina velutipes.
✵Avoid food with Flammulina velutipes:
Clams: clams contain vitamin B1 enzymes that destroy vitamin B1 in Flammulina velutipes mushrooms, leading to nutrient loss.
✵Food suitable for Flammulina velutipes mushroom:
Tofu: flammulina velutipes has the function of improving intelligence and strengthening body, combine with tofu, they can help anti-cancer.
White radish: Flammulina velutipes mushroom can strengthen spleen and stomach, an internal viscus, combine with detoxification of radish, the effect is more obvious.
Mung bean sprouts: mushroom and mung bean sprouts eat together, with heat-clearing and disinfection effect, often used in the prevention and treatment of heat-stroke and enteritis.
Chicken: Flammulina velutipes mushroom suits to match with chicken, can promote the absorption of protein and adipose digestion, reduce the burden of gastrointestinal, prevent and cure gastrointestinal disease.
Spinach: Flammulina velutipes mushroom is rich in potassium, can inhibit the rise of blood pressure, lower cholesterol, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases; Dietary fiber could absorb cholic acid, lower cholesterol, thereby preventing and treating hypertension; Magnesium in spinach reduces the stress-induced release of norepinephrine, and the combination could lower blood pressure.
Tomato: Flammulina velutipes mushroom and tomato contain potassium and vitamin, help maintain the balance of salt in the body, promote blood circulation, beneficial to patients with high blood pressure.