Nutritional value of shiitake mushrooms

Shiitake mushroom is a famous edible mushroom in China and one of the specialties of China. It is known as "the queen of mushrooms" because of its delicious taste, refreshing aroma and rich nutrition.

Amino acid supplement

Shiitake mushrooms are rich in protein, with 18 of the 20 amino acids that make up protein, including 8 essential amino acids, which are four times more nutritious than beef, and also contain a lot of glutamic acid and the rare amino acids such as cryptomycin, mushroom acid and goose acid, which make the flavor particularly delicious.

Enhancement of immune system

The carbohydrates in shiitake mushrooms are most abundant in hemicellulose, in addition to polysaccharides, alginose, glucose, glycogen, pentosan and mannitol, etc. Shiitake mushroom polysaccharides can improve the phagocytosis of mouse abdominal macrophages, and also promote the production of T lymphocytes and increase the killing activity of T lymphocytes, enhancing immunity.

Lowering blood lipids

The content of fat in shiitake mushroom is not very high, but they are all unsaturated fatty acids. Often, consumption of shiitake mushroom can replenish the level of unsaturated fatty acids in the body, reduce the content of cholesterol and triglycerides in human blood, and have the effect of lowering blood pressure and blood lipids.

Lowering blood pressure

Shiitake mushrooms contain shiitake mushroom acids and shiitake mushroom taisen, among which shiitake mushroom acids are decomposed during the cooking process and called shiitake mushroom extracts, which give off a strong fragrance and enhance people's appetite. The shiitake mushroom taisen can prevent hardening of blood vessels, reduce the level of cholesterol in human blood and lower blood pressure.

Promotes bone growth

Shiitake mushroom is rich in ergosterol and mycosterol, which are vitamin D prodigies and can be transformed into vitamin D needed by human body, which is good for calcium absorption and bone growth, and can prevent rickets and anemia.

Prevention of cardiovascular diseases

Shiitake adenine can promote cholesterol metabolism and reduce its content in blood serum, which has certain preventive and therapeutic effects on cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis and hypertension. Shiitake mushroom is rich in vitamins, and vitamins have the effect of lowering blood lipids and increasing coronary blood flow, which also have good preventive and therapeutic functions for high blood and cardiovascular diseases.

How to eat shiitake mushrooms

Shiitake mushroom and rape

Ingredients: 400g of rape, 10 shiitake mushrooms, one piece of ginger, 2 cloves of garlic, 1 pickled pepper, 10g of soy sauce, 5g of oil consumption, 4g of starch, moderate amount of water, moderate amount of vegetable oil. Method. 1. Soak and wash the shiitake mushrooms, mushroom top to make a small pattern, wash the rape, cut small, pickled pepper cut fixed, garlic chopped, set aside. 2. Add water to the pot, put sesame oil and salt to boil and blanch the rape, blanch the rape on the plate; take half bowl of water and add such as soy sauce, rice vinegar, cooking oil, starch to make sauce, set aside 3. Add oil to the pot, add ginger and garlic, add mushrooms, salt and stir-fry. Add the seasoned juice, cook and stir while stirring for a hundred years, add pickled pepper when the soup is thick, and put the stewed mushrooms into the greens plate.