What are mushrooms

In daily life, you also need to pay special attention to your diet. Because usually, the staple foods we eat are rice, flour and the like. But if it is a vegetable, you can eat some fungi. Mushrooms should be a common food and there are different types. There are many different ways to make it, depending on your taste. What needs to be paid attention to is whether mushrooms are poisonous. What are mushrooms?

Fungi are composed of two parts: mycelium and fruiting body. Mycelium is the nutritional organ and fruiting body is the reproductive organ.

Mature spores germinate into hyphae. The hyphae are multicellular with transverse septa, elongated by apical growth, white, slender, wool-like, and gradually become filamentous. The hyphae are connected to form a dense mass called a mycelium. After the mycelium is saprophytic, the dark brown culture medium turns into light brown. The fruiting body of the mushroom looks like an open umbrella when mature.

Dietary effects

1. Improve the body's immunity.

The active ingredients of the fungi can enhance the function of T lymphocytes, thereby improving the body's immune function against various diseases.

2. Analgesia and sedation.

A Brazilian research institute extracted a substance called Act-2 from fungi, which has analgesic and sedative effects and can replace morphine for analgesic effect.

3. Relieve cough and reduce phlegm.

The mushroom extract was used in animal experiments and found to have a significant antitussive and sputum-thinning effect.

The main causes of poisoning from eating wild mushrooms

1. Accidentally ingesting poisonous fungi. Relevant departments have made statistics and found that there are hundreds of common wild mushrooms, but only thirty or forty kinds of mushrooms are edible. For example, there is a poisonous mushroom that looks very similar to the Brussels mushroom, which is often mixed with the edible Brussels mushroom, causing mushroom pickers to pick it up without noticing. If people eat it, tragedy is inevitable. Anyone who eats cooked mushrooms may be poisoned.

3. Although some wild mushrooms are non-toxic, if the place where they grow is polluted or the underground strata contain toxic minerals such as phosphorus. Accidentally eating mushrooms picked from such places can easily lead to poisoning.

How to Identify Toxic Wild Mushrooms

Generally speaking, poisonous fungi are brightly colored and have warts. There are bumps on the caps of poisonous fungi, as well as red spots, grooves, and cracks. Some fungi have stipes and rings. Generally, when poisonous fungi are picked off, juice will flow out with a pungent smell. Toxic bacteria can also be identified from the following aspects:

1. Observe the appearance. Generally, poisonous mushrooms are brighter in color than edible mushrooms, with red, purple, yellow or variegated spots on the cap and rings and saucers on the stem.

2. Smell the smell. Poisonous fungi often taste pungent, smelly and bitter, while edible fungi have the inherent fragrance of the fungi and no peculiar smell.

3. Color change test. Rub the cap with the white part of green onion. If it turns bluish-brown, it is poisonous; otherwise, it is non-toxic. When cooked, poisonous mushrooms often turn black when they come into contact with silver, and turn blue or brown when they come into contact with chopped garlic.

4. Milk test. Sprinkle a small amount of fresh milk on the surface of the bacteria. If the milk clumps on the surface, it may be toxic.