Can eating black fungus help you lose weight?

Fungus is generally more common in China and Japan, and has a relatively high water content. It can fill you up without making you gain weight, so you can lose weight by eating fungus, but you must control the amount of other foods. If you eat a lot of other things and then eat fungus, it will not help you lose weight.

1. The weight loss principle of cold black fungus

After being cooked, black fungus contains about 80% water, and the rest is pectin, polysaccharides, and protein, so black fungus belongs to the category of "filling the stomach but without calories".

Black fungus has the effect of detoxification and beauty. It can cure constipation, help the body excrete toxins and make the skin more shiny.

2. How to make cold black fungus

1. Prepare the ingredients: 50g fungus, 1 red pepper, 1 handful of coriander; appropriate amounts of salt, light soy sauce, sesame oil, aged vinegar, and white sugar.

2. Soak the black fungus: Soak the black fungus in cold water for half a day.

3. Wash the fungus: clean it and tear it into small pieces.

4. Blanching: Blanch the fungus in boiling water, remove from the water, rinse with cold water, drain and place in a large bowl.

5. Shred: Cut red pepper into thin strips and chop coriander into sections and put into a large bowl.

6. Seasoning: In another small bowl, mix appropriate amounts of salt, light soy sauce, sugar, aged vinegar and sesame oil, and pour over the fungus.

7. Mix well: Mix the fungus, red pepper, coriander and seasonings and it is ready to eat.

3. Nutritional value

The protein content of fungus is six times that of milk, and it also contains a lot of calcium, phosphorus, iron and cellulose. In addition, it also contains sugars such as mannan, glucose, xylose, and lecithin, ergosterol and vitamin C. Fungus has the effect of preventing atherosclerosis. It is rich in protein, and contains various vitamins and minerals, especially iron. Every 100 grams of dried fungus contains 185 mg of iron, which is 100 times that of meat. Black fungus is an excellent food for patients with iron deficiency anemia. Black fungus also has the function of moisturizing the intestines and detoxifying. The adenine nucleoside in black fungus has a significant effect in inhibiting thrombosis, so it is also an excellent health food for middle-aged and elderly people. Black fungus also has a relatively significant dissolving function for endogenous foreign bodies such as gallstones, kidney stones, bladder stones, and fecal stones. Black fungus also contains a variety of minerals, which can produce strong chemical reactions on various stones, exfoliating, differentiating, and eroding the stones, shrinking them and allowing them to be excreted. Black fungus is a tonic with mild medicinal properties, so it is only suitable for daily health care of people with mild or chronic illnesses or sub-health. In case of severe or acute illnesses, it should be used in combination with other medicines or as a treatment auxiliary. In addition, black fungus is difficult to digest and has a certain laxative effect, so people with spleen deficiency, indigestion or loose stools should not use it; people who are allergic to black fungus and similar fungi should not take it.