Mushrooms – an excellent source of protein, vitamins and minerals. However they are quite hard digested and acquired so their use can be connected with certain difficulties, especially in case of pregnancy.
Advantage of mushrooms
In situation it is very useful for women to diversify the diet with fresh mushrooms. They are often called forest meat as the chemical composition of mushrooms is close to animal products. They abound with nitrogenous substances, but especially protein. In mushrooms it is much more of it, than in many vegetables. In white dried mushrooms of protein it is more, than in meat.
Besides, mushrooms are rich with copper, nicotinic acid. Especially mossiness mushrooms abound with it. On zinc content the mushrooms are in the first place among plants. However you should not forget that this product is strong allergen therefore pregnant women with the expressed toxicosis can have problems with their digestion. Despite abundance of useful substances, some doctors do not advise pregnant women to include mushrooms in the menu. The reason of this taboo is in risk of poisoning. Even for the healthy person the poisoning with mushrooms passes quite hard that to tell about pregnant women. For reinsurance you should not try during pregnancy new, unusual mushrooms which can cause atypical reaction, and here acquaintances, the "checked" types of this product can be used bravely, but only in case there are no doubts in their quality.
To include mushrooms in a diet or not, each pregnant woman solves. Keep in mind that the useful substances which are contained in mushrooms can be received also from other products. So to force itself to eat mushrooms in a pursuit of usefulness it is not necessary, especially, if you do not like their taste.
Inclusion in a diet of champignons will become ideal option for pregnant women. They contain optimum amount of amino acids and other useful substances.
How it is better for pregnant women to eat mushrooms?
Mushrooms almost do not lose the advantage even after thermal treatment. However it is the best of all for pregnant women to use mushrooms in a boiled or stewed look, and here fried it is desirable to exclude. Thermal treatment of forest mushrooms it is necessary to spend not less than an hour that potential toxic agents were destroyed under the influence of high temperature. You should not buy this product in the unchecked markets where the mushrooms picked at the busy highway can be on sale. It is the best of all to get them in the checked shop. It is possible to find slippery jacks, champignons, oyster mushrooms and honey agarics which are grown up in specialized greenhouses in supermarkets and undergo health control. Surely carefully examine mushrooms before preparation: on them there should not be a raid or a mold.
Mushrooms contain chitin which in large numbers renders load of digestive system. For this reason mushroom dishes are not suitable for an everyday diet of pregnant women.
It is better for pregnant women to avoid the marinated or salted mushrooms which are especially on sale in finished form. Similar mushrooms seriously concede natural in number of useful substances, in them there is no almost any advantage. Mushrooms in vinegar, for example, can cause heartburn and stomach pains, and salty - to increase puffiness of an organism.