Oyster mushrooms are large mushrooms from family veshenkovy. Young mushrooms have dark gray or brownish color and convex hats with wrapped up edges, and late - dark ashy with a violet shade, with the flat hat having wavy edges. To taste they can be compared to cepes, besides oyster mushrooms have a set of health giving qualities.
Advantage of oyster mushrooms
Mushrooms of an oyster mushroom incorporate all useful substances necessary for a human body. This mushroom is very close to vegetables on the content of amino acids and proteins and surpasses vegetable cultures in amount of carbohydrates and fats. Oyster mushrooms contain a large number of minerals and vitamins, in them there are enzymes accelerating splitting of fats. Mushrooms contain useful cellulose which normalizes activity of intestinal microflora, promotes a conclusion of toxins from an organism and to decrease in level of cholesterol.
The mineral substances which are contained in oyster mushrooms regulate a metabolism in an organism. Oyster mushrooms and to people with cholelithiasis are recommended.
Health giving qualities of oyster mushrooms
The regular use of mushrooms of oyster mushrooms in food promotes a conclusion from an organism of radioactive materials and is prevention of oncological diseases. In world medicine medicines on the basis of this mushroom are applied to prevention and cancer therapy, an allergy and other diseases.
Mushrooms contain an antibiotic under the name plurotin which has strong antineoplastic and antibacterial properties. Oyster mushrooms possess anti-virus action, and thanks to the high content of polysaccharides, they increase immunity.
These mushrooms need to be included in a diet in the presence of the diseases which developed because of decrease in immunity of an organism, for example, at some skin diseases, diseases got as a result of radiation exposure. Chitin also attracts polysaccharides absorb in themselves poisonous substances and bring them out of an organism - it the property of oyster mushrooms is very important at beam radiation and chemotherapy during treatment of oncological diseases.
As prepare and store oyster mushrooms
Mushrooms of an oyster mushroom contain chitin which isn't acquired by an organism, however it collapses at heat treatment. That oyster mushrooms didn't do harm to an organism, they need to be cut and prepared small at high temperature. Mushrooms can be boiled, fried or extinguished, added to soups.
It is better to eat only young oyster mushrooms as old mushrooms rigid and tasteless.
Oyster mushrooms quickly spoil. Therefore upon purchase choose the clean intact mushrooms. Smell them. If oyster mushrooms sharply and unpleasantly smell – they deteriorated, is them it is impossible. The fresh product has almost inaudible mushroom aroma. It is better to store the bought oyster mushrooms in the fridge, having shifted them from a plastic bag in a plastic or glass container. It is possible to store fresh mushrooms in the fridge no more than a week, the frozen oyster mushrooms store in the freezer about one year.