Can drinking Enoki mushroom tea help you lose belly fat? Nutritionist: 3 key factors to know when losing visceral fat

Open the search engine and enter words like "weight loss" and "slim belly", and you will find a lot of information and tips! The most popular one recently is: "A Japanese scholar recommended a middle-aged woman to drink homemade 'Enoki mushroom tea' every day for 4 consecutive weeks. She reduced 20% of visceral fat and slimmed down her lower abdomen without any exercise." This statement attracted the attention of many netizens and went viral. However, does "Enoki Mushroom Tea" really have such a magical weight loss effect? What should we do if we want to successfully reduce visceral fat?

Enoki mushrooms are rich in nutrients! High fiber, high potassium and low sodium, eating right will bring many benefits

Before discussing whether drinking enoki mushroom tea can help lose weight and reduce visceral fat, nutritionist Zhao Hanying said that people may wish to first look at the nutritional value of enoki mushrooms from a nutritional perspective and the benefits of moderate consumption!

According to the 2017 edition of the Taiwan Food Composition Database of the Food and Drug Administration, every 100 grams of Flammulina enoki mushrooms contains 33 calories, 2.3 grams of dietary fiber, 385 milligrams of potassium ions, and only 2 milligrams of sodium ions; it also contains 29.4 ug of folic acid, 130 mg of linoleic acid, and 1633 mg of hydrolyzed amino acids.

 ◆高膳食纖維，有利增加腸道蠕動、促排便

Looking at the above ingredients, it is not difficult to find that Enoki mushrooms, which contain 2.3 grams of dietary fiber per 100 grams, are indeed one of the highest dietary fiber ingredients among vegetables, even better than the same amount of spinach (1.9 grams) and cabbage (1.1 grams). Moderate consumption is indeed beneficial in increasing dietary fiber intake, thereby helping intestinal peristalsis and assisting in improving constipation and stool problems.

 ◆富含多醣體纖維、高鉀低鈉，能增飽足、消水腫

The slimy texture of Enoki mushrooms also contains special polysaccharide fiber ingredients. Moderate intake is not only beneficial for absorbing water and increasing satiety, but also has the effect of assisting in anti-inflammation and enhancing the body's immunity. In addition, due to the high potassium and low sodium characteristics of Flammulina velutipes, moderate consumption can also have the benefits of diuresis and anti-edema. Therefore, if people can include a moderate amount of Flammulina velutipes in their daily diet, it can indeed help with weight loss and has many benefits.

Drinking "Enoki Mushroom Tea" can reduce visceral fat? Nutritionists say...

However, the above discussion is mainly aimed at fresh enoki mushrooms. As for the homemade "Enoki mushroom tea" that has become a trend among netizens recently, does it also have the above benefits? Is it true that even without exercise, you can reduce visceral fat by 20% in 4 weeks?

In this regard, nutritionist Zhao Hanying pointed out that if drinking "Enoki mushroom tea" can help people who do not drink enough water every day to increase their water intake, it is indeed an alternative way of hydration that is beneficial for replenishing water and improving the body's fat burning efficiency through sufficient water intake.

 ◆金針菇茶富含亞麻油酸能提升脂肪代謝？4天僅使用200克實際效用不大

But it should be noted that if you look closely at the method of making "Enoki mushroom tea" circulating on the Internet, you will find that it is made by air-drying and crushing the Enoki mushrooms, taking the powder to make tea for drinking, and only 200 grams of Enoki mushrooms are used in 4 days. Judging from this data, the daily intake of Enoki mushrooms in this way is not much.

Therefore, even if the unsaturated fatty acid contained in Flammulina velutipes - linoleic acid, can indeed help improve fat metabolism. However, the content of linoleic acid in Flammulina enoki mushrooms is not high, only 130 mg per 100 grams. In addition, if you drink Flammulina enoki mushroom tea, you will only consume 200 grams of Flammulina enoki mushrooms in 4 days. Therefore, the health benefits of linoleic acid are still quite limited.

 ◆自製金針菇茶助減重？金針菇入菜，更便利、實際

In addition, the discussion about Enoki mushroom tea on the Internet only mentioned that the woman drank Enoki mushroom tea every day and did not exercise, but did not list in detail the middle-aged woman's three meals a day diet for 4 weeks. Therefore, it is not known whether the diet was controlled during the 4-week period to achieve a 20% decrease in visceral fat in one month.

Therefore, compared to making homemade enoki mushroom tea, nutritionist Zhao Hanying suggests that it is more convenient and practical to use enoki mushrooms directly in cooking. The only thing to remind you is that people with a history of chronic kidney disease, if their dietary potassium needs are limited, should avoid eating foods rich in potassium ions such as enoki mushrooms, red bean water, and vegetable soup, so as not to increase the burden on the kidneys without knowing it.

There is a trick to get rid of visceral fat! The secret lies in these 3 key dietary maintenance

As for, what should you do if you want to get rid of visceral fat? Nutritionist Zhao Hanying mentioned that visceral fat is a type of fat in the human body that is responsible for protecting human organs and reducing external impact. However, it is worth noting that when there is too much visceral fat, it will further burden the body, not only easily forming fatty liver; it will also greatly increase the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular diseases.

And losing visceral fat is the key to avoiding weight regain! Therefore, from the perspective of maintaining health and weight loss nutrition, reducing excess visceral fat is very important for people's daily health care. Nutritionist Zhao Hanying pointed out that if you want to reduce visceral fat, there are three key factors that must be achieved:

 ◆關鍵1／飲食多攝取高膳食纖維食物：

It is recommended to keep in mind the dietary principles of high dietary fiber and more fruits and vegetables, and avoid high-fat diets as much as possible. In addition to enoki mushrooms, vegetables such as black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, and corn shoots are also good high-fiber ingredients.

 ◆關鍵2／多喝水提升代謝、燃脂率：

Drinking one kilogram of body weight times 35 to 40 cc of boiled water (about 2000 cc to 3000 cc) every day and not drinking sugary drinks is a good way to effectively improve your body's metabolism and help burn fat.

 ◆關鍵3／適度運動、消耗脂肪：

In addition to controlling your diet, since visceral fat is a type of deep fat, it is recommended that you develop a habit of doing aerobic exercise, preferably to the point where you are slightly out of breath.