Fat terminator! Enoki mushroom ice cubes are great in cooking

The Minor Cold in the 12 solar terms has just passed, and the temperature has started to drop. Are you used to eating hot pot to warm yourself up and ward off the cold, but are you worried about the greasy fat piling up on your body? A professor of anti-aging management medicine at Juntendo University in Japan pointed out that the "chitosan" in enoki mushrooms has the function of inhibiting fat absorption. In addition to boiling enoki mushrooms and eating them directly, making them into ice cubes can enhance the absorption ability. This article will teach you how to make your own enoki mushroom ice cubes. Next time you eat hot pot, you might as well add a few cubes to get rid of the annoying fat.

Flammulina velutipes contains chitosan, which can inhibit fat absorption, lower cholesterol and triglycerides.

In his book "To Be Beautiful and Live Long", Takuji Shirasawa, professor of anti-aging management medicine at Juntendo University in Japan, stated that Nakano City in Japan is a famous production area of ​​enoki mushrooms. The Nakano City Agricultural Association pioneered the "enoki mushroom ice cubes", which concentrate guanylate, the source of the flavor of enoki mushrooms. Adding enoki mushroom ice cubes to miso soup, hot pot or stir-fry can not only be used as a seasoning, but also has the effect of inhibiting bad cholesterol and reducing visceral fat.

Flammulina velutipes contains chitosan which can inhibit fat absorption

The most notable component of Flammulina velutipes is chitosan, a substance found in its cell walls. Generally speaking, when people mention chitosan, they will think of healthy foods extracted from crustaceans such as crabs and shrimps. However, Flammulina enoki mushrooms not only contain chitosan, but also β-glucan, fucose, arabinose, mannose and other polysaccharides that are beneficial to the human body.

One of the effects of Flammulina velutipes chitosan is that it can inhibit fat absorption. Chitosan is a high molecular fiber that is neither digested nor absorbed by the body. It is usually excreted from the body with feces after combining with the ingested fat in the stomach and intestines. Since the main characteristic of chitosan is that it contains positively charged amino groups, which is different from the general plant fiber or dietary fiber which is neutral or acidic, the ability of chitosan to eliminate fat is 5-10 times that of other natural cellulose.

In addition to preventing fat accumulation, it can also lower cholesterol and triglycerides

In addition to inhibiting fat absorption, chitosan also has the effect of lowering cholesterol. Chitosan can combine with bile acid and bile salts, making cholesterol no longer able to be absorbed, and can effectively lower cholesterol in the blood and liver.

An experiment on ice cubes of Flammulina enoki was conducted on 108 men and women in Nakano City, Japan. In the experiment, Nakano citizens were divided into two groups based on their body weight and average blood fat concentration. One group consumed 50 grams of enoki mushrooms every day for three months. Compared with the control group that did not consume enoki mushrooms, the triglycerides (neutral fat), low-density lipoprotein (LCL), and total fat in the blood of both men and women decreased.

You may want to add a few pieces of enoki mushroom ice cubes when eating hot pot to get rid of the annoying fat.

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The cell wall of Enoki mushroom is very tough. In order to make the effective ingredients in it easier to be absorbed, in addition to chewing slowly when eating Enoki mushroom, freezing and heating will destroy the cell wall of Enoki mushroom. Therefore, Enoki mushroom ice cubes can be said to be the easiest way to increase the absorption rate. You can also make it easily at home. Here is how to make your own Enoki mushroom ice cubes:

★【Enoki mushroom ice cubes】

Ingredients: 300g enoki mushrooms, 200cc water, ice box.

practice:

1. Cut off the roots of the enoki mushrooms and cut them into quarters.

2. Put the enoki mushrooms and water into a juicer and blend into a paste.

3. Put the mashed enoki mushrooms into the pot and heat it. Bring to a boil and then simmer on low heat for 1 hour. Pay special attention to stirring constantly during the stewing process to avoid burning.

4. After stewing for 1 hour, turn off the heat and let cool. Pour the cooled Enoki mushroom soup into an ice tray and place it in the freezer.

5. After freezing, take out the ice cubes and put them in the freezer for storage. They can be stored for about 3 months.

【Health Tips】:

Although eating Flammulina enoki mushrooms has many benefits, every 100 grams of Flammulina enoki mushrooms contains about 9 to 100 mg of purine, making it a medium-purine food. If you eat a lot of mushrooms without drinking enough water, it will easily increase the uric acid level in the blood. People with poor uric acid metabolism function are prone to gout. In addition, patients who already suffer from gout should strictly limit their intake of purine.