Mistakes when processing wood ear make delicious dishes “deadly poison”

Although wood ear is a safe and non-toxic food, when soaked in the wrong way, they can create “poisons” that are incalculably dangerous to health.

Wood ear is a very familiar dish in the rice tray of Vietnamese people. This is a food that provides many nutrients for health. In modern medicine, eating wood ear in moderate doses, regularly is very good to reduce blood clots, prevent arterial occlusion due to thrombosis, help tonify blood, prevent anemia caused by iron deficiency, beautify the skin…

Although wood ear is a safe and non-toxic food, when soaked in the wrong way, they can create incalculable dangers to health.

Mistakes when processing wood ear

Soak wood ear mushrooms for too long

When soaked in water, wood ear will help dissolve toxins and make food safer. But, soaking for too long will cause the wood ear to degenerate, potentially causing poisoning.

Wood ear soaked for many days easily degrades and produces aflatoxin – this is a mycotoxin that causes liver cancer and damages liver tissue.

Wood ear soaked for a long time will be degraded because the protein is hydrolyzed just like meat left for a long time to rot, making it easy for bacteria to attack and cause infection. Eating infected wood ear fungus is a very high risk of poisoning. At a mild level, the patient will show symptoms of abdominal pain, nausea, and diarrhea. In severe cases can cause coma requiring emergency hospital admission.

To avoid poisoning, people should only soak dried wood ear mushrooms in cold water for about 15-20 minutes and wash and cut off the legs before processing.

Soak wood ear with hot water

Because they want wood ear to bloom quickly before processing, some people often soak wood ear with hot water. However, this is completely wrong. The reason why not soak wood ear fungus in hot water is because the morpholine component left in a little dried wood ear is toxic. Therefore, it needs to be soaked in cold water for the poison to be dissolved in the water. On the other hand, during processing, wood ear soaked with hot water will become soft, sticky, difficult to preserve.

Use fresh wood ear mushrooms

Wood ear that we use should be dried wood ear because fresh products contain light-sensitive morpholine, after eating it is easy to cause itching, edema, more serious can lead to skin necrosis.

On the contrary, this photosensitive substance will be lost when wood ear is dried, so wood ear should only be used when it has been thoroughly dried.

People who should not eat wood ear

Pregnant women

Although black fungus has the effect of nourishing the spleen, but at the same time, it also has the effect of activating blood and stasis, so it is not beneficial to the growth and stability of the fetus, so it should not be eaten. In particular, wood ear has smooth welding properties, so it is not suitable for pregnant women in the first 3 months because it is easy to cause miscarriage.

Poor digestion

Because wood ear has welding and yin properties, people who have loose stools outside, people who are full of stomach, people infected with cold, etc. should not eat wood ear to avoid the case that the disease will get worse.

People with allergies

Because wood ear fungus is also a fungus, it must be used with caution, to avoid the risk of allergies, especially for people with allergic conditions and young children.