What is the healthiest way to eat edible fungi? Foreign researchers give you the answer

Edible mushrooms are recognized as "the meat of the vegetarian diet" because of their large amounts of dietary fiber, protein, amino acids, multivitamins and trace minerals, and are favored by dieters because they are low in fat and calories. However, what many people don't know is that the cooking method of edible mushrooms will greatly affect the composition of mushrooms and reduce nutrition. So what is the healthiest way to eat mushrooms?

Recently, researchers at the Research Center for Edible Mushrooms in La Rioja, Spain, have discovered the best way to cook edible mushrooms. The researchers assessed the effects of boiling, microwaving, grilling and frying the mushrooms separately. After cooking, the samples were freeze-dried and analyzed, and the results were compared to the original version, which led to the conclusion that the best way to cook edible mushrooms is to roast them (oven with olive oil over low heat) or microwave them. Because fried and boiled cooking methods can significantly reduce the antioxidant activity of mushrooms, especially fried mushrooms show a decrease in protein and carbohydrate content, but an increase in fat content, which is not good for health.

"Frying and boiling produced more severe losses in protein and antioxidant compounds, possibly due to leaching of soluble substances from water or oil, which could significantly affect the nutritional value of the final product," a researcher on the project said in a statement. indicated in.