Bright yellow, clean, crispy mushrooms - chanterelles. They got their name from the old Russian word "fox" - yellow. Like a fox, mushrooms are named for their color. Collecting chanterelles is a pleasure. Why?
Chanterelles are not wormy, they are noticeable, do not break and do not get wet in a basket (or even a bag), they are stored in cold for up to 10 days. And it's just delicious mushrooms.
Where and when do chanterelles find
Chanterelles appear in mid-June and delight mushroom pickers until the end of October. They live in families. If you come across such a "family", then from one glade you can pick up a decent basket. The ubiquitous chanterelles are found either in pine or mixed forests. They like places under old birches, all sorts of slopes, tubercles, soil disturbances. They really like places without grass. Either needles or fallen leaves. Often there are as if "buried" in the moss. These are amazing mushrooms: they don’t rot in the rain, they don’t dry in dry weather, they just grow more slowly and worms don’t eat them.
Why chanterelle mushrooms are not wormy. Is it possible to eat mushrooms that even worms “bypass”?
Not only possible, but also very useful. In chanterelles, they found an antiparasitic substance - D-mannose (a form of mannose polysaccharide found in nature). That's why chanterelles are never wormy. They are not to the taste of any bugs, worms, no parasites. Moreover, D-mannose dissolves the eggs of worms and helminths, perforates them. Under its influence, adults and eggs die.
Common chanterelle: unusually healing mushroom
The fact that chanterelles are never worms is the only reason - D-mannose in their composition. This substance allows you to talk about chanterelles as a medicine. But in order for chanterelles to be a medicine, they must be consumed dry or fresh. No heat treatment and no caustic treatment. Mannose is moody. And under the influence of temperature dies. But it is precisely its properties that explain why chanterelles are not wormy. To preserve the effect of mannose, chanterelle preparations are prepared at temperatures not exceeding 50 ° C.
According to the conclusion of the WHO (World Health Organization), eighty percent of diseases are caused by parasites and the effects of their life on the body. This refers to asthma, diabetes and many others. That is why chanterelles, which are not wormy mushrooms, are considered a universal remedy, a panacea for most diseases.
Another important substance in chanterelles is ergosterol, which is able to cleanse and restore the liver.
Chanterelles have a lot of vitamins and minerals:
- According to vitamin A, they surpassed carrots.
- For B vitamins, yeast was left behind.
- Contain vitamin C - the creator of connective tissue, a stimulant of immunity.
- Nicotinic acid (vitamin PP), which provides microcirculation, affects good blood flow in peripheral tissues. It relieves diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia.
- Zinc is indispensable in the work of the reproductive and nervous systems. Supports immunity. It has beneficial effects on the skin. This trace element is part of insulin. Zinc deficiency inhibits adrenal and thyroid function.
- Sulfur, forming sulfide bonds, creates a number of enzymes and vitamins that take part in various processes of the body, for example, in blood coagulation. Makes blood thicker.
Two more substances were found in chanterelles: K-10 polysaccharide and trametonolinic acid. They act on the hepatitis virus. Effective for hemangioma and fatty degeneration of the liver.
Chanterelles are used for vision correction, for the treatment of night blindness. They prevent aging, being a strong antioxidant and suppressing free radicals. In folk medicine, they are used for tonsillitis, pancreatic diseases, furunculosis and obesity.
Chanterelles "doubles"
Chanterelles - yellow, yellow-orange. The hat is darker, the leg is lighter. Collecting, they are easy to break. The hat is wavy, smooth only in young chanterelles. On the bottom of the mushroom there are not plates, but wrinkles (chanterelles are close to tinder fungi). Wrinkles go down the leg, imperceptibly passing into it. Very tasty mushroom.
False chanterelles (talkers) grow next to chanterelles. They are edible, only tasteless. The mushroom is lamellar. The records end very abruptly. The talker is not poisonous. There is no danger of poisoning.
You can confuse the chanterelle with the yellow hedgehog. There’s nothing to be afraid of. Hedgehog is not only not poisonous, it is considered a delicacy. His sign is that on the underside of the cap are not plates, but crumbling needles.
The benefits of chanterelles
Worms are not afraid of “doubles” of chanterelles. Why are chanterelles not worms? Maybe worms don't eat mushrooms because they are poisonous? Not at all. This is a far-fetched fear. Even in the pale toadstool dangerous for humans, the larvae of the mushroom mosquito feel great.
In humans, an insect and a parasite, metabolic mechanisms differ. The substances contained in the mushrooms, poisonous to humans, are not involved in the metabolic processes of protozoa. Conversely, chanterelle D-mannose is deadly for helminths and completely harmless to humans. What is good for a person is death for a helminth.
Moreover, mushrooms can be treated. Neither plants nor minerals became such a sensation as mushrooms. In Japan, treatment with mushrooms (fungotherapy) has been known since ancient times. Now it is becoming popular in Europe and in Russia. This science is called the future of modern pharmacology. And it turned out that most medicinal mushrooms grow in Russia.