Since ancient times, people eat champignons. In the past, no one particularly paid attention to these mushrooms. People just cooked them because of the good taste. Today, many people take care of their health. Questions about the benefits and harms of champignons and how these mushrooms can be cooked are becoming increasingly relevant.
The benefits and composition of champignons
Among people, opinions about the usefulness of mushrooms differ. Someone over-exaggerating the nutritional value of mushrooms, and someone even considers them harmful or simply unnecessary for the human body. Both that and other point of view is incorrect. The product is able to bring both benefit and harm. In mushrooms, champignons useful properties are due to the composition, nutritional value. The product can have a negative effect on the body of those people who are completely contraindicated in mushrooms due to existing diseases.
What is the nutritional value of this product? It is determined by the composition of the mushrooms. Fresh mushrooms, like vegetables, contain a significant amount of water - about 91%. The amount of protein attracts particular attention. There are more of them than in vegetables - 4.3%. In mushrooms, in comparison with plant products, there is also more fat - 1%. But carbohydrates in mushrooms are less - 0.1%.
The presence of vitamins
Champignons contain a number of vitamins. The most significant of them are:
- B5. Mushrooms can satisfy the human body by 42% with this vitamin. Normally, people need 5 mg of vitamin B5 daily. In 100 g of mushrooms, its amount is 2.1 mg.
- PP When eating mushrooms, this vitamin is supplied in sufficient quantities. The body needs to normally receive 20 mg. In champignons, the amount of vitamin PP is 5.6 mg. This is 28% of the norm.
- B2. There is not much of this vitamin in champignons - only 0.45 mg, but at the same time this amount satisfies the need of the human body for this compound by 25%.
Each of these vitamins plays a role. B5 is needed in protein, carbohydrate, fat metabolism. He is involved in the production of certain hormones, hemoglobin. Vitamin PP is used by the body in redox reactions of energy metabolism, and B2 has a positive effect on vision.
Macro and microelements
Champignons are a source of not only vitamins, but also macro-, microelements:
- cobalt (15 mcg - 150% of the norm);
- chromium (13 mcg - 26% of the norm);
- potassium (530 mg - 21.2% of the norm);
- phosphorus (115 mg - 14.4% of the norm);
- iodine (18 mcg - 12% of the norm).
Cobalt is involved in the process of hematopoiesis. Chromium regulates the level of glucose in the blood, enhances the action of insulin. Normalization of water balance, maintenance of acid-base balance, regulation of pressure, and conduction of nerve impulses depend on potassium. Phosphorus is known for being essential for the mineralization of bones and teeth. Iodine determines the normal functioning of the thyroid gland. Mushrooms also contain calcium, magnesium, sodium, chlorine, iron, molybdenum, fluorine, zinc. However, these macro- and microelements are very few. The need of the human body for these substances is not satisfied even by 10%.
Benefits for men and women
Available vitamins, macro- and microelements in champignon positively affect all organs. The reproductive system in men is also affected. The beneficial properties of champignons are that when you use mushrooms, it reduces the likelihood of impotence. From anatomy it is known that an erection occurs when the blood vessels of the penis, cavernous bodies are filled with blood. With increased sugar, the vessels do not perform their function properly, since they are narrowed. In mushrooms, there is chromium, which regulates the level of glucose.
Women can see the positive effect of mushrooms when using cosmetics made with their own hands from mushrooms. A natural remedy replenishes the natural resources of the skin, due to the presence of useful compounds it accelerates the processes of cell recovery, gives a rejuvenating effect.
The negative side of mushrooms
Mushrooms are regarded by experts as a hard-to-digest product. This negative property is inherent in mushrooms due to the significant content of fiber in them, which is saturated with chitin. The last compound in champignons performs a protective and supporting function, provides cell rigidity. In the human body, it is not digested. An additional harm of champignons - chitin makes it difficult for digestive juices to access. This ultimately affects the digestibility of mushrooms.
Due to the difficult digestion, champignons and various dishes from them can only be eaten by healthy people. Mushrooms can cause harm in the presence of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and kidneys. It is also not recommended to give champignons to children under 7 years of age. In babies, the body is not yet fully formed; it cannot fully digest and assimilate mushroom dishes.
Champignon Tips
Mushrooms can be stewed, boiled, fried, pickled. Some people eat them raw. It does no harm to health. The raw mushrooms have a maximum benefit of mushrooms, because it’s no secret to anyone that during heat treatment certain substances and compounds can be destroyed.
When preparing meals, it is recommended to combine mushrooms with easily digestible vegetables. It can be, for example, potatoes or something else. Thanks to easily digestible vegetables, the body digests mushrooms better.
Experts advise buying champignons in stores. What is on the shelves is a safe product that has grown under artificial conditions. It is undesirable to collect mushrooms champignons on their own. Both wild benefits can bring benefit and harm. The benefit is the presence of vitamins, macro- and microelements (as in artificially grown mushrooms). The harm is due to several reasons. Firstly, an inexperienced person can confuse them with some poisonous mushrooms. Secondly, the environment is polluted. Harmful substances with rain fall into the ground or on mushrooms, penetrate into them. As a result, such mushrooms are not very useful for humans.
Salad recipe
A dish of mushrooms invented a huge amount. One of them is a fresh mushroom salad. To prepare mushrooms with properties that are beneficial to the human body, take:
- about 300 g of mushrooms;
- 1 tbsp. l butter;
- 2 boiled eggs;
- 2 tomatoes;
- 1 apple
- 0.5 cups of sour cream;
- 2 tbsp. l olive oil;
- freshly squeezed juice from half a lemon;
- a bunch of dill;
- salt and granulated sugar - at your discretion.
Fresh champignons are crushed and fried in oil until tender, and then cooled, spread in a deep cup. The following layers are cut eggs, tomatoes, apple. For salad dressing, sour cream is mixed with olive oil, juice, salt and sugar. This mixture is poured on top of the dish. Top salad is decorated with greens. The dish turns out delicious, satisfying. It is easy to prepare, so each hostess should add this recipe to her personal cookbook.
First course
Champignons can benefit the human body in soup. Cook it with meat. Simple products required:
- 200 g of veal or beef on the bone;
- 1 liter of water;
- 2 carrots;
- 150 g raw mushrooms;
- 1 onion;
- 1 tbsp. l margarine;
- 1 tbsp. l flour;
- salt and pepper - at your discretion;
- 1 tbsp. l sour cream;
- bunch of dill.
A piece of meat is boiled until tender in the indicated amount of water. Carrots, mushrooms and onions are cut and stewed in a frying pan on margarine. Shortly before cooking, add flour and cooked meat, cut into pieces. The products are stewed for some time, then transferred to the broth and cook for 10 minutes. At the end of the dish, salt and pepper. When serving, the soup is seasoned with sour cream and chopped dill. Some hostesses still decorate the dish with sprigs of parsley.
Second course
From mushrooms combining the benefits and harms of champignon mushrooms, you can very quickly cook cutlets using the minimum amount of ingredients - 500 g raw mushrooms, 200 g bread slice, 2 eggs, salt, pepper, crackers. Mushrooms are washed, and the bread is slightly soaked. Next, these ingredients are scrolled through a meat grinder. Raw eggs are broken in them. To taste, salt and pepper. The resulting mixture was thoroughly mixed. Small cakes are formed from it and crumble them. Ready mushroom cutlets are fried in a pan in boiling oil. After roasting, they are placed for 1 minute in the oven.
Another option of the second dish is mushrooms fried with potatoes in sour cream. The main products are 100 g of potatoes and 200 g of champignons. Additional ingredients in this recipe are 10 g butter, 1 tbsp. l flour, 50 g sour cream and 30 g onions, seasonings. First, the potatoes are fried until cooked. Sliced mushrooms are added to it. At the end, put flour, sour cream, onions, salt and pepper and continue to boil until cooked for about 5-10 minutes.
Mushroom pies
Many families love pies. Traditionally they are cooked with mashed potatoes, meat, eggs, cabbage. All of these fillings are helpful. Mushrooms champignons are also able to benefit the body. Such stuffing and the pies themselves can be harmful only to people with gastrointestinal diseases, while banning the use of fried foods. Required Products:
- 1.5 kg of potatoes;
- 1 kg of raw mushrooms;
- 3 raw eggs;
- 1 onion;
- salt, pepper - at your discretion;
- some vegetable oil for frying;
- finished yeast dough.
The tubers are peeled, washed and boiled. When the potatoes are ready, water is drained from the pan. Then there are 2 options. Potatoes can be scrolled through a meat grinder or mashed in a nibble. Eggs are broken into the finished puree to obtain the desired taste.
The champignons, which store both the benefits and the harm to humans, are washed, cut into small pieces and fried. Next, the mushrooms are scrolled through a meat grinder. Mushrooms from champignons are mixed with mashed potatoes. The onion is finely chopped, fried in a pan and transferred to a container with mashed potato, mushroom, salt and pepper. The mixture is thoroughly mixed. The finished filling is placed in rolled dough cakes, pinch and fry the resulting cakes in a pan in vegetable oil.
Some cooking tips
And finally, some tips for cooking ... Champignons have a peculiar gentle smell and a light, slightly sour taste. It is very important in their preparation to be careful when adding spicy smelling spices. Such seasonings can spoil the dish, worsen its taste.
A very unpleasant situation arises when, during the preparation of a dish, peeled champignons begin to lose their appearance - it darkens. In order not to encounter this, it is recommended to put the mushrooms in water slightly acidified with citric acid or lemon.
In conclusion, it is worth noting that champignons and useful properties combine, and contraindications. But contraindications are just a small list of conditions. If there are no health problems, then mushrooms can be safely consumed. The existence of a huge number of recipes allows you to cook this product in different ways.