What is useful boletus

Coniferous forests are presented to us during the summer-autumn mushroom season as a gift in the form of beautiful mushrooms - butter. They are deservedly popular with lovers of "quiet hunting" for its excellent taste and good yield.

Boletus mushrooms

Maslata got its name because of the sticky oily cap. They grow in groups. In nature, there are about 50 varieties of this fungus. Their habitat is not only Eurasia, but also Africa and Australia.

A common form in which the cap has a hemispherical shape with a tubercle at the crown. She is dark brown (different shades depending on the type) color with sticky skin that separates easily from the pulp. The body of the fungus is juicy, soft, has a yellow color.

The leg has a cylindrical shape with a white bedspread near the cap, which turns dark brown when the mushroom overrides.

An oil can grows among pines or in mixed forests. Harvesting falls on July-October. There are inedible species.They differ in that they change color at the break, they have a darker cap and a red spongy layer.

The composition of oil: calories, nutritional value, vitamins and minerals

Most of the oil contains protein - 2.4%, fat - 0.7%, carbohydrates - 0.5%, dietary fiber - 1.2%, ash - 0.5% and water - 83.5%. It should be noted that the calorie oil is low. The energy value of 100 g of the product is 19 kcal.

Also, these mushrooms contain many vitamins and trace elements. In parentheses are the percentage of the daily intake of the body when eating 100 g oil.

The oils contain vitamins: B1 (1.8%), B2 (14.3%), B6 ​​(15%), B9 (7.5%), D (26%), nicotinic (33%) and ascorbic (13.3%) acids

and trace elements: potassium (2.4%), silicon (6.9%), phosphorus (2.9%), boron (2.1%), cadmium (86%), iron (5.2%), copper (145, 6%), rubidium (225.8%), lead (40%), silver (35.7%), selenium (10.8%), chromium (10.5%), cesium (96.4%), zinc (116.7%).

Each of the vitamins is involved in redox reactions occurring in the human body, and plays a significant role in the normalization of the functioning of its systems.

For example, vitamin B2 maintains the normal state of the skin, mucous membranes, and its lack provokes a violation of light and twilight vision.

Vitamin B6 is involved in the normal functioning of the central nervous system, the formation of blood and skin. The first sign of a lack of vitamin B6 is a decrease in appetite.

Vitamin C boosts immunity, promotes the absorption of iron. The lack of this vitamin contributes to the permeability and fragility of the blood capillaries, which causes bleeding gums and nosebleeds.

Useful properties of oil

Butters are a product with excellent taste, and versatile when used in cooking. They can be prepared as you like: pickled, fried, stewed, salted, as an addition to the main dishes and as a main ingredient. Since they have a lot of water in their composition, they are rarely used for drying.

They also have many positive properties. First, protein, which is the basis of butter, is a good substitute for meat dishes. This is important for vegetarians. Also, mushrooms contain many vitamins and trace elements necessary for humans.

Secondly, the oil contains unique elements that help fight diseases and monitor the proper functioning of the body.For example, lecithin - prevents the formation of cholesterol, aphrodisiacs - increases vitality and reduces fatigue and depression, polyphenols and tocopherols - show antioxidant activity, citric, succinic and fumaric acids are important for energy metabolism, beta-glucan - shows an anti-inflammatory effect.

An important feature of the oil, like all mushrooms, is the ability to accumulate minerals. These are macro- and microelements, which is valuable, but also these are heavy metals, nitrates and nitrites, which are dangerous to humans.

The use of oil in medicine

With the purpose of treatment in the diet include dishes made from butter, take infusions, tinctures and powder.

In medicine, the paints treat gout, organs of vision, allergic diseases, diabetes, metabolic disorders, heart and vascular diseases, nervous exhaustion, reduced mental processes, stress, chronic fatigue, depression, reduced potency, osteoporosis.

Biologically active substances, which are contained in boletus, have antiviral, antitumor, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory effects.

Scientists have proven the benefits of oil for the human body. The methanol extract of these fungi causes the death of breast cancer cells and inhibits the growth of gastric and leukemia cancer cells.

For gout, it is necessary to eat butter regularly. They contain resinous compounds that have a therapeutic effect. Moreover, these compounds are preserved even when pickling mushrooms.

When migraines use powder from dry oil.

Scientists have proven that boletus have antibiotic activity. Therefore, aqueous extracts can have effects like levomycetin, streptomycin.

Useful tincture of oilher recipe is simple. Fresh crushed mushrooms are poured into a 1-liter jar, poured with vodka and insisted in a dark place for 14 days. After that, the raw material is squeezed, and the infusion is filtered.

Take 2 times a day before meals, spreading 1 tsp. tincture in 50 ml of water. Tincture helps with pain in the joints (used externally and internally), with headaches, gout.

For the treatment of psoriasis, it is necessary to place the mushrooms, unwashed with sticky films, in a jar, close the capron lid and leave for 20 days in a cool dark place. Dark liquid that has formed, it is necessary to lubricate the diseased skin.

Since mushrooms are low-calorie and heavily digestible foods, they can help with weight loss. Dishes from mushrooms long retain a sense of satiety.

In cosmetology use infusion of oil as a lotion. It has a tonic, anti-inflammatory effect. Mushroom powder is added to face masks.

Extract from the oil used for embalming tel.

Harmful properties of oil and contraindications

It should not be forgotten that boilers, like all mushrooms, are heavy foods.This is facilitated by the slow breakdown of proteins found in mushrooms. Also included in the composition chitin. It adversely affects the digestion of all food by the body. Therefore, it is dangerous to take boiled oil in large quantities because of their harmful properties.

When collecting mushrooms, remember that they can absorb radioactive elements and carcinogens from the soil. Therefore, collect them away from the highways and plants that dump chemical waste. And before cooking mushrooms better to boil.

The risk groups for which restrictions are shown in eating butter include:

• children (it is strictly forbidden!);
• pregnant women;
• people with chronic diseases of the digestive tract, liver, pancreas, gall bladder.

Collecting oil in the forest, you should all be aware of their nutritional and medicinal value and contraindications, so that their consumption will only benefit the body.