Is Cordyceps nutritional equivalent to mushrooms?

Market: the price of Cordyceps is twice that of gold The legend of blood swallow has just been pierced Cordyceps is immediately connected, ranking in the forefront of the price leap Award for nearly two years According to the Beijing Morning Post, the retail price of Cordyceps with higher specifications was more than 600 yuan per gram, equivalent to 600000 yuan per kilogram, in the retail markets in Beijing and other places before, which was crazy Public information shows that the wholesale price of Cordyceps sinensis with good quality in Lhasa market in Tibet has exceeded 200000 yuan per kilogram, while the retail price in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai and other places is more than 700 yuan per gram, twice the price of gold At the economic working conference of Tibet Autonomous Region held on December 26, 2011, the Tibet Autonomous Region released the data that the Cordyceps production in Tibet in 2011 was 45000 kg, worth 3 billion yuan As the largest province in China, Qinghai Province, whose Cordyceps production accounted for 70% - 80% of the national production, according to the statistics of local agricultural departments, only the annual turnover amount of Cordyceps trading market in diligent lane of Xining City Up to 10 billion yuan Laws and regulations: Cordyceps should not be used as food raw material Dong Liangjie, an environmental expert at the University of Hawaii, quoted the data from the International Journal of medicinal fungi on his microblog He believed that the nutritional value of Cordyceps is mainly amino acid, vitamin E, B1 and B12, and the medicinal value is under study However, the underlying rule of the whole industry is that wild Cordyceps generally add metal to increase weight In the past, it used to wear iron wire, which can be detected by magnets; now it is filled with lead powder and tin bar, which can not be detected by hotels It is common for wild Cordyceps sinensis to add heavy metal lead and tin solder Now it has developed to lead powder which cannot be distinguished by naked eyes, so "stewed Cordyceps may be a pot of lead soup" The safety of Cordyceps has always been in doubt, and the relevant state departments expressly prohibit the sale of Cordyceps as food According to the public information, the State Administration of traditional Chinese medicine once specially organized experts to discuss At present, Cordyceps sinensis is lack of safety evaluation research data for long-term use as food, so it is recommended not to be used as food raw materials temporarily The health supervision center of the Ministry of health also stressed that Cordyceps sinensis can be used as traditional Chinese medicine, but it has not been approved as a common food raw material In December 2010, the General Administration of quality supervision, inspection and Quarantine of the people's Republic of China (AQSIQ) issued the notice on Cordyceps sinensis not allowed to be used as common food raw materials to produce common food However, although the quality inspection department limits the use of Cordyceps sinensis, the agricultural department supports it vigorously It is reported that the Northern cordyceps project of the Cordyceps research group of the Institute of plant protection, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences was included in the 2007 National Spark plan project and the 2007 Annual Key Project Application guide at the same time; from 2003 to 2005, the Cordyceps research group of the Institute of plant protection, Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences was also supported by the achievement transformation project of the Ministry of science and technology From June 28 to July 4, 2010, the grassland supervision center of the Ministry of agriculture went to Sichuan Province to investigate the resources of Cordyceps sinensis At the end of last year, the "international Cordyceps research and information center" was established, which is attached to the grassland supervision center of the Ministry of agriculture of China In addition, the sub centers of India, Bhutan and Nepal will be established in succession Expert: is the nutritional value of Cordyceps equivalent to mushrooms? But in any case, what consumers are most concerned about about is whether caterpillar fungus is useful or not, and do not eat it? In this regard, some experts believe that the medicinal value of Cordyceps is the same as that of ordinary mushrooms It is the gift attribute that pushes up the price of Cordyceps Moreover, the current publicity and hype of Cordyceps caters to the social psychology of people's pursuit of health care and value-added wealth, which greatly intensifies the price rise of Cordyceps Cordyceps is equivalent to mushrooms, not necessarily accurate Some Chinese doctors believe that Cordyceps, ginseng and pilose antler are listed as the three tonics in China It is the only traditional Chinese medicine that can balance and regulate Yin and Yang at the same time Although modern research shows that its nutritional composition is almost the same as that of common edible fungi, its active substances with certain therapeutic effect still have value that other fungi cannot compare "It's just exaggerated." Scientific squirrels will introduce that Cordyceps is the formation of bat moth larvae infected by Cordyceps Some cell and animal experiments show that it has the effect of lowering blood sugar and inhibiting cancer cells, but it has not been proved by human clinical experiments Cordycepin (3-deoxyadenosine), also known as mannitol, which is the main active component of cordycepin, has been industrialized for a long time Mannitol has also been widely used in medicine It is a good diuretic and high permeability antihypertensive drug, which is often used in clinical rescue, especially in the rescue of brain diseases It is also used in food Mannitol is the raw material of food antisticking powder, and it can also be used as a sweetener with low calorific value and low sugar, such as food for diabetics and bodybuilding food It can be said that the active ingredients of Cordyceps need not be obtained from Cordyceps at all, and people will eat a lot of them unintentionally every day Consumption guidance Cordyceps four means of counterfeiting and red swallow, Cordyceps also exist dyeing and weight gain industry potential rules Zhang Xiaofeng, deputy director of Qinghai food and drug administration, introduced to the media that the annual demand of the whole Cordyceps market is 500 tons, but the actual output is only 15 tons The forgery phenomenon in the Cordyceps market is worrying There are four ways to make Cordyceps: first, add alum to the authentic Cordyceps to increase weight and adulterate The adulterer soaked the Cordyceps sinensis in alum to make the surface of the grass have a layer of milky white, which plays a role of weight gain after solidification 2、 Pretend to be Cordyceps with other kinds of Cordyceps Some people pretend to be Cordyceps sinensis with Cordyceps asiatica and Cordyceps Xinjiang which are wild in Hunan, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Anhui and other places 3、 The cultured mycelium of Cordyceps sinensis is used to make nutritional supplements, which pretend to be natural and wild Cordyceps sinensis nutritional supplements 4、 Use flour, corn flour, starch, gypsum and other materials, use a special Cordyceps mold to press into a model, and then color it to dry, pretending to be authentic Cordyceps sales Wang Xiaofei, who runs the Tibetan drugstore, said that Cordyceps is a naturally growing fungus, so it is impossible to have uniform color, and it is impossible that each one grows the same Some dyed and processed Cordyceps will have uniform color, so pay attention to observation when purchasing In addition, generally speaking, a large full caterpillar fungus is the best, and it must be complete In general, there are eight pairs of feet on the body of Cordyceps, and the four pairs in the middle should be particularly prominent, which is a good quality Cordyceps.