What is the latest black truffle?

Black truffle is a wild edible fungus growing underground. It is also called truffle, non-mother fruit, etc. Its appearance is rugged, its color is between dark brown and black, it is small convex shape, and its texture is gray or light black and white. Its smell is special and indescribable. Some people describe it as mushroom, garlic, rotten leaves, wetland, fermented corn, pickled cabbage, honey, gas, wet straw, cheese, cinnamon, moose fragrance, and like sheets that have not been washed for years. It has even been described as having a semen-like smell and is known to be found mainly in the Alps and a few areas of the Himalayas.

Black truffles are very picky about their growing environment. As long as there is a slight change in sunlight, moisture or soil pH, they cannot grow. They are the only delicacy in the world that cannot be planted neatly and orderly. Truffles grow under one tree, but another tree that looks exactly the same next to it does not, and it is still unclear why. Unlike mushrooms and other common fungi, truffle spores are not spread by wind, but by animals that nibble on truffles, mainly growing under pine, oak, hazel, beech and orange trees, because truffles cannot carry out photosynthesis and cannot survive independently. They must obtain nutrients through symbiotic relationships with certain roots.

Black truffles usually mature from November to March, usually the best season is between December and March. The truffle hunters are called truffle hunters, and each truffle hunter has a family treasure map that records where, when, and how big his parents found truffles. The truffle hunt is interesting, and the methods used by hunters vary from country to country. In France, people used to harvest black truffles sow right-hand man, sow's sense of smell is extremely sensitive, in 6 meters away can smell buried in 25 cm to 30 cm deep underground truffles.

Black truffle is rich in protein, 18 kinds of amino acids (including 8 kinds of essential amino acids that cannot be synthesized by human body), unsaturated fatty acids, multiple vitamins, zinc, manganese, iron, calcium, phosphorus, selenium and other essential trace elements, as well as sphingolipids, cerebrosides, ceramides, triterpenes, androsterone, adenosine, truffle acid, sterols, truffle polysaccharides, truffle polypeptides and other metabolites, which have extremely high nutritional and health value. Male ketone which helps yang, endocrine conditioning significant effect. The sphingolipid compounds have significant activity in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis and antitumor cytotoxicity. Polysaccharide, polypeptide and triterpene have the effects of enhancing immunity, resisting aging and fatigue, and can be used for health care.

The taste of black truffles is very strange. Mushrooms, garlic, wet mud, honey, corn, bugs, rotten leaves, etc. have been used to describe truffle fragrance. Some people often say that they emit musk, semen and unwashed bed sheets. Even professional scents describe it as gasoline mixed with some garlic and rotten eggs. Of course, some leaves accumulate and ferment in forest wetlands, mixed with a trace of yeast and honey. What is the taste? Everyone's conclusions are different.

For the past two thousand years, black truffles have only been found in the southern Alps of Europe in the world, which is the main reason why Chinese people are unfamiliar with black truffles. At the end of the last century, Chinese scientists discovered the distribution of black truffles in the southeastern region of the Himalayas, which shocked the whole world. Since then, Chinese black truffles have been exported exclusively. In recent years, the folk application of truffle production areas shows that in fact, in the folk areas of Tibetan, Yi and other ethnic minorities in southwest China, black truffle, which has been called "Wuniang Fruit" for hundreds of years, has long been used by local mountain people to enhance physical strength, improve sexual ability, regulate women's menstrual blood, etc. It is said that the effect is excellent.