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- Medical Video: Breast cancer prevention: which mushroom is best?
- Get to know enoki mushrooms and their nutrients
- Enoki mushroom potential in preventing cancer, according to the study
Medical Video: Breast cancer prevention: which mushroom is best?
Have you ever seen a small yellowish white mushroom that looks like a hat with a hat? This unique Japanese mushroom is known as the Enoki mushroom. A study in Japan found that enoki mushrooms can prevent cancer which is a scourge for almost everyone. Is that right or not? Consider the following review.
Get to know enoki mushrooms and their nutrients
Enoki mushroom (golden mushroom) has the Latin name Flammulina velutipes or Flammulina populicola. Usually the enoki mushrooms grow in the winter near dead coniferous trees. In addition to growing in the wild, this mushroom is also cultivated by farmers. It's just that, these mushrooms have different shapes depending on where the mushrooms grow.
Mushrooms that grow in the wild look shorter and have bigger hats, while those cultivated by farmers are longer, brownish in size, with a slightly smaller cap.
Enoki mushrooms are one of the mushrooms that offer lots of nutrients. In 100 grams of dried enoki mushrooms, the nutritional content includes:
- 346 calories
- 53 percent carbohydrates (31 percent complex carbohydrates and 22 percent are other forms of sugar)
- 26 percent protein
- 26 percent of food fiber
- 3 percent fat (1 gram polyunsaturated fat, 1.2 grams of total unsaturated fat, and 0.23 grams of saturated fat)
- A number of vitamins and minerals such as 0.35 grams of thiamine, 10.9 grams of pantothenic acid, 61 mg of niacin, 1.67 mg of riboflavone, 14 mg of calcium, o, 61 copper, 8.3 mg of iron, 3,100 potassium, 54 mg, and 19 mg sodium.
In addition, Enoki mushrooms are also rich in antioxidants such as ergothioneines and soluble fiber which are effective in reducing the amount of bad cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, and reducing blood sugar levels in the body.
Enoki mushroom potential in preventing cancer, according to the study
In addition to being used as food, the enoki mushroom is the first mushroom to be researched for nutrition to prevent cancer. Reporting from the Huffington Post, the initial research was carried out by Dr. Tetsuke Ikekawa, an epidemiologist from the Research Institute of the National Cancer Center in Tokyo, Japan in 1989.
From the study Dr. Tetsuke Ikekawa saw that the death rate due to cancer in Nagano Prefecture, Japan was reduced, even becoming smaller than other regions. Ikekawa suspects that Nagano is the center of Enoki mushroom cultivation so the level of consumption of enoki mushrooms is also higher.
Then, further research found that the fact on Enoki mushrooms contained two compounds that are bound to proteins, namely profamin and flammulin. After testing, these two compounds showed better immune system activity against melanoma cancer than turkey tail fungus.
Other research published in the journal Scientific Immunology shows that enoki mushroom extract can increase the survival rate of mice infected with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), which is the main cause of cervical cancer. In addition, the content of three beta glucans is unique to the enoki mushrooms, galactose, mucosa, and mannose, which can also support immune cells.
The amount of research currently indeed shows the potential of enoki mushrooms in preventing cancer. However, more research is needed in humans about what and how much consumption of mushrooms can reduce mortality from cancer.
