Food mushrooms are known for their health nutriment.
They have only a slight quantity of carbohydrates, hardly any fat and a lot of healthy fibres and proteins.
They
have numerous minerals and are especially rich in vitamin B. All this can be said
also of harvested shiitake.
Shiitake is especially regarded in China and Japan as an exceptionally healthy mushroom. New western
research
has further strengthened this view.
Shiitake lowers blood cholesterol percentage. Increased blood colesterol in heart and bloodvessel desease
is an essential risk factor. The most critical of these are: coronary heart disease, stroke and other brain
circulation disturbances. The cholesterol decrease effect is caused by nutritional fibres from shiitake as well
as a combination of the mushrooms properties called eritadenine. Shiitake consists of lectine which prevents
blood
clots and protects the bloods circulation .
Nutritional fibres have also other progressive health effects. Additionally,in coronary heart desease it is know
that fibres prevent cancer in the large intestine and adult diabetes. Shiitake chitin fibres produce chitosan which
desperse
and decrease cholesterol levels in the blood. They also reduce blood sugar.
Our immune system protects us against infections which are caused by viruses and bacterias and it also prevents
cancers. Shiitake is effective in immune defence. This effect seems only to be characteristic of shiitake lentinanine
compound
and also of other mushroom types which contain nukleinacids.
Extract
of shiitake and compounds of shiitake have been tested succesfully and treated
for stomach cancer in Japan.
Shiitake mushroom has a good reputation for virility in Asia. This can be due to the fact that there are high quantities
of both linoliacid and zinc present in shiitake. Metabolism products of linoliacid expand blood veins by relaxing and
soothing
muscles while zinc is a necessary
trace element for producing mens hormones and sperm.