Cep (Boletus Edulis)

Product: frozen cep, different diametres; Production: Russia, China

Cep (Boletus Edulis)

Description.

Cap boletus edulis diameter 4-12, at first hemispherical, then flat, the edge is sometimes a little wrapped up. The surface is dry, light-brown to brown in color (dark brown, brown, dark brown with a purple tinge, reddish-brown, beige, green, yellow). In mature mushroom top cap is darker than the young, low — yellow, yellow-green or yellowish-green, young — pure white.
The stem of a white mushroom 5-15 cm long or more, 3-8 cm in diameter, the base of thickened, often inflated, thick, pale yellow or light brown, with a grid pattern, a more dense to the top or middle.
Flesh white mushroom dense, bright colors on the fracture does not change.
White mushroom grows in the dry, sparse birch groves, pine forests (white pine mushroom), of oak and fir forests (cep spruce). In Russia, grows mainly in European, North-western zone (including in the Leningrad region), in Western Siberia and the Caucasus. Gather to late autumn.

Properties.

Cep use fresh, frozen, dried, pickled, salted and canned form, used for preparation of powder and extract. Both fresh and frozen white mushroom — delicious, aromatic product, rich and vitamins, valuable for human organism. Fresh and frozen white mushroom contains a group of vitamin D, which are necessary in the treatment of rickets, wounds, burns, arthritis, skin diseases and disorders of the digestive system.
In the fresh and frozen white mushroom found protivoopuholnye substances and antibiotics, mortally affecting the tubercle bacillus. It is believed that the systematic use of fresh or frozen white fungus in food prevents the development of certain gastrointestinal diseases.