What are truffles?
What Are the Benefits of Truffles?
When Are Truffles Found?
How Can You Find Truffles?
Where Can You Find Truffles?
What Are Truffles?
Truffles are one of the supreme luxuries in nature. Truffles are hypogenous (underground) types of mushrooms. They do not form a prominent stem and their surface is covered with spores. While they were originally confined to the wild, the past century has seen a considerable extent of research, into developing to cultivate them as the domestic crops. Although most truffles never break the surface of the soil, the ancient truffle hunters believed that the truffles grew when lightning hit the damp earth. Truffles are round, warty and irregular in shape, just like potatoes. Their size often varies from small to big.
Truffle mushrooms are a nutritious, energetic and delicious food. The highest amount of these mushrooms is consumed in restaurants, food industry, for preparation of various sauces and aromatic oils as well as pharmaceutical industries.
Some have called them “The Kitchen Diamonds”. Truffles are used in a chopped or grated form, together with eggs, to cook omelet; they may also be grilled. In all foods with mushrooms such as pizza, beans, soup, and fried mushroom, you can use truffles instead of mushrooms. They are comparable to caviar and are served only in high-quality and high-class restaurants by master chefs.
What Are the Benefits of Truffles?
Since the periods of Ancient Greeks and Romans, these types of mushrooms have being used in Europe as food, anti-depression medicine, and other drugs.
Truffles contain a variety of proteins, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Using truffles in the spring prevents a variety of diseases such as cold, and even may affect life-span. This type of mushroom has a significant effect on reducing the blood glucose level among diabetics, and on curing eye diseases. Many consider truffles to be effective in treating the effects of aging and improving sexual desire and call it a youth elixir. Antibiotic effects of truffles against microbes and pathogens, as well as their antioxidant effects against all types of cancer and also their effects on liver protection in liver disease have been proven. The mushroom contains a large amount of ergothioneine (a strong antioxidant), which, unlike other antioxidants, is not destroyed in the cooking process. Studies show that the using two cooked and hot mushrooms per a day can eliminate infection, enhance the immune system, and treat constipation and flatulence. There is a lot of scientific information about truffle on valid sites. For example, you can visit the following website:
www.globalfoodbook.com/9-top-notch-benefits-of-truffle
When Are Truffles Found?
Truffles fruit throughout the fall, winter, and spring, depending on species and locale. The truffles form in late summer and slowly ripe during autumn and are ready to be harvested in winter and spring. The season for most truffles falls between September and June, but our truffles’ season is from March to June.
We recommend that orders be announced and confirmed before the start of the harvest season (before spring), so that supplying, processing, producing and packaging of the products would be managed on time.
Truffles are among the world’s most expensive natural foods and the prices vary between $250 and $450 per pound.
How Can You Find Truffles?
The scent produced by truffles sometimes attracts mushroom-eating animals being larger than squirrels. Truffles are harvested in Europe with the aid of truffle-detecting female pigs or dogs that are able to detect the strong smell of ripen truffles underground. The female pig becomes excited when she sniffs a chemical that is similar to the scent of the male pig sexual hormone. Training pigs is risky because of their natural tendency to eat any edible thing. For this reason, dogs have been trained to dig the ground wherever they find these odors and they willingly exchange their truffle for a piece of bread and a pat on the head. More recently, dogs are preferred as truffle hunting companion because they can be trained to find, but not eat the truffles, and are much easier to get into a car. However, it is worth noting we never use pigs or dogs because we have a Trained-Truffle-Hunting Team. In fact, our big advantage is to use a professional and trained team because collecting truffles requires training and experience.
Where Can You Find Truffles?
Truffles are underground mushrooms that grow as a result of a symbiotic relationship of the roots of particular trees (such as oaks and hazelnuts) with the appropriate mycorrhiza (literally, mushroom root). Truffles can potentially be found almost anywhere next to trees. Only a few families of trees (such as maples and cedars) do not coexist with truffles.
They live in close mycorrhizal association with the roots of specific trees and their fruiting bodies grow underground.
Truffles have been found in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and North America. On the desert after rainfall, knowledgeable Middle Eastern people collect the black truffle, so-called “Terfezia bouderi”, and the brown truffle, called “Terfezia claveryi”. They prefer the darker ones. In Texas, Tuber texensis, and in Oregon, the white Tuber gibbosum are collected. However, only three species are commercially important.
Since the periods of Ancient Greeks and Romans, these types of mushrooms have being used in Europe as food, anti-depression medicine, and other drugs.
Truffles contain a variety of proteins, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Using truffles in the spring prevents a variety of diseases such as cold, and even may affect life-span. This type of mushroom has a significant effect on reducing the blood glucose level among diabetics, and on curing eye diseases. Many consider truffles to be effective in treating the effects of aging and improving sexual desire and call it a youth elixir. Antibiotic effects of truffles against microbes and pathogens, as well as their antioxidant effects against all types of cancer and also their effects on liver protection in liver disease have been proven. The mushroom contains a large amount of ergothioneine (a strong antioxidant), which, unlike other antioxidants, is not destroyed in the cooking process. Studies show that the using two cooked and hot mushrooms per a day can eliminate infection, enhance the immune system, and treat constipation and flatulence. There is a lot of scientific information about truffle on valid sites. For example, you can visit the following website:
www.globalfoodbook.com/9-top-notch-benefits-of-truffle
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