Yellow-red row
There are many types of rowing. Most of them are edible. Some have healing properties. The yellow-red row is a beautiful and useful species that has been used in cooking and traditional medicine for a long time.
Yellow-red row
The appearance of the mushroom
Rowing yellow-red is popularly called ryadovka red, blushing or pine honey. The species grows in small families in coniferous forests on stumps and trunks of dead trees.
Mushroom pickers harvest the variety from July to October. Only young mushrooms are suitable for food.
The description will help to recognize the mushroom:
- the cap is initially convex, flattens with age, its diameter is 5-15 cm;
- the color of the cap is orange-yellow, pink-yellow, sometimes a purple tint is possible;
- the surface of the cap is matte, covered with brownish scales;
- plates under the cap are wide, frequent, golden in color;
- the flesh is fleshy, sweet in young representatives, bitter in old ones, has a slightly sour smell;
- the leg is cylindrical, 4-10 cm long, 0.5-2 cm in girth, sometimes thickening from below;
- the color of the leg is yellowish, the surface is covered with red-brown scales;
- old fruiting bodies have hollow legs.
Irina Selyutina (Biologist):
The ryadovka yellow-red, unlike many other species of the genus, belongs to the group of saprophytes: like mushrooms for their development, they use dead wood, pine pine. This species is widespread in the temperate zone, bears fruit from July to the end of October and forms families of 3-4 mushrooms.
The pulp is characterized by a juicy yellow color, somewhat bitter and has a sour smell of rotten wood.
According to the external description, the reddening ryadovka looks like poisonous brick-red mushrooms. Plates of a toxic type are greenish-yellow, gradually blacken with age, the cap has a bell-shaped shape, which changes to rounded in adult specimens.
Beneficial features
Row reddening contains a lot of protein, vitamins, natural antibiotics clitocin and fomecin, which are able to fight both bacteria and malignant neoplasms. The chemical composition determines a number of beneficial properties of the fruiting body:
- anti-inflammatory;
- antioxidant;
- immunostimulating;
- anti-cancer;
- disorders of the nervous system;
- normalization of blood pressure, etc.
The use of the product has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, improves the body's resistance to various types of stress. The beneficial properties of the mushroom variety are the subject of scientific research.
Contraindications to use
Only young mushrooms are suitable for consumption.
Despite the usefulness, not everyone is allowed to eat the mushroom variety. The main contraindications:
- children under 7 years of age;
- the period of pregnancy and breastfeeding;
- diseases of the stomach and intestines in the acute phase of the course;
- renal and hepatic impairment;
- low acidity;
- pancreatitis and cholecystitis.
It is not safe to eat old red mushrooms.It is forbidden to collect fruit bodies near industrial enterprises, highways, garbage dumps: the mycelium quickly absorbs toxins.
Rows collected in violation of the rules can provoke poisoning. The main symptoms are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, headache. The condition is treated by cleaning the stomach, taking sorbents and probiotics as prescribed by a doctor.
Row application
Red rows are underestimated by man. They received an average quality rating. They are rarely used in cooking. The medical use of fruiting bodies is being studied at the world level.
In cooking
Rows can only be eaten after preliminary cooking. The collected fruit bodies are boiled in clean water for 10-15 minutes. The nutritional value does not suffer from cooking, but the taste improves.
Irina Selyutina (Biologist):
Ryadovka yellow-red belongs to conditionally edible mushrooms and 4 categories according to taste. Due to its inherent unpleasant bitter taste and sour smell, it is recognized as an inedible species in a number of countries.
By the way. Only young rows are used for food.
After cooking, the fungi are eaten, pickled or salted for the winter. They are also added to soups. Fruit bodies are not suitable for drying. Mushrooms are a good substitute for meat in a vegetarian diet.
In medicine
The yellow-red ryadovka contains fomecin B, which has an effect on cancer cells and completely suppresses the development of cancer cells, which experts refer to as MDCK, HeLa and FL lines. Polysaccharides isolated from the fruiting body have also shown an antitumor effect in experiments on mice.
In medical practice, alcohol extracts are used to treat inflammation. In folk medicine, recipes using the yellow-red variety are not common.
Conclusion
Having studied the description and useful properties of the yellow-red ryadovka, it will be possible to appreciate the mushroom. The species is widespread throughout the territory of our country, it is difficult to miss it in the pine forest. If you follow the rules of collection and preparation, the mushroom not only diversifies the diet, but also benefits the body.
