Yeoju Julok Village Shiitake Mushrooms / Yeoju Julok Köyü Shiitake Mantarı
Shiitake mushrooms grow on a dead tree or branch of the broad - leaved tree family such as oak trees, hornbeams, and chestnut trees and since the taste is excellent, Shiitake mushrooms have been considered one of the three main edible Korean mushrooms along with songi and neungi mushrooms. Because a mushroom doesn’ t have a chloroplast, it does carbon assimilation and can’ t produce necessary nutrients. Accordingly, it breeds mycelia and lives on another plant to produce a fruit body. Such plant is divided into parasitism on a living body or parasitism on a dead body depending on what it lives on and a Shiitake mushroom is a parasitism fungi living on a dead body because it grows on a dead tree. As the production of Shiitake mushrooms drops rapidly if they grow in a vicinity of a polluted city or are contacted by acid rain, they are a complete non-pollution and alkalinity food that can be produced in a clean mountain and valley area and are full of fibers, minerals, and Vitamin B, which make a health food to help metabolism of a human body. Shiitake mushrooms also have natural seasonings to make the taste of a food good and prevent a loss of Vitamins in high temperature. A good Shiitake mushroom well preserves its original shape looking like a bamboo hat with a shine, is fresh and resilient, and has a unique smell of a mushroom.