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How to check mushrooms for toxicity? Independently - no way. Just pull the suspicious into the lab. But, often, it costs good money, so many people collect unknown mushrooms at their own peril and risk.
How many times have they told the world: never take unknown mushrooms. Do not even touch it with your hands. The juice of the pale toadstool, falling into the wound on the finger, causes fatal poisoning. And you never think why it began to feel unwell.
Well, we will not describe all the symptoms of poisoning or list poisonous mushrooms. Just debunk the most common myths.
Silver Check
The most common myth. In a bowl of mushrooms throw a silver product and boil. Or even rub silver on the rift of the fungus. Ostensibly from poisonous silver will darken. Pfe two times.It will darken from certain substances in edible mushrooms.
We strongly do not recommend this method.
Onion check
"My grandmother also tested mushrooms for poisonousness!" Surely only edible tested. Otherwise, her grandson would not write such a heresy now.
The method is to throw the peeled onion into a saucepan with mushrooms. It seems to be blue from the poison of mushrooms. Well yes. Now let someone answer:
- What volume of mushrooms to take onion what size?
- Should the head be purple, white, yellow? Onion spicy or sweet salad?
- Do all poisonous mushrooms have the same poisonous substance? Or different?
- How much poison does the onion indicator trigger?
When there is a person who accurately answers all the questions and scientifically substantiates (proves) the veracity of his statements, then this method will be considered 100%.
In the meantime, let the supporters of this myth try to boil any poisonous mushrooms with an onion. So purely for the sake of experiment. Then let them admire the result. Then we'll talk. And now, thank you.
Milk indicator
Another Babkin way. Allegedly from a poisonous fungus is rolled up to whey milk.Well, yes, but from edible to oil turns. Or in sour cream.
Do a check on the reverse. Bathe any edible mushrooms in milk in turns. And look at ... curled mass in the pot. This reaction is caused not by poison, but by enzymes, of which there are many in many mushrooms.
The method was not considered in scientific studies and can not be considered reliable.
How to check mushrooms for poison in the forest
We repeat once again: do not take strangers! And even like acquaintances, too, do not take! Not all edible mushrooms have poisonous twins, but sometimes even experienced gatherers get confused. Do not risk your health in favor of gluttony and greed.
By the way, did you know that even edible mushrooms under certain conditions can cause severe indigestion? And what is it not poisoning? Mushrooms acquire such dangerous properties when:
- Assembled along a highway or a busy road. Heavy metals, lead, dirty exhausts - all this is perfectly absorbed by the mycelium.
- Damaged by the larvae. The waste products of worms are highly toxic substances. And besides, such mushrooms, as a rule, are already subject to rotting, even if it is imperceptible to the naked eye.
- Get old or huge.
Instead of the joy of finding a giant mushroom, there should be a healthy apprehension. Why did this mutant grow to such a size? What stuff did he get fed up with that became abnormally big? And well, if all the cost of indigestion or hallucinations.
Council Be sure to turn your head on a quiet hunt. The ecstasy of discoveries can cost you and your household.
There are several immutable rules that will help avoid trouble. You need to remember them and apply in the forest.
- All deadly poisonous mushrooms - from the plate. In Russia there is no tubular poisonous. Inedible due to bitterness or excessive hardness - there is.
- Most poisonous mushrooms have a teardrop-shaped foot thickening at the base and a skirt just under the cap.
- Edible mushrooms grow only in deciduous forests. In conifers - only false.
- Pale toadstool has the above symptoms and completely white plates.
- In a true mushroom picker, any unfamiliar mushroom is an toadstool.
Following these rules, some comrades may in the season begin to mow all tubular mushrooms. Don't do that. This is fraught with serious trouble.At least by indigestion, as a maximum lethal outcome.
How can you not check mushrooms for poisonousness
On the smell. It is believed that poisonous mushrooms smell like some technical smell. Nonsense. Not all, not all fatally poisonous smell bad. Some of them have a faint aroma, others emit the smell of mushrooms.
To the taste. There are recommendations to bite off a piece of a hat or lick the pulp on the break. Say, poisonous mushrooms will be bitter. Generally dangerous advice. After such contact of the mucous membrane of the mouth with the juice of a pale toadstool, there is a great risk of forgetting about a silent hunt forever. That is, forget the eternal sleep.
Or so. Suppose that a person believed in this method. I went to the forest, found a bum, a windmill, and a waluja. And he doubts. Broke the flesh, licked. What will he feel? Right, bitterness. Milky juice is always bitter. No wonder that such mushrooms are soaked before cooking. Are they also considered poisonous?
On color. Syroezhkin hat is red, pink, green. The pale-gankin hat is also green. The plates of this champignon pink. The same color of the plates have a number of poisonous mushrooms. Poisoning pulp on the fault quickly replaces the shade from light to red, dark pink or blue. However, the edible of some also changes color. And how not to confuse? Very simple.Do not take strangers!
According to the place of growth. There is an erroneous version that deadly poisonous mushrooms grow only in deciduous or coniferous forests. Allegedly in the meadows and fields, you can safely collect any mushrooms, the danger will not be poisoned.
Existing nonsense. Toxic fungi can grow everywhere. They can be found in any territory.
According to the age. Another life-threatening statement: all young mushrooms are edible. No doubt, most poisonous mushrooms accumulate a terrible substance as they grow. But some are deadly from infancy. And small mushrooms are very easy to confuse with safe ones.
Useful tips
A strange recipe for a deadly snack, isn't it? Spending so much time, electricity or gas only to hypothetically protect yourself? Isn't it easier to do everything quickly and without wasting effort? We must throw out suspicious mushrooms. Safe and secure.
There is no reliable way to check the mushrooms for toxicity at home. You need to have access to chemical reagents or to a professional laboratory. There are no other methods with a 100% result.
How to check mushrooms for toxicity? Head to do it, just head. And do not put mushrooms in your mouth or smell them, but turn on your brains. Collect only those mushrooms that you know. Or go on a quiet hunt with knowledgeable people.
Video: how to distinguish edible mushrooms from poisonous
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