Pear & Snow Fungus Soy Milk / Does Snow Fungus truly contain collagen?

 Despite the wonderful taste of snow fungus no matter how you prepared it, does it actually boost your skin complexion like a magical spell?

Let’s have a vote on the following questions to see which of the ones are truths/myths.

1. Snow fungus is rich in plant-based collagen, and it improves skin complexion
2. Snow fungus lowers triglycerides
3. Snow fungus is rich in Vitamin D.

Regardless of all the wonderful health benefits that snow fungus claims, eating is always the most appealing aspect of it. Now let’s look at an effortless recipe provided by the dietitian.

Ingredients (for 4 servings):

Mixed beans.  Snow fungus. Pear.

Steps:

1. Soak the beans in water (mix yellow beans and black beans to make it even more nutritious)
2. Dump all the ingredients into a soy milk maker, then push the “wet beans” icon.
3. Once you finish morning wake up routine, pear & snow fungus soy milk is ready for you to enjoy.

FAQ:

1. Does snow fungus actually provide any health benefits to our body?

The impression of “improving skin complexion” comes from the color & texture of snow fungus. When snow fungus is cooked, it almost looks like a clear transparency film sheet, which reminds people of what a collagen may look like.

As many of you might already know, we get something called “water-soluble fibers” when we cook cereals till it becomes viscous.

We get the same level of viscosity when snow fungus is cooked, but we have an another name for the viscous substances à we called it “prebiotics”

Therefore, long story short, snow fungus indeed provide health benefits to our body.

However, we obtain these benefits from prebiotics, which is what we see in the viscous substances.

2. Does snow fungus reduce the triglycerides in our body?

Yes, and that’s a result from the water-soluble fibers in snow fungus. It’s the same idea when dietitians say cereals help with lowering cholesterol level.

3. Is snow fungus rich in Vitamin D?

Yes and No. Snow fungus is a type of fungi, aka it’s a type of mushroom. Mushrooms are able to synthesize Vitamin D after certain period of sun exposure. Although snow fungus is exposured to the sunlight when it grows, the light isn’t strong enough. Moreover, majority of the fresh snow fungus we see in stores are either baked or smoked during the drying process instead of sun-dried. Theoretically, snow fungus has certain trace of Vitamin D, but there’s no scientific data to prove it.

That being said, sun-dried snow fungus will have greater amount of Vitamin D; but it still needs scientific lab data to confirm.