Is it necessary to eat enoki mushrooms that come out as soon as you eat them? The answer from doctors at West China University of Political Science and Law...

Speaking of the three most confusing human behaviors:

👉 I took off my socks and couldn't help but smell them

👉 I can't help but pick the dead skin on my feet

👉 After pooping, I couldn't help but take a look

The most surprising thing is to take a look after defecation!

Taking a look, you can not only understand your own physical health status, but also see some familiar faces who have eaten a lot the day before and still managed to stand out despite the hardships the next day.

In this field, Flammulina velutipes must firmly sit at the top spot, and people in the industry call it “See you tommorow”.

Why do Flammulina velutipes come out with a "see you tomorrow" sound? Is it still the same? Did it go to waste? Today, Dr. Lu Yaoyao, attending physician, and Dr. Yang Jinlin, chief physician of the Department of Gastroenterology at West China Hospital of Sichuan University, will talk about why Flammulina velutipes can withstand the "hardships" of the human digestive system.

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The Adventures of Flammulina velutipes in the Human Body

(It is recommended to read this with Enoki mushrooms while eating, it is more delicious)

The human digestive system is composed of the digestive tract and digestive accessory organs, including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, anus, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, salivary glands , etc.

These organs can be said to be invincible, and no matter what you eat, it can be digested clearly.

But even experienced drivers can fail sometimes. For example, when it comes to enoki mushrooms, it tastes the same as when you eat it.

"Why can't a powerful digestive system that can destroy the heavens, the earth and the universe conquer a tiny enoki mushroom?

"This starts with the first step after the Enoki mushroom enters the mouth, which is to face the hardest tissue in the human body - the teeth .

It should be like an egg hitting a stone, no suspense. But the teeth are fierce, but there are gaps. And the owner is also very patient, chewing it for a few seconds and then swallowing it quickly.

Thanks to its slender body, the Enoki mushrooms escaped the first disaster. The worst that happened was that they only lost an arm or a leg, and then were sent to the stomach through the esophagus .

In the stomach, most food will not last more than three rounds once it enters the body. Due to the peristalsis of the stomach and the gastric juice rich in pepsin and hydrochloric acid, most of the food will turn into chyme.

So how did Flammulina velutipes survive this disaster? Then we need to talk about the ingredients of Flammulina velutipes.

Flammulina velutipes contains a relatively high amount of insoluble dietary fiber that cannot be digested and absorbed by the human body. Based on the principle of discarding it when it is useless, Flammulina velutipes has luckily escaped...

After a few hours, the undigested enoki mushrooms and chyme are sent to the duodenum , where the digestive juices and bile rich in various enzymes secreted by the pancreas and liver will help further break down the protein, starch, fat, etc. in the chyme into amino acids, glucose, fatty acids, etc. needed by the human body, which are then absorbed.

Finally, the unabsorbable substances such as the Enoki mushroom itself, as well as some intestinal flora and shed epithelial cells will be excreted as feces in the large intestine.

This is the origin of "Shit Youyu Mushroom"...

Enoki mushrooms excreted from the body

Is it still the same "it"?

After reading the "adventures of the human body" of Flammulina velutipes, some people can't help but ask: "Doesn't that mean that the Flammulina velutipes just goes around in the stomach and comes out again? Hey, it sounds like it can be recycled, right? "

Thanks for the invitation, I am disgusted!

Although the main body of the enoki mushroom can indeed be seen in the final feces, in fact its "inner soul" has long been completely absorbed by the human body.

Don’t underestimate the human digestive system. Even if it is a “dragon coming across the river”, it will have to shed three layers of skin after going through a circle.

The main components of Flammulina velutipes are water, dietary fiber, protein, fatty acids, vitamins and minerals .

Despite the protective factor of insoluble dietary fiber, protease can still break down the protein in enoki mushrooms into amino acids for absorption.

There are also nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, etc., which cannot escape the fate of being absorbed (are you underestimating the power of our digestive system~), and what is finally excreted from the body is just an "empty shell" .

So if you are interested and can hold back, you can look back after you poop. Do the enoki mushrooms look shriveled? They are completely different from the plumpness when you first put them in your mouth. That’s because their bodies have been hollowed out…

So, although the appearance of Enoki mushrooms is the same as when you eat them, all the nutrients in them are absorbed.

In addition to Flammulina velutipes

These foods are what you eat and what you poop out

What we poop the next day usually depends on what we ate the night before.

In addition to Enoki mushrooms, there are many other foods that can also say “See you tomorrow”, but Enoki mushrooms are so famous and popular that they have received special attention.

Let’s roughly classify these “See you tomorrow” foods according to shape and color.

In terms of shape (you can still see what it looks like when you pull it out)

For example, foods such as dragon fruit seeds, watermelon seeds, and corn kernels have hard cellulose attached to their surfaces; and foods with high insoluble dietary fiber content such as pepper peels and leeks, so there is a high possibility that you will encounter them again the next day.

Color (there is still obvious color when pulled out)

Those with rich natural pigments, such as dragon fruit, which is as well-known as enoki mushrooms, and mulberries, will dye your poop after you eat them, and they will return to normal after metabolism. (I'll teach you a method: any fruit or vegetable that has a strong color when eaten, will get everywhere if you are not careful, and you often can't eat it secretly, it is likely to cause poop to change color.)

After reading the whole article, I actually felt it was a bit tragic!

It left the most important things to mankind, how great it is~

Of course, if you really can't bear to see the mutilated bodies left after they sacrificed themselves for you, you might as well chew them a few more times when eating...

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