What is the market price of lion's mane mushroom per jin?

Lion's mane mushroom (Hericium erinaceus) is a delicious edible fungus with high nutritional value. In ancient times there was a saying, "Monkey head from the mountains, shark's fin from the sea," and it was praised alongside shark's fin, bear's paw and bird's nest as one of the four great famous dishes. As an "outstanding" member of the edible fungi, its price is also somewhat higher than ordinary shiitake, enoki and other fungi. Let's take a look below at the market price of lion's mane mushroom!

The market price of lion's mane mushroom

Fresh lion's mane mushroom is not very expensive, and it is sold in markets in many places, priced at 15-30 yuan RMB, mostly concentrated at 15-20 yuan. Areas that sell fresh lion's mane mushroom are generally close to the producing regions. Dried lion's mane mushroom is more expensive, because the water has been removed and it is also convenient to store, and it is further divided into cultivated and wild. The dried goods of cultivated lion's mane mushroom generally cost around 150 yuan RMB per jin, the better ones around 200, and wild lion's mane mushroom costs 300 to 400 per jin. But on the market there are also dried lion's mane mushrooms sold at around 50 yuan, 60 yuan, or 100 yuan. However, as the saying goes, you get what you pay for, and the quality probably cannot compare with lion's mane mushroom at two or three hundred yuan per jin.

How to select lion's mane mushroom

1. Dryness and moisture: Lion's mane mushroom is white when wet, and only after drying does it take on the golden yellow color you see now. Good lion's mane mushroom, determined by the first method of Appendix IXH of Part One of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, must not exceed 13.0% moisture. If you see the kind that is very dry, where the fuzz falls off at a touch, then buying it will also turn into a bald lion's mane.

2. Quality: Because most of what is selected at purchase is dried lion's mane, for quality you should choose lion's mane that is uniform in size, dry, free of insect damage, free of foreign matter, and intact in shape. Do not buy the ones that are rotten or worm-eaten.

3. Color: Top-quality lion's mane mushroom is golden yellow in appearance, just like the down of a golden monkey. Sometimes there is also a color of yellow with white, because the mycelium of lion's mane mushroom is white. But some sellers use sulfuric acid, iodine and the like to increase the whitening effect, causing the lion's mane mushroom to show an abnormal white. This is not only harmful to the lion's mane but also harms people's bodies, so try not to buy it.

4. Shape: When choosing, pick those whose shape is similar to round, with a diameter of about 4-5cm, free of scars and defects, and uniform in size; such lion's mane is relatively good. Of course, some lion's mane on the market is flat in seven ways and flat in eight, in all kinds of shapes; has its nutritional value been lost? Just as the bark of a big tree, although a piece is missing, still provides nutrients to the branches, but the part without bark gradually becomes misshapen, precisely because the nutrients did not keep up.

5. Hair length: One of the criteria for judging whether lion's mane is good or bad is looking at the length of the down. High-quality lion's mane has fine, long, complete down, distributed evenly and densely, because it is the mycelium of the lion's mane mushroom, providing the nutrients needed for daily growth.

Home-style recipes for lion's mane mushroom

1. Lion's mane mushroom stewed with pork ribs

[Ingredients] Lion's mane mushroom, pork ribs, tomato, ginger, scallion, salt, monosodium glutamate, etc.

[Method] ① Much of the lion's mane mushroom bought on the market is dried goods, so before stewing the soup, soak the lion's mane mushroom in clear water overnight, changing the water twice during soaking, and squeeze the lion's mane mushroom dry before changing the water. Finally, tear the lion's mane mushroom into thin strips. ② Boil the fresh pork ribs in boiling water for 5 minutes to remove the blood. ③ Put the torn lion's mane mushroom and the boiled pork ribs into a stew pot, add an appropriate amount of clear water, bring to a boil over high heat, then remove the foam on the surface. ④ Add diagonally cut ginger slices and tomato, cover the stew pot with the lid, and simmer over low heat for 1 hour. Adding ginger slices is to remove the fishy smell, while adding tomato not only makes the soup bright in color, but also gives it very good taste and nutritional value. ⑤ Add an appropriate amount of salt, monosodium glutamate and chopped scallion, turn off the heat, ladle it out, and you get delicious lion's mane mushroom tomato pork rib soup.

[Benefits] Not only is the taste fresh and delicious, but it is also rich in nutrition and has strong health benefits.

2. Lion's mane mushroom stewed with chicken

[Ingredients] 2 chicken legs, 2 lion's mane mushrooms, 10 red dates, an appropriate amount of scallion, ginger and garlic, an appropriate amount of salt.

[Method] ① Soak the lion's mane mushroom until rehydrated, wash it, and tear it into small pieces. ② Put the chicken legs, lion's mane mushroom, red dates, and slices of scallion, ginger and garlic together into a clay pot, add boiling water, preferably with the water amount covering the ingredients, and place in the clay pot to simmer over low heat for 2-3 hours to make delicious lion's mane mushroom chicken soup. ③ When eating, a small amount of salt can be mixed in.

[Tip] When putting red dates into the soup, it is best to remove the pits, because date pits are drying in nature.

3. Lion's mane mushroom big bone soup

[Ingredients] Pork bones, potato, lion's mane mushroom, goji berries, salt.

[Method] ① Soak the lion's mane mushroom until rehydrated in advance. ② Soak the goji berries in advance. ③ Put the bones into a pot, add cooking wine, bring to a boil, then take them out and wash them. ④ Put the washed bones into a pressure cooker, add cooking wine and an appropriate amount of ginger slices. Bring to a boil, and continue cooking for 15 minutes. ⑤ During cooking, tear the lion's mane mushroom into small florets and cut the potato into chunks. ⑥ After the bones are cooked, put the cut potato and lion's mane mushroom into the soup. ⑦ Add the goji berries together with the soaking water into the bone soup. ⑧ Cover with the lid, cook for 5 minutes, add salt to season, and it is ready.