Tremella is also called? Snow ear? The two are actually the same thing, but they are called differently in different places. Fresh tremella can't be eaten directly. Fresh tremella contains a photosensitive substance called porphyrin when it is just picked. If we eat fresh tremella, it will cause toxic reaction, so we try not to eat fresh tremella.
Usually, many people will cook tremella soup, but it is necessary to pay attention to cooking tremella for a long time and add rock sugar to cook it together. Be sure to cook until the soup is thick and the tremella is broken with chopsticks. Generally, it will take an hour to cook on low heat. If you use a microwave oven, the nutrition will not be lost. Coupled with some health-preserving materials, such as red dates, lilies and lotus seeds, the boiled tremella soup will be the best.
Tremella can't be eaten with spinach. Because tremella is rich in metal elements such as calcium and iron, when it is eaten with spinach rich in vitamin C, metal ions will lead to the oxidation of vitamin C and lose its nutritional value. So tremella can't be eaten with iron-containing food. Tremella can't be eaten with white radish. Because they are eaten together, it is easy to cause dermatitis for some people with particularly sensitive physique. Moreover, white radish is flat and slightly cold, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, invigorating stomach and promoting digestion, resolving phlegm and relieving cough, so tremella and white radish can't be eaten together. Tremella is also not suitable for eating with foods rich in iron.