White Jade Matsutake

White Jade Matsutake

　　White Jade Matsutake is a specialty of Baiyu County in Garzê Prefecture, Sichuan Province. These mushrooms have large caps, thick stems, pure white and tender flesh, and a rich, aromatic fragrance, making them a fine delicacy for high-end banquets.

　　Matsutake is a precious fungus, scientifically named Tricholoma matsutake, also known by various other names such as Large Flower Mushroom, Pine Mushroom, and Bark-Peeled Mushroom. It boasts high nutritional value, rich in crude protein, crude fat, crude fiber, and vitamins such as B1, B2, C, and PP. Not only is it delicious and flavorful, but it also has medicinal benefits — it can strengthen the body, benefit the stomach and intestines, relieve pain, regulate qi and resolve phlegm, expel parasites, and help treat diabetes, making it an ideal health food for the elderly. In Europe and Japan, matsutake has long been regarded as a mountain delicacy, and in ancient Japan, it was even offered as a tribute from commoners to nobility and royalty.

　　White Jade Matsutake has large caps, thick stems, pure white and tender flesh, and a rich, aromatic fragrance, making it a fine delicacy for high-end banquets.