China Becomes World Largest Fungi ProducerChina has become the world largest domestic fungi producing country, with its production accounting for more than half of the world's total, according to the Chinese Edible Fungi Association.The country turns out more than 5.2 million tons of fungi a year, worth 20 billion yuan (2.4 billion US dollars) in terms of production value and exports 650 million US dollars-worth fungi each year, statistics show. Production of lentinus edodes, agaric, tuckahoe, white jelly fungus hedgehogt fungus and straw mushroom were ranked first in the world, according to Liu Caimin, deputy director of the Chinese Edible Fungi Association. Domestic fungi are rich in protein, delicious in taste and has little salt, sugar and fat, according to experts. Chinese enterprises have developed a variety of health-care food with fungi as the main ingredient. Some fungi are also of high-value for medicine. The country has found 150 kinds fungi, which have the biological activity to help prevent against cancer. |
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