Huifeng Pavilion is serving dishes.

The Manchu and Han banquet arranged by Xiang Tiange was on the table, with ten meat and ten vegetables.

He walked to the dining table and started his speech.

These dishes served are all wild game, giving off a natural smell.

Xiang Tiange talked endlessly about the food table, and even talked about the choice of ingredients in their store, all of which were pure natural and pollution-free.

Abandoning pig's trotters, braised giant salamander, steamed wild deer meat, and a lot of wild game.

After the waiter served all the dishes, Xiang Tiange started a long speech to show himself to several beauties.

He said:

Using wild game as a meal has become a unique dietary preference for Chinese people. You can eat all the water and water that fly in the sky and crawl in the ground.

Pheasant, wild duck, wild boar, and rabbit are just beginnings. Those who dare to face monkey-brained, bear-pawed pangolins are the gourmets.

In the eyes of the game party, meat is divided into different levels.

The so-called domestic ones are not as good as free-range, free-range ones are not as good as wild, wild ones are not as rare, and rare ones are not as good as endangered.

In short, things are precious because they are rare, and things are beautiful because they are rare.

However, the food industry has long crushed this rumor - wild game is not better than ordinary meat.

In fact, since humans learned to make fire, they have been exploring what can be eaten, what cannot be eaten, what is good and what is bad for thousands of years.

Today's chicken, duck, pig, cattle and sheep occupy the human dining table, which is the result of countless foodies voting with their mouths throughout history.

However, wild game lacks cooking traditions and can only satisfy the curiosity mentality. If the delicious food is not cooked well, it is really unpalatable.

Not delicious? Then let me talk about nutrition! The Chinese people have always believed in using shape to replenish the shape, especially regarding rare beasts as food supplements. For example, pangolins love diamonds, and they think that eating them can turn into diamonds. There are also bear paws, which can be eaten together, and they can practice iron sand palms in minutes. There are also monkey brains to replenish brains, tiger whip whip, eagle wings... uh... it can probably go to heaven. The four words are summarized as: what you eat is to replenish what you eat.

However, this kind of evil way is worthless except to strengthen the health care market.

Modern nutrition has long proved that most wild animals have no special nutritional value. The so-called miraculous effect? ​​It’s a combination of eggs!

Although the official said it was a bit unstoppable, some people could not use wild game to show off their wealth in a fancy way.

They frequently go to hotels, clubs and farms, not only eat by themselves but also invite others to eat. The prices are expensive and tens of thousands of yuan. What they eat is not just about food, but also about face and ways.

In some areas, eating wild game is still an advanced method of bribery.

Often, the less wild game is, the more beautiful the leader is, and he will naturally be faster than others in doing things.

This is another gift-giving posture after giving money, houses, cars, antiques.

However, once it is exposed, you still have to go in and pick up soap.

The Chinese people love to eat very much, and there is no doubt that many foreigners dare not eat food. In our Chinese people, they have very good foods, especially for some wild game.

However, there are two kinds of so-called wild game, one is meat food, such as pheasants, rabbits and other animals, and the other is wild game, which refers to wild vegetables and wild fruits collected.

The biological chain has an enrichment effect, that is, organisms have the ability to transfer and accumulate low concentrations of chemical substances in the environment to high concentrations through the food chain. For example, the content of pesticide DDT alone in the body of water birds can ultimately be 8.33 million times the raw water content, and terrestrial organisms also have an enrichment effect. Now the global environment is generally polluted, and the living environment of wild animals is harsh.

As the highest end of the biological chain, it is also harmful to health if these animals enriched with pesticide residues are consumed.

Eating wild animals is prone to multiple diseases because wild animals may suffer from multiple diseases. The brain, blood and muscles contain viruses and parasites (such as pulmonary twitch, schistosomiasis, etc.).

Generally speaking, pathogens carried by wild animals will not be transmitted to humans. Pathogens will only be transmitted to humans when humans destroy their living environment or hunt and eat wild animals. Especially zoonotic diseases, such as 10%-60% of macaques in China carry B viruses. Such macaques scratch people may cause infection, and the probability of eating monkeys with raw brain infection is greater.

As the saying goes, “You cannot have both fish and bear’s paw.”

Because shark fin and bear paw are rare, the nutritional content is also highly regarded by citizens.

However, Xiang Tiange recently heard from his predecessors that "wild game may not be rich in nutrition" has long reached a consensus in the nutrition community.

On the contrary, because the ingredients in ordinary fish are close to the human body, the absorption and utilization of nutrients are better than those of bear's paw.

According to the investigation by the Baishui Forestry Department, there are 16 species of animals in Daba Mountain, such as wild boars, civets, yellow deer, roe deer, South China rabbit, bamboo rat, etc.;

and twenty-one types of birds, such as magpies, ring-necked pheasants, turtledoves, sparrows, partridges, bamboo chickens, quails, etc.;

There are also twelve types of amphibians, such as various snakes, tiger-patterned frogs, Indonesian turtles, etc., which have the largest sales volume on the market.

This shows that nearly half of Baishui City people believe that wild animals have high nutritional value and have nourishing effects.

This is what the elderly in southern China pay most attention to in their diet.

In many restaurants and farmhouses in Baishui City, words such as "pollution-free, pure natural, and high nutritional value" have become the advertising slogans of the store;

Hotels and farmhouses around Daba Mountain will be furnished with iron cages of wild animals such as snakes, deer, birds, etc., becoming a "brand" to attract diners.

Is the dietary supplement effect of wild game really that magical?

Li Cuinan, director of the Nutrition Department of Dahua National Union Hospital, pointed out that "wild game may not be rich in nutrition" has long reached a consensus in the nutrition community.

According to reports, from eating raw meat and drinking blood to eating cooked food, our ancestors actually thought a lot about how to effectively intake nutrition and enjoy food more deliciously.

Like chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, cattle and sheep, they were originally wild animals, but later they were raised in captivity and turned into poultry and livestock, all of which went through a process of category selection, survival of the fittest, and species evolution.

Judging from the taste alone, although wild game is strange, it may not be as delicious as imagined. For example, the muscle fibers of wild boars are obviously thicker than domestic pigs and are difficult to digest; while roe deer, bamboo rat, crocodile meat, etc. generally require a lot of seasonings to remove the fishy smell in cooking.

On the one hand, people are chasing the plasticizer in white wine, and everyone is questioning how to ensure food safety?

On the one hand, hunting migratory birds is constantly banned. Overwintering migratory birds have become a feast on the table of greedy gluttons. At this time, eaters no longer care about the origin of "abbrian flu"; on the one hand, they are panic "eating pork is equivalent to suicide", and the hormone content of "fast-growing chickens" is the lively consumption of national-level protected animals in designated business businesses. At this time, no one on the table is concerned whether wild game has been safely quarantined.

It is reported that since last fall, a group of migratory birds have been hunted and killed in the "Millennium Bird Road" of the Luoxiao Mountains in South China;

In Beijing Beidagang, Dahua Country, some of the first-class protected animal Oriental White Storks were killed;

In Western Xinjiang, some migratory birds are disguised as poachers and sold as air transported and sold...

Just last year's statistics, Gao Shang, president of the Ornithology Society of Great China, wrote in the International Organization of the World Conservation Union's "Big Geese Newsletter": "In the past five years, at least 300,000 water birds in Great China have died."

It is estimated that this number is more conservative.

Environmental experts say that "eating" is the most important reason for migratory birds to be hunted.

Some people believe that the blood and fresh meat of live birds can "replenish" the body, while in some places, eating wild game is still a yearn for eating. These habits and concepts objectively provide demand and market for hunting birds, so hunting behavior is growing more and more.

Coincidentally, Dahua Guoxin Media recently revealed that in Nanping County, Huxi Province, a valley that should have been an animal paradise, it showed such a picture: macaques vomiting blood and twitching after being shot, bamboo rats in an iron cage, cold storage full of wild animals, and game restaurants with "designated merchants for official consumption"...

These scenes are presented to the audience through the lens of a reporter from Xinguang Media. An industrial chain of hunting, trading and eating wild protected animals was exposed. The survey shows that in some local restaurants and restaurants in Huxi Province, operators secretly slaughtered and sold macaques, and diners stole wild animals protected by the state, such as wild animals that are beneficial or have important economic and scientific research value.

A wild restaurant called Lao Xiao Lobster has been open for more than ten years. The restaurant owner introduced that there is a group of regular regular customers. Every time there is good game, diners will come as scheduled if they call. Analyze the reasons for eating game and wanting to nourish it, out of curiosity, which is an important reason.

The Ministry of Forestry of the Greater China once conducted a survey, including 21 cities including Kyoto, Shanghai and Guanghua. The survey showed that there are mainly two mentalities of eating wild animals, of which 33% were out of curiosity, and about 44% were determined that wild animals contain many special nutrients.

Many people believe that wild game is delicious and nutritious, and even believe that wild animals are organic foods and are not contaminated, so "a certain supplement to wild animals". There is no obvious difference between wild animals and artificially raised animals. Moreover, according to current research results, it has not been found that wild animals contain anything that cannot be replaced by other animal foods. It is difficult to say that they have any special nutritional value just by eating a single food.

Therefore, there is no scientific basis for the statement that the nutritional value of wild animals is higher than that of artificially raised animals.

According to the nutritional analysis and comparison of poultry, livestock and several wild animals by relevant departments, they are almost the same in major indicators such as protein, carbohydrates, and energy.

If you want to replenish your body, it is basically enough to eat beef and chicken, so there is no need to make a special trip to find rare wild animals to supplement it.

Moreover, from a tasting point of view, due to the growth environment, wild animals have more muscles and less fat in their fleshy ingredients, and they do not have any advantages in taste.

Eating wild game is also praised because many people believe that wild animals grow in the remote mountains and forests, and eat naturally growing animals and plants. Unlike artificially raised animal feed, there are many additives in food, eating wild game seems to be a safe food.

Little do people know that wild game is not green food. Because the global environment is generally severely polluted, the living environment of wild animals is harsh, and there is also a situation of being polluted, even more than poultry. If a person eats wild animals that cause gene mutations due to pollution, it may induce malignant lesions such as cancer.

Most people may not understand the effects of biological enrichment, which is also a link that harms health when eating wild game.

Biological enrichment refers to the ability of organisms to transfer and accumulate low concentrations of chemical substances in the environment to achieve high concentrations through the food chain.

As the highest end of the biological chain, the human body consumes these animals enriched with pesticide residues, and its health can be imagined.

Many people who eat wild game pursue the umami flavor of wild game, which also lays greater hidden dangers for their health.

Since restaurants and restaurants that illegally sell wild game often carry out wild game secretly, there will be problems of shoddy production during processing. In addition, diners’ "seeking freshness" often cannot guarantee that they are cooked thoroughly.

Therefore, it is impossible to ensure that viruses and parasites that are carried in their muscles, blood and internal organs are killed.

Moreover, not all pathogens can be killed by heating, and some pathogens can withstand heat above 100 degrees Celsius.

In addition, poisoning is the way many wild animals are now being hunted and killed, causing wild animals as wild game to contain a large amount of toxins, which may cause acute or chronic poisoning after consumption.

What do mountain delicacies and wild game include?

Mountain delicacies have different meanings in different periods.

The earliest "seven mountain delicacies" mentioned by mountain people include seven mountain products: bear paw, elephant trunk, deer tendon, hump, bird's nest, bamboo fungus, and monkey erectus mushrooms.

Later, some people divided it into "eight animal treasures", namely bear's paw, elephant trunk, deer tendon, hump, ape lips, deer tail, monkey brain, and leopard fetus. "Four plant treasures" are bamboo fungus, bird's nest, mushrooms, and tremella.

With the improvement of people's awareness of ecological and environmental protection, the so-called "mountain delicacies" now no longer refer to those rare animals, but to mountain products produced in mountainous areas and cultivated by mountain people in the natural ecological environment, such as mushrooms, bamboo fungus, oyster mushrooms, pine nuts, chestnuts, torreya, ginkgo, walnuts, bamboo shoots, etc.

Edible fungi occupies an important position among mountain products. They have many varieties and are delicious and can be made into various dishes.

Because they contain a variety of vitamins, essential amino acids, unsaturated fatty acids and trace elements, they are of great value to human health, can improve the body's immune function and have anti-aging and anti-fatigue effects.

According to research, eating fungi can resist viruses, lower lipids and blood pressure. If consumed regularly, it can also prevent cancer.

The fungi that people can choose include: shiitake mushrooms, mushrooms, straw mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, chicken leg mushrooms, erectus mushrooms, golden ears, glans, beef mushrooms, ash tree flowers, enoki mushrooms, bamboo fungus, black fungus, tremella fungus, etc. The many varieties can be called the "pyramid" of the microbial world.

"Mountain delicacies" also include hard-shelled fruits, or pods and nuts. Commonly used ones include walnuts, torreya nuts, pine nuts, cashews, pistachios, chestnuts, hazelnuts, etc.

They are mostly rich in high-quality proteins, and their amino acid composition is more consistent with the needs of the human body, and are most easily absorbed and utilized by the human body.

Some nuts such as walnuts, chestnuts, treyanuts, etc. also contain lecithin, linolenic acid, linoleic acid, choline, etc., which are beneficial to brain-healing, beauty, and have the effect of prolonging life.
To be continued...