What is so special about "truffles"? Vitamins? Aroma? Are there health benefits? Any substitutes as good?

Just curious. Asked by goldie080 31 months ago Similar questions: special truffles Vitamins Aroma health benefits substitutes Food & Drink > Food.

Similar questions: special truffles Vitamins Aroma health benefits substitutes.

Truffles are special because they have a sufficiently strong AND unique aroma/flavor. If you want it, pay for it. If, like me, you don't want it, you don't pay for it and don't care.

There are technically few to no health benefits in fungi, however. Some can have effects on the mind, but the standard supermarket mushrooms are merely calories. The attraction of vitamins is ensuring that one's body has all that one needs.

While that might not be a daily requirement, my policy is that I never know when I'm going to breathe in a virus and the extra help is very good in keeping that breathed-in virus from getting a foothold. In the U.S., our diets are so whacked, that every little bit helps, altho the fact is that most of the vitamins taken end up in the urine anyway. I have considerably fewer colds now, after taking vitamins for a couple of decades, than I did when I was a kid.(Yes, there could be other reasons for that; I'm only saying.) Or did you mean vitamins in truffles?

No. But there is no substitute for truffles, either, if you care about that sort of thing..

1 Truffles have a unique taste not found in other mushrooms. As far as I know nobody has become proficient at raising them in a farming situation, so it is still a case of gambling that your luck will be good when you go out to harvest them.

Truffles have a unique taste not found in other mushrooms. As far as I know nobody has become proficient at raising them in a farming situation, so it is still a case of gambling that your luck will be good when you go out to harvest them.

2 popsci.com/article/2007-12/why-are-truff... ya go...plus..you have to pay the pigs for hunting them down. :D .

popsci.com/article/2007-12/why-are-truff... ya go...plus..you have to pay the pigs for hunting them down. :D.

3 It's not technically a mushroom, though it is a fungus. They're expensive because they're rare. Is it "worth it"... well, you can't get the flavor of a truffle any other way, so it's worth whatever you think the experience is worth.

I'm underwhelmed, but connoisseurs insist that the only way to experience the truffle is to eat a lot of truffle, and I've never done that.

It's not technically a mushroom, though it is a fungus. They're expensive because they're rare. Is it "worth it"... well, you can't get the flavor of a truffle any other way, so it's worth whatever you think the experience is worth.

I'm underwhelmed, but connoisseurs insist that the only way to experience the truffle is to eat a lot of truffle, and I've never done that.

4 Well I can say that I don't see the appeal. Maybe it's because it's so rare (and edible - in that it won't kill you) that people think they actually like them. Personally if I never have another - or something with truffle in/on it - I can remain, forever and always, a happy diner.

Well I can say that I don't see the appeal. Maybe it's because it's so rare (and edible - in that it won't kill you) that people think they actually like them. Personally if I never have another - or something with truffle in/on it - I can remain, forever and always, a happy diner.

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