TRUFA (tuber brumale)

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	TRUFA
	*tuber brumale*

Name
TRUFA

Scientific Name
tuber brumale

TRUFA

A group of fungi of the Tuber sort knows itself with the name trufa, used like nourishing condimento. Although the most coveted gastronomically it is T. melarrosporum, characteristic of the Périgord, in France, the one that grows up spontaneously or brufnale or trufa of winter is cultivated in other places is T..

Trufas a golf ball as large as forms spherical masses, although very many tuberosidades can be greater with the totally irregular surface (of there its Cienti'fico name, Tuber). Externally they appear blackish, yes well his inner one shows a pink pale coloration.

LOCATION

One grows up in encinares and robledales, and to lta of these, in calcáreos, abundant ground scrubs in the Pyrenees.

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES

In spite of the virtues that have been attributed to him (as potencializador of the virilidad you give), the reality is that they do not contain any substance that can exert therapeutic action some on the human organism. They contain mineral glúcidosa greasy, proteins, salts and aromatic compounds, these last characteristic ones of each species of trufa.

MEDICINAL PROPERTIES

Still it is thought that trufas is afrodisíacas, that is to say, that stimulates the sexual appetite, but does not exist no scientific reason to think that thus it is. The Romans, on the other hand, did not attribute any therapeutic value, but all opposite to them: they despised them by insipid and considering that its digestion was heavy.

RECOLECC1Ñ

They acquire the maturity in autumn, and can take shelter the winter throughout; not in vain they are known also like trufas of winter. The problem is in locating them in the forest, because they grow up under earth and they do not arise to the surface.

USES And APPLICATIONS

Nowadays they have exclusively culinarios uses: cut to rebanaditas and used as condimento in the meals praises any plate. The complexity of its culture and the difficulty of location of

spontaneous stocks in the forests make that their price of market is highest and his use popular, prohibitive.

Trufas of pastry shop is a species of chocolates that they only have in common with our fungus the spherical form and the rugosidades of its surface.

In Francis, in the region of the Périgord, famous by his patés and his trufas, the harvesting of these last ones is made guiding itself by the sense of smell of the pigs, which lead until the exact place where this succulent fungus grows.

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