Usu the Soup Thickener
Usu is used as a thickener in local soups and may be milled with melon seed and used to make special melon seed balls, which is an exotic delicacy of the Igbos.
Pleurotus tuberregium is a Pleurotus sp having both a sclerotia and a mycelium belonging to the Basidiomycota in the Kingdom Fungi. “Ero Usu” as Pleurotus tuberregium is called by the South-eastern people of Nigeria is generally used as a soup thickener particularly in making melon soup when melon seeds are expensive.
Benefits;
- It protects the heart
- liver from harmful toxins
- It has anti-inflammatory
- It has anti-diabetic properties.
- It has anti-mutagenic action that protects the body cells from tumors and cancers.
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