Cordyceps mushroom dryer are used a lot in drying cordyceps, a precious oriental medicine originating from China. Today, Cordyceps is widely cultivated and there are many production facilities in Vietnam. After harvesting, the mushroom body will be dried in a dryer for long-term preservation and use.
Cordyceps mushrooms are essentially some types of fungi that grow parasitically on the larval bodies of some types of butterflies. In the summer, the mushrooms grow more, longer, so they look like a plant. In the winter, the mushrooms grow short and small, so they look like an animal. Despite the information, nowadays it is very difficult, even impossible, to buy this type of mushroom because the quantity is very small and there are many fake products. Therefore, forms such as farming to produce similar mushrooms have been developed strongly in the past few years.
After harvesting, the mushrooms need to be dried for long-term preservation and used in medicinal remedies or used to prepare dishes with high nutritional content. Since ancient times, The Physicians have used Cordyceps as a valuable medicine because of its excellent healing properties. Today, thanks to science, many research projects have discovered many valuable active ingredients in cordyceps mushroom, in addition to the content of micronutrients such as Na, K, Si…and there are many different types of amino acids. Therefore, when using a cordyceps mushroom dryer, it is necessary to ensure important factors such as appropriate drying temperature to preserve nutrients and compounds, especially to preserve the shape and color of the product.
In the past, Cordyceps mushroom dryers were often used as hot air dryers, then cold dryers, with low drying temperatures of 15 – 30oC, but the mushroom bodies shrunk, reducing nutrition. Therefore, it is necessary to use a better dryer to dry mushrooms while still retaining their natural shape and color. Currently, the most suitable dryer for this precious medicinal herb is to use a Sublimation Dryer to dry it at subzero temperatures in a suitable vacuum-sealed drying chamber.
Mactech food dryers with the principle of convection heat drying are often used to dry a variety of foods, fruits, and medicinal herbs, making it convenient for Customers to dry for a variety of purposes and very conveniently. But to dry cordyceps mushrooms, you should use freeze drying, which will give much better quality. Please contact Mactech for more detailed advice on drying products and suitable dryers.