The invention discloses a
truffle microcapsule and a preparation method and an application thereof, which belong to the technical field of preservation and
processing of wild edible fungi.
Truffle slurry obtained by crushing mature
truffle is used as a core material and
sodium alginate and
chitosan are used as wall materials to prepare a microcapsule, and
freeze drying is carried out on the microcapsule to obtain the
truffle microcapsule. By adopting the method disclosed by the invention, such important biological
active components as alpha-androstanol in the truffle are avoided from being oxidized, the loss of volatile
aroma components is small, the effective components of the truffle can be furthest reserved, the storage period is long, and the truffle is conveniently transported and used. Two types of truffle core materials are obtained by adjusting the gap between a
stator and a rotor of a
colloid mill, the prepared microcapsule has two completely different usages, hyphae cells with
large particle sizes contain integral ascospores and still have activity, so that the hyphae cells can be used as indoor or outdoor inoculants of mycorrhizal seedlings; spores of the hyphae cells with
small particle sizes are broken, so that the nutritional ingredients are more beneficial for
human body adsorption, and the truffle microcapsule is mainly used as a
food additive and used for making truffle paste, truffle soup, seasoner, etc.