One of these reasons is you are eating truffles because these may bring you health benefits. Through the years, contentions have been hounding the health benefits and nutritional value of truffles and mushrooms, in general. People say that edible mushrooms such as truffles have no nutritional value at all and these are used just to add flavor to a variety of staple dishes. Truffles are different from other mushrooms since it is a hypogean or an underground mushroom. What is harvested is the fruit, the roots are white filaments called as hyphas, and there is not stem. Truffles would suck sap from the host plant or trees. Those truffles that grow under the roots of oak trees are the most pungent, while those that grow in the roots of lime trees are the most aromatic. With its flesh color which range from pale cream or brown, truffles usually grow during autumn months and each one can grow up 12 centimeter in diameter and could weigh 500 grams. Next to the White Truffle is called the Black truffle or the Black P rigord Truffle. This is also quite expensive because this variety can only be found in the P rigord region in France. These mushrooms are cooked at 400 degrees and frozen, so that they would be able to reach its destination. Truffle mushrooms are not the only ones used for cooking. There are also different truffle products which also provide the same pungent taste, like truffle oil, butter, honey, vinegar and paste. Although it is better that truffles are consumed shortly after you purchase them, you can store them for a short time, like three to five days. Wash the truffles thoroughly with clean water. Be sure they are clean because you will use them unpeeled. Brush truffles with soft brush to eliminate soil deposits and then cover each truffle with dry paper towel to seal their natural flavor. Practically all truffle mushrooms are safe to eat, though only a few varieties are used as delicacies. The edible part of the mushroom is just the fruit of the fungus, not the entirety of it. What you must be wary about when hunting truffle mushrooms is the false truffle type, which is not safe for human consumption.