The TV advertisement claims that it can "nourish the stomach", and the "food name" on the outer packaging of Monkey Gu biscuit clearly reads: Monkey Gu TM crisp biscuit (for patients with stomach diseases). Compared with other common food labels, this biscuit has two columns of information, namely "suitable people" and "eating methods", that is, "people with stomach problems" and "it is recommended to eat 2~3 packets a day". Sounds like a health food with stomach nourishing function. Is that monkey biscuit a healthy food?

The reporter looked up the functional scope of 27 kinds of health foods stipulated by the State Food and Drug Administration of the United States, and found that there are four functions related to the stomach, namely, regulating intestinal flora, promoting digestion, relaxing bowels, and having auxiliary protective effects on gastric mucosal injury, but not nourishing the stomach. On the outer packaging of the monkey biscuits, the reporter did not find the "little blue hat" with the health food logo.

Fan Zhihong, an associate professor at the College of Food Science of China Agricultural University, told the media that Hericium erinaceus was added to monkey biscuits, but about 87% of it was other ingredients. Whether it has a health care effect on gastrointestinal diseases needs to be confirmed by medical experiments conducted by reliable medical institutions. This product is a common food, not a medicine, and there is no batch number of health food. It is illegal to claim health care efficacy without authorization.