Local nutritionists occasionally advise that it is not nearly as useful as eating inexpensive Tremella fuciformis, an edible fungus, which, according to traditional medical texts, has the same effect as bird's nest.
國內食療學者就不時呼籲：不如以古籍中記載，與燕窩有相同療效、價格卻很大眾化的白木耳替代。