What are mushrooms?
A mushroom is the reproductive structure produced by some fungi. It is some like the fruit of a plant except that the seed it produces are in fact millions of microscopic spores that form in the gills or pores underneath the mushrooms cap, mushrooms are white with white gills.
Mushrooms are fungi, they are also known as shrooms, mushies, bliemeanies and golden tops.
Mushrooms is actually the fruit of a much bigger fungus which grows under the ground
Types of Mushrooms
1. White button mushroom
2. Oyster
3. Enoki
4. Maitake
5. Shiltake
6. Portabello
7. Crimino
8. Beech
Mushrooms can be poisonous and non-poisonous
Mushrooms poisoning refers to harmful effects from ingestion of toxic substances present in a mushroom
Poisonous mushrooms are;
* Deathcap(Amanita Phalloides)
* Conocybe filaris_ canocybe filaris
* Webcaps( Cortinarius species webcapmushroom)
* Autumn skullcap
* Destroying angels
* Podostroma cornu-damae
* Deadly Dappering
How to Identity poisonous mushrooms
1. Mushrooms with white gills are often poisonous, so are those with a ring around the stem and those with a volva, because the volva is often underground it's important to dig around the base of a mushroom to look for it
2. Mushrooms with a red color on the cap or stem are also either poisonous or strongly hallucinogenic. The most notorious red coloured mushrooms is Amanita muscaria.
Benefits of Mushrooms
1. Mushrooms are popular for their delicacy and flavor rather than food
2. Mushrooms are excellent sources of vitamins and minerals
3. They also provide many important nutrients, including B vitamins, selenium, potassium and copper
4. In view of their high food value to man and their medicinal properties mushrooms can help in solving the problems of malnutrition and diseases
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Article by:
Adisa Aanuoluwapo Ruth
Food, Nutrients & Health
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