June 15, 2009

Where can I find information on the nutrition and how to cultivate different mushrooms?

June 15th 2009 Posted to Health & Fitness :: Nutrition & Supplement
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Here Today asked:


I love mushrooms and my wife is moving us toward a diet with less meat and dairy (per her research on nutrition including having read The China Study), so I thought it would be fun to cultivate mushrooms. Maybe Shiitake and Portablella but before we choose which, I would like help in determining which have the most health benefits (including if you cook them do you remove their benefits) and which you can grow on your own.

Dustin
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Comments

  1. angry fans
    June 17th, 2009 | 4:20 pm

    try these:

    for information on home cultivation see:

    for FAQs:

  2. pbear i
    June 20th, 2009 | 2:27 am

    wow to angry fans….i was going to recommend your local library

  3. Scocasso !
    June 22nd, 2009 | 2:06 pm

    We joined the local mushroom club and we learned that there are LOTS of wild mushrooms around that one can eat. Great experience. Yeah, library is good, but a trained experienced person is good too. Lots of old European and Asian people are into mushroom hunting. We’ve also grown oyster mushrooms ourselves and they turned out pretty well. Bugs really love them, keep a very fine net over them or they will eat your mushrooms all up. Shiitake mushrooms seem pretty easy to grow at home too. Lots of ordering catalogues you can find on the net and at the library. Look amongst the seed catalogues at the library maybe. The librarian will help. Oh, FYI, did you know that those little white button mushrooms that you can buy at any supermarket — well, they are actually baby Portabella mushrooms! Yup. Portabellas are really not so special after all, just full-grown button-mushrooms. And they really jack up the price, eh?

    But, on the other hand, just hit the Asian markets, and get some dried mushrooms. They are great and easy and tasty. Just soak them for like half an hour, drain, then throw them into your stirfry or whatever. One must cook mushrooms. Just like potatoes, they have natural toxins (which are not good for you) that will be nullified with cooking. Growing our own mushrooms was very interesting and a good experience, but in the end, it really wasn’t worth all the trouble. We might try again someday, and try shiitake instead of oyster since all you need is a log of wood. Other mushrooms, you need a substrate which is lots of trouble. Additionally, start a garden too. A packet of one hundred seeds is so cheap, like a dollar, and can last years.