Nutritional benefits of Mushrooms

Mushrooms have high nutritional value. They help keep a healthy body and get away with diseases. Mushrooms have a high medicinal value and can help lose weight also. Mushrooms have been gaining more importance as health food and a source of valuable medicines. Research shows that that there are 100,000 estimated different kinds of mushrooms, of which 700 can be used as food. They are highly nutritious and rich in minerals.

Mushrooms are rich in minerals, vitamin thiamin (B1), D (ergosterol), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), dietary fibre as well as all the essential amino acids and are low in fat and calories.

Approximately 200 species appear to have medicinal value, each with its own unique chemistry.

Research on medicinal mushrooms has been extensively going on since the past 22 years in most of the countries. There are plants that can act as adaptogens (also known as biological response modifiers) to assist the body in adapting to environmental and psychological stress. All the important systems of the body including the nervrous, endocrine, adrenal, and immune systems benefit from adaptogens by increasing or decreasing their function as needed.

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