Growing edible mushrooms at home gives you the advantage of having a mushroom supply all year round. Ranging in taste from sweet to nutty, mushrooms are versatile ingredients that bring a delicious umami flavor to dishes. They are usually added to soups, pasta, salads and other savory dishes or dried as a snack, as previously noted. Here Olivia Cook, NaturalNews.com, reflects on organic functional mushrooms that help aid physical and mental health and support the immune system:

“Organic functional mushrooms refer to exotic mushrooms that grow in dense forests, on fallen logs or even on the Himalayan plateau.

Known as “medicinal mushrooms” by traditional and folk medicine practitioners and often termed as “mushroom nutraceuticals” by manufacturers of dietary supplements, these superfoods are now referred to as “adaptogenic mushrooms” for their role in the body’s natural adaptation or immunity functions.

The term adaptogens have been given to varieties of organic functional fungi (the category of organisms that include mushrooms) that have been used in Ayurvedic and traditional medicines for thousands of years. Science has joined ancient wisdom and has isolated and identified compounds in various species of organic functional mushrooms that help aid physical and mental health and support the immune system.

Since the start of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, organic functional mushrooms have been in high demand as safe and natural immune-boosting superfoods.

The Journal of Nutrition published the proceedings of the 2013 Mushrooms and Health Summit, which reported the advances in research specific to the role of mushrooms in a healthful diet and health promotion in general.

According to the summit, organic functional mushrooms are nutritious, low in calories and fat and contain modest amounts of fiber and various nutrients. They are a good source of B vitamins that help you convert proteins, carbohydrates and fats into energy.

Organic functional mushrooms are also a good source of D vitamins that are involved in calcium absorption, immune function and protecting bone, muscle and heart health. They also contain a wealth of antioxidant compounds that are known for protecting cells from damage caused by free radicals and those associated with diseases such as cancer, heart disease and Alzheimer’s.

According to a 2017 study conducted at the Pennsylvania State University and published in the journal Food Chemistry, organic functional mushrooms contain unusually high amounts of the antioxidant ergothioneine, known for preventing wrinkles and reducing signs of aging and sun damage, and the “master antioxidant” glutathione, the most important redox regulator that controls inflammatory processes.

The more interesting properties of organic functional mushrooms are their non-nutritive plant substances – polysaccharides, indoles, polyphenols and carotenoids in which cell and animal studies have shown antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer effects.”

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