A Guide to Making Mushroom Tinctures At Home You might have noticed the recent growing trend of medicinal mushrooms for health benefits. Let’s admit the facts, buying medicinal mushrooms might cost you more than you’d want to spend on them. But if you also want to benefit from this superfood, the easy way to go … Read more
Can Mushrooms be a Meat Substitute? Mushrooms are, perhaps, one of the most versatile ingredients in the kitchen. A vegetable or a meat? Well, why not both! Mushrooms are often looked at one of the most nutritious vegetable to consume, a superfood if you will. For a vegetable, mushrooms are packed with protein. Protein Content … Read more
What are the Benefits of Eating Mushrooms? Mushrooms come in all different shapes and sizes. The ones that aren’t toxic, taste yummy, and have amazing health benefits! Mushrooms have the unique ability to add flavors in all cultures’ cuisines. Mushrooms are non-fat, low sodium, low calorie and cholesterol-free. The best thing is, you can find … Read more
White Truffles vs. Black Truffles Among the most expensive fungi on the market, white truffles (Tuber magnatum) and black truffles (Tuber melanosporum) are prized by chefs, gourmets, and foragers around the world. Why are they so valued, though, and what is the difference? White truffles sell for significantly higher prices than black truffles. Is the … Read more
What is a Mushroom? A mushroom is a fruiting body of a kind of fungus. A fungus is a group of spore-producing organisms including mold, yeasts mushrooms, and toadstools. There are over 14,000 species of mushrooms among which there are only 14,000 known species. Mushrooms can be poisonous, medicinal or edible. A number of species … Read more
Mushroom Foraging Book Recommendations There is a lot to consider when buying a mushroom identification guide. After all, you want a good one so you can trust the ID. With a plethora of books on the market, it is hard to know which ones are worth the money. The best guides are ones that focus … Read more
What Is The Oregon Truffle and Does It Measure Up? A truffle mushroom that grows in Oregon, can it really compare to the highly-prized European truffles, the most expensive mushrooms in the world? The Italians and French may disagree, but this North American truffle is no side-show. In the last 20 years, Oregon truffles have … Read more
All About Lobster Mushrooms It sounds bizarre, a mushroom named lobster – what in the world can a mushroom and lobster have in common? Well, it turns out, a few things. To start, the color of this fungi (Hypomyces lactifluorum) is so intensely lobster red that it is extraordinary. And, on top of that, it … Read more
Cordyceps: Is it Worth the Cost? Cordyceps are one of the most expensive medicinal mushrooms you can find in the market. While raw cordyceps are even harder to get a hand on, cordyceps supplements available in the market are either too expensive as well or do not contain the beneficial compounds of the mushroom. So … Read more
What are psilocybin mushrooms? Psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms, are a species of mushrooms that possess psychedelic properties and are often used as a psychedelic drug. Magic mushrooms have been around for thousands of years and have been used religiously as well as spiritually in many tribes. Today, shrooms are considered illegal in … Read more