The nutritional values ​​of mushrooms strictly depend on their water content, which can range from 85 to 95% of their fresh weight.

Center grams of field mushrooms give just 24 kcal, while pleuroto and porcini come to 35 kcal. Field mushrooms and porcini mushrooms Buy shrooms online have just one gram of sugars available, which in the pleurotum rise to 5.

There are particular sugars, such as mannitol and trehalose, and even glycogen, the polysaccharide used by animals to store sugars, instead of starch. The fibers are just over two grams, even these peculiar:

Chitin, the same substance that we find in the lining of crustaceans and insects, chitosans and β-glucans. Proteins can vary a lot, from 2 to 4 grams, of decent quality, with a reduced content of cysteine ​​and methionine, while fats are almost absent.





Good content of B vitamins, including small amounts of vitamin B12 . When fungi are exposed to ultraviolet radiation, vitamin D is also formed from a precursor, ergosterol, accumulated in the cell wall, while a small amount of vitamin B12 is synthesized by the bacteria present.

Among the minerals potassium, phosphorus, copper, selenium and iron abound, while the calcium and sodium content is modest. The amount of minerals present in cultivated mushrooms is quite constant, however it varies considerably in harvested mushrooms

Which can accumulate significant quantities of heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cesium, cadmium and arsenic, obviously Buy shrooms online when the soil on which they grow presents appreciable quantities .

In porcini and pleurothes there is also a very particular amino acid, ergothioneine, a derivative of histidine, which in vitro has a powerful antioxidant action.