It happens at every market - a valued customer raises the perfectly reasonable question: "Are these mushrooms organic?" It's a great question, because one of the main good reasons for including more mushrooms in our diet is the health benefits associated with the increased dietary fibre, non-animal protein and researched functional food compounds mushrooms contain. If such supposedly'healthy food' is treated with chemicals that increase yield but are known to be harmful to human health, such...

Firstly, if you read that title aloud – bless you! Secondly, let’s get some clarity: Reishi is a Japanese word, effectively a localized pronunciation of a Chinese synonym, Lingzhi , a famous functional mushroom with a long history of usage in Traditional Chinese Medicine (“TCM”) to promote overall health, and quality and length of life. Scientific investigations have found it to be packed with novel nutraceutical compounds, ushering in an era of research into functional mushrooms with...

"Godzilla Mushrooms" (Stropharia rugosoannulata / 'Wine Caps') are back. They may not quite be 'thirty stories high', but this early...