Mushrooms are turning up on dinner tables across Australia in greater numbers than ever, as people to look for meat alternatives.
is looking into how the unique nutrients found in mushrooms could have health benefits for people living with high cholesterol or the risk of dementia.
About 50 growers produce the mushrooms, but fungi can just as easily be grown on the smallest of scales.Josef Sestokas was a police officer for four decades, but now he grows mushrooms in a 9-metre by 4-metre purpose-built shed in Victoria's Gippsland region. "It kind of meant that we were cleaned out by the time the weekend came around and we pulled out of markets.
"From a culinary perspective, mushrooms perform really well as a meat replacement," Dr Fayet-Moore says. In the final year of a three-year project, Dr Fayet-Moore is collating evidence on where mushrooms should fit in dietary guidelines.Mushrooms are rich in chitin, which makes them meaty and a good source of dietary fibre. They also contain beta-glucans that have been found to reduce cholesterol.
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