Mushrooms are a food which contain several health benefits to our body. The nutritional value of a mushroom includes being low in calories and high in vegetable proteins, iron, fiber, zinc, essential amino acids, vitamins and minerals.
While choosing mushroom proper care should be taken to distinguish between wild ones and the packed variants. However whatever, the size and shape they come in, researchers and nutritionists have found some health benefits in them. Mushroom protect against cancer.
Mushrooms are an excellent source of potassium, a mineral that helps lower elevated blood pressure and reduces the risk of stroke. Potassium keeps you from cramping during extended periods of exercise. One medium portabella mushroom has even more potassium than a banana or a glass of orange juice.
Although the button mushroom is the foremost cultivated edible mushroom in the world with thousands of tonnes being eaten every year, it is often thought of as a poor relation to its more exotic and expensive cousins and to have lesser value nutritionally.
The Reishi mushrooms, among one of the most popular Chinese mushroom, due to a long list of reputable health benefits. This includes such properties such as antioxidants. This property accounts for the reason the dried powder of the mushroom was used in ancient China as a chemotherapy agent.
Mushrooms have versatile flavor and they are used in a wide variety of dishes such as pasta, salads and soups. They can blend very well with any ingredient. People who are very well conscious of their weights can include mushroom in their daily diet. These are filling nutritious foods that contain very few calories. The low calories in a cup of button or Portobello mushroom make them a low fat-burning food.
Medicinal mushrooms can help people who suffer with diabetes, hypertension, kidney or liver problems, heart problems and of course cancer. Certainly healthy people without any illnesses can also benefit from the effects. Because the mushrooms improve immune system naturally and safely.
Mushrooms naturally have vitamin D. They are the only non-animal food to have natural vitamin D, generated automatically when they are exposed to light. They contain beta-glucans which can provide protection against some types of cancer – including breast, skin, stomach and lung cancer. Beta-glucans in mushrooms have been shown to be capable of passing immune cells to the cancerous area and destroying cancer cells.