date:Jul 31, 2018
lthough considered a vegetable in dietary advice, mushrooms are fungi and differ biologically from plants and animals. Fungi contain chitin
(a polysaccharide derivative of glucose also found in the exoskeleton of
crustaceans), not cellulose found in plants, and they contain the unique sterol ergosterol, rather than cholesterol found in mammalian cells.
Different from pharmaceutical agents that have a therapeutic role in disease, nutrients and bioactive compounds in mushrooms typically are inves