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Medicinal Properties of Shiitake June 16 2014

Nutritional Content Protein 13-18%; niacin (mg/100 g): 55; thiamin (mg/100 g): 7.8; riboflavin (mg/100 g): 5.0. Ash: 3.5-6.5%. Fiber: 6-15%. Fat: 2-5%. Vetter (1995) found that the caps had 15.24% protein while stems had 11%.   Medicinal Properties Lentinan, a water-soluble polysaccharide (B-1,3 glucan with B-1,6 and B-1,3 glucopyranoside branchings) extracted from the mushrooms, is approved as an anticancer drug in Japan. The Japanese researcher Chihara was one of the...

Growing Shiitake Mushroom June 16 2014

Description Cap 5-25 cm broad, hemispheric, expanding to convex and eventually plane at matu­rity. Cap dark brown to nearly black at first, becoming lighter brown in age, or upon drying. Cap margin even to irregular inrolled at first, then incurved, flattening with maturity and often undulating with age. Gills white, even at first, becoming serrated or irregular with age*, white, bruising brown when damaged. Stem fibrous, centrally to eccentrically attached,...

Shiitake Mushroom Overview June 10 2014

Shiitake has been cultivated in China since the Song Dynasty in 1100 AD. A woodcutter named Wu San Kwung cut into a log with shiitake and later noticed the mushrooms growing where his ax had struck. This was the beginning of log cultivation. Today, numerous farmers are engaged in shiitake production in China. Cultivation They can be grown, with lower yields, on birch logs stacked above ground. Logs must be...

Shiitake Health Benefits June 10 2014

Whether you know this mushroom as shitake or Lentinus edodes, Tricholomopsis edodes, Cortinellus edodes or Armillaria edodes, the result is the same - a fragrant mushroom that is tasty and well-known for its healing powers, as it has been since ancient times. Numerous farmers are engaged in shiitake production in China today. In 2002, the total production of fresh shiitake topped two million tons. Japan produces more than a billion...
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