Button mushrooms contain more antioxidants than other expensive mushrooms

The tiny white button mushroom (greasy mushroom - Agaricus bisporus) has more antioxidant properties than other expensive mushrooms.

Although button mushrooms are the world's first edible fungi with thousands of tons per year, it is often thought that it has no relation to expensive and exotic cousin fungi. Its and has less nutritional value than these fungi.

However, according to a new study in SCI's Science and Food Science, the white button mushroom has more antioxidant properties than other expensive mushrooms such as maitake and matsutake mushrooms - two types. Mushrooms are honored in Japanese culinary arts with their well-known health characteristics including reducing blood pressure and the ability to be confirmed as anti-cancer.

The tiny white button mushroom (greasy mushroom - Agaricus bisporus) has more antioxidant properties than many expensive mushrooms.(Photo: iStockphoto / Tomas Bercic)

It is believed that antioxidants can help prevent disease and promote the body's immune system by acting as free oxygen cleaners, helping to clean up damaged cells from the roots. Free oxygen caused.

Dr. Jean-Michel Savoie and his research team from the National Agricultural Research Institute - a government research organization in France - have discovered that this fungus's anti-oxygen activity is equivalent ( if not more with other common fungal species when they measure the ability of the mushroom species to collect free oxygen radicals.

The French research team also discovered that the mushroom body concentrated more antioxidants in the mushroom stalk.

Dr. Jean-Michel said: 'It is reasonable to assume that the white button mushroom is more capable of clearing oxygen than the current mushroom species being praised for having health benefits. The good thing is that button mushrooms are year round, inexpensive and can be an excellent source of nutrition in a healthy diet. "