Mushrooms
Over
centuries human kind learned almost all about searching for food. Under water -
fish, shellfish or mollusks. On lands people learned how to grow vegetables and
breed animals. In the forests they were hunting wild animals, foragers were
looking for wild berries and mushrooms.
Nowadays we can
buy meet, seafood, vegetables, fruits and other kinds of food at stores. Food
production business has developed and farmers can grow or breed almost anything
what's edible. With mushrooms is a different story.
Mushrooms are such
a rare and wild species that only a few types are industrially cultivated. For
example: oyster mushroom or champignon. Most types of mushrooms are only
foraged in the forests, they're quite expensive. What's interesting is that
wild mushrooms are not valued in every country. They're very popular in Poland
but in Scotland or Sweden not so much.
Other unusual
thing about mushrooms is that they don't have almost any nutritional value.
They mainly consist of water. We also have to remember that mushrooms are not
digested easily and they're not a common recommendation from dietitians.
Mushrooms can be prepared many different ways to help digestion. We can cook,
bake, marinate, dry and pickle them. But it there's nothing "valuable"
why to we bother to eat mushrooms? It's for their taste!
If
you treat mushrooms as spice, they’ll give extra taste to vegan, vegetarian and
meat meals. And that taste is called umami, but that will be at my next blog : )
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