Consumption

After it’s been packaged or processed and shipped we get to the best part, you get to eat it!

 
 

Why Eat Mushrooms?

 
 

Nutrition Facts Of A Mushroom

Canada’s Food Guide to Healthy Eating and Physical Activity also recommends eating a variety of healthy foods each day with half your plate being fruits and vegetables. Did you know that while being classified as a fruit and vegetable in the food guide it is in fact not! A mushroom is a fungi and it has a lot of protein in it like a meat product would.

Button mushrooms, oyster pleurotus, morels even, all contain nearly as much protein as chickpeas, much more than broccoli!

 
 

What’s In Mushrooms?

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How many different varieties?!

There are over 50,000 different varieties of mushrooms in the world!

Here in Canada we primarily consume seven main types and they are:

  • White “Button” Mushrooms

  • Crimini “Brown” Mushrooms

  • Portabella Mushrooms (Portabellini)

  • Shiitake Mushrooms

  • Oyster Mushrooms

  • Enoki Mushrooms

  • King Oyster Mushrooms

 
 

FUN FACT!

  • Mushrooms breath air and exhale CO2 just like humans

  • Mushroom spores can survive the vacuum and radiation of space

  • Portobello and crimini mushrooms are the same type of mushroom, just at different growth stages

  • There’s Bioluminescent Mushrooms that can glow in the dark. Be careful around this one! Not all mushrooms are edible

 
 

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