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Are mushrooms bad for your health?

Is eating mushrooms bad for your health? My sister eats a lot of mushrooms every day. Could it be a problem?

5 Answers

No, they are not bad for you. Certain mushrooms are medicinal.
If she’s buying them at the store or farmers market, it’s safe to eat. If she’s foraging wild mushrooms, she needs to know very well what she is picking as some wild mushrooms are poisonous. Generally speaking, mushrooms are good for your health. They’re an excellent source of vitamin D. In fact, chanterelle and maitake mushrooms have some of the highest vitamin D levels you can find in a plant source! Mushrooms also have other important nutrients like potassium and several B vitamins as well.
As long as they are safe mushrooms and not poisonous or she does not have an allergy, mushrooms are great for the immune system. Enjoy!
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Mushrooms have been used as a culinary wonder for ages, folk medicine, Oriental practice. The medicinal uses of mushrooms discovered so far are as antioxidant, antidiabetic, hypocholesterolemic, anti-tumor, anti-cancer, immunomodulatory, anti-allergic, nephroprotective, and anti-microbial agents.