Watching Zoe has convinced me to try and eat mushrooms every day and, specifically, shiitake if I can. I now add them to meals whenever I can with my avocado or poached eggs in a morning, chicken salad or pasta meals in an evening. I have no idea of the actual bodily benefits long term but they are genuinely tasty lightly cooked in olive oil.

Thank you for a topic i can research further...that is if you have alreDy done so...

My favourite food, difficult sourcing a variety of mushrooms. I did buy a shitake log in the 80s, but wasn't too successful. Loved this programme, really interesting. Thank you.

Short clip, which means there isn't mushroom for in depth discussion

@imightbebiased9311

2 ай бұрын

Still, it's good to see this discussion from a fun guy.

I regularly enjoy oyster and shiitake! I have also recently enjoyed reading Merlin Sheldrake's book on mushrooms.

@justgivemethetruth

2 ай бұрын

Always nice to have a good shitake

@jimhignett6993

2 ай бұрын

There is more to food than nutrients.

@patthompson2401

2 ай бұрын

Ive read merlins book its great reading.

Experiencing incredible levels of name envy. Excellent, easily accessible information as ever - thank you.

Tim does leave himself open to charges of over-hyping things! DRIED mushrooms might be 25% protein, but while dried, they are not edible in any quantity. You need to eat rather a large portion of mushrooms to get even 10g of protein. VITAMIN D is produced by ultra violet light on mushrooms. BUT there is very little uv in UK winter daylight, and window glass cuts it out anyway (hence you won’t get sunburned through a window!) To boost the vitamin content, your mushrooms need to sunbathe outdoors and in strong sunlight (like they have in summer in Southern Germany where the research was done.) Yes mushrooms are a useful dietary component, but please, let’s not get carried away. BTW, another caveat on foraged mushrooms - fungi soak up heavy metals (like lead) from contaminated soil, so don’t pick them from roadsides or “brownfield” sites. When learning mushroom identification, I’d suggest starting with the most dangerous ones, so that you can positively ID those immediately when you come across them, and avoid picking them and contaminating the rest of your basket!

@britpopification

2 ай бұрын

Mushroom companies expose mushrooms to UV light to get the vit D - It provides an exact quantity rather than sunlight lol

@dougal6569

2 ай бұрын

@@britpopification lol - some mushroom companies expose some of their production to some uv to make vitamin “enriched” mushrooms, for sale at a higher price. But it was Prof Spector that a few months back advised UK newspaper readers to put their mushrooms on their windowsills to boost the Vitamin D. LOL

Excellent resourceful video ❤

@janel342

2 ай бұрын

No warning that mushrooms are highly allergic for some people. They are mould after all.

@MummaBearallday

2 ай бұрын

@@janel342 you can say that for any edible product .... we are not yet ( thankfully) at the stage where we have to be told everything just in case

Curious if mushrooms would be a good survival food?

Always new there was something good about a mushroom. Thanks for the podcast.

I just started eating dried ground shiitake for ergotionine last week, put in my coffee every morning, about 2 tablespoons.

@Jack-tk3ub

2 ай бұрын

2tbsp? Can you even taste coffee at that point or just mushroom? I add 1tsp of mixed mushroom powder to coffee and the whole thing tastes like mushroom 😅

Love all types of mushrooms and like them raw too 🙂

Fresh mushrooms contains maybe 3 grams of protein per 100 grams.

I use them in lentil ragu… taste even better the next day

One huge problem with a lot of mushrooms available to purchase is that they are grown in peat and the continued use of peat to grow mushrooms commercially is adding significantly to carbon emissions and biodiversity loss. So I only buy mushrooms that are produced by using a non-peat based medium - and these are also organic ones so free of pesticide/herbicide residues.

@britpopification

2 ай бұрын

I’m confused about the pesticide/herbicide connection you are trying to make with mushroom growing.

@SelmanJulian

2 ай бұрын

@@britpopification I'm not making that connection, just pointing out there there is a huge environmental problem with using peat to grow mushrooms, and most growers do

I eat a lot of Japanese food, so I use a lot of mushrooms, especially dried shiitake mushrooms, the tastiest! 😊

@robertsmithshair4199

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this. Good information

Any idea why some of their spores want kill me? Gives me absolutely terrible diarrhoea 🤮 A day later made cavolo nero & bean soup. Same effect. The cavolo nero was on top of the oyster mushrooms, hence i figured its the spores. Button/ closed cup/ shiitake/ chestnut are fine for me 😢

03:48 Am I going crazy or has the pronunciation of _chitin_ recently changed from "ky-tin" to "ch-itt-in"? If not, it's somewhat worrying that the Prof appears unfamiliar with the conventional pronunciation.

2 ай бұрын

It's kai.tn This podcast is getting rubbish. The faked baroque and overly sissy style of this Jonathan person combined with his ignorance is super frustrating - I've been watching the show because of the prof but I tend to avoid for a while. At least this time it's not the two hours verbal diarrhea type of podcast.

@britpopification

2 ай бұрын

As an American I would always say “ky-tin” so I’m assuming this is a mispronounced word

Not much talk about the actual nutrients

@jansix4287

2 ай бұрын

But they’re super-tasty!

@susanlindsay1071

2 ай бұрын

25% protein, large amounts of fibre, selenium, vitamin D……

@janel342

2 ай бұрын

Why no mention of allergy to mushrooms?

@dougal6569

2 ай бұрын

@@susanlindsay1071the level of 25% protein is only reached after the mushrooms have been dried - and I doubt you’ll manage to eat a significant quantity in that form. Raw mushrooms are typically more like 3% protein, so to get even 10g of protein you’ll need to eat over 300g of mushrooms, which is quite a lot. The fibre content (of raw mushrooms) is about 1%, so that same mega-portion is only going to get you about 1/10 of your daily fibre target.

@gaweyn

2 ай бұрын

@@dougal6569if you are eating mushrooms raw, you are doing something wrong.

I am going to look up "Merlin Sheldrake" in KZread. What's he done to make him so famous?

@christinestorey6580

2 ай бұрын

Written am amazing book entitled ‘Entangled’ - the wood wide web and more…

Bart Kay

Love eating mushrooms but be very careful with lion’s mane. I made the mistake of taking this for peripheral neuropathy. Big mistake! In my opinion this mushroom is very dangerous.

@britpopification

2 ай бұрын

How so please be more specific for people to learn

@jesincov

2 ай бұрын

@@britpopification made me feel terrible, headache, insomnia, flat affect, nerve pain, muscle weakness, all from just a few doses. Several weeks before I recovered.

Don't all mushrooms have toxic protective chemicals?

@britpopification

2 ай бұрын

Probably for bacteria, other fungi but not much against humans

Fungi above and under the ground are vital for the trees and other things. They have their own kingdom, more like animals than plants in a way! Therefore, because they live of off both inorganic and... organic materials the meaty savory taste that provides the umami, (like tomatoes), that we crave... is there! Only "real" plants only live of off inorganic materials that they convert and make themselves eatable for us! They are as close to the building blocks themselves as possible that we can eat and... without diluting the vital nutrients we need! I'm not sure why I'm writing this, but just in case someone might find it interesting or something 😅 And most vegans doesn't think of this or doesn't care... But I do as the kind of vegan I am, I always... always act in favor of the precautionary principle, so I don't eat them... 💚🌿

I’m concerned that increasing mushrooms in my diet with increase my Candida in my gut, I have a sensitivity “allergy” to yeast. I’m not finding any clear direction to confirm or deny my concerns

Tim likes the ‘taste’ - that’s obvious!! Apart from flavour, what are they good for? What are the nutritional benefits exactly please. I would like more info than just stating that they are ‘nutritous

@robin231176

2 ай бұрын

25% protein, large amounts of fibre, selenium, vitamin D - if you watched the video, you'd have got this.

@joanhall3718

2 ай бұрын

If you want more information click on the link to the full episode

Mushrooms and red meat is all you need. Far better sources of nutrients than plants.

@grahamskilling2147

2 ай бұрын

Of course the red meat gets its nutrients from……?

Only problem they not Digestible

Please mushrooms ?? howmany are there that you can eat without tripping or being poisoned or even die from them. They are good for you full of nutrients don t make me laugh 😂😂😂😂😂😛😛

Are organic mushrooms more nutritious?

@barb4645

2 ай бұрын

Yes

@britpopification

2 ай бұрын

Of course they are not. Just more expensive and use organically certified inputs