I grew up in a household where mushrooms were as ubiquitous as cooking oil and eggs. We picked them up on every grocery run, so they were always in our kitchen. My family mostly ate button mushrooms, ...

I’m surprised by a lot of seemingly ordinary facts, like why sleeve buttons exist and what the “most complex” word in the English language is considered to be. So you’d best believe I’m a regular ...

A team of researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has identified a compound in white button mushrooms that could potentially benefit gut health in mammals by activating a ...

The humble white button mushroom has as much, and in some cases, more anti-oxidant properties than more expensive varieties. Although the button mushroom is the foremost cultivated edible mushroom in ...

A working group has recently been formed to work on a better protection of button mushroom varieties. It's activities are firstly directed to generate consensus among the spawn/breeding companies to ...

WHATEVER HAPPENED to the simple button mushroom? It used to show up in cookbooks as part of showstopping dishes such as Beef Wellington, the crown jewel of 1960s dinner parties. Or more simply, but no ...

The chemicals present in white button mushrooms may slow the progression of prostate cancer, according to a mouse study presented virtually at ENDO 2021, the Endocrine Society's annual meeting.

With more than 14,000 identified species, the world of mushrooms reaches farther than we can possibly imagine, from numerous varieties that thrive in animal manure to the parasitic Cordyceps species, ...