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Published on 30th June 2017 10:56
The Health Benefits of Mushrooms.
Button mushrooms, also known as crimini mushrooms are the worlds most frequently eaten mushroom and are fast becoming a considered 'super food'.
They have been grown since prehistoric times and were consumed by hunter gatherers, unfortunately, due to their time line of existence it is difficult to pinpoint their origin, although historians think it is most likely to be Asia.
Mushrooms were thought to have special powers and the Egyptians believed the mushrooms granted them immortality and were considered a food for the Gods; whilst Folklore in Mexico, China and Russia believed that mushrooms offered them super human strength.
Mushrooms, although commonly thought of as a vegetable, are actually fungi, a living organism with no roots, seeds, leaves
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