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The nutritional composition of selected wild edible mushrooms from Sicily (southern Italy)

Maria Letizia GarganoGiuseppe VenturellaEristanna Palazzolo

subject

biologyNutritional compositionSettore AGR/13 - Chimica AgrariaMacrolepiota proceraMediterranean area fungi nutritional compositionbiology.organism_classificationFistulina hepaticalanguage.human_languageDietTreesSettore BIO/03 - Botanica Ambientale E ApplicataBotanyForest ecologylanguageHumansComposition (visual arts)AgaricalesLaetiporus sulphureusNutritive ValueSicilySicilianEcosystemSuillus granulatusFood Science

description

The wide consumption of wild fungi by the local population is the basis for an evaluation of the as yet unknown nutritional composition of some selected species. Wild edible mushrooms (Fistulina hepatica, Infundibulicybe geotropa, Laetiporus sulphureus, Macrolepiota procera var. procera and Suillus granulatus) were collected in a number of Sicilian (southern Italian) forest ecosystems and analysed according to standard methodologies of fungal analysis, for their basic composition (ash, water, protein, fat, carbohydrate and vitamin). The results showed that the investigated mushrooms could be suggested as a source of nutritional elements for the human diet.

https://doi.org/10.3109/09637486.2011.598850