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I recently started eating raw portabella mushrooms because they are mentioned in "The End of Alzheimer's" as the most potent mushroom species for neuroprotectiv
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
I recently started eating raw portabella mushrooms because they are mentioned in "The End of Alzheimer's" as the most potent mushroom species for neuroprotective effects.
I had NO idea they can be cancerous. So thank you.
The book does not mention if they should be cooked or not. I eat them raw for convenience. I'll stay cooking them now, will that help?
- pengaru 6y agoThey taste better cooked anyways, lots of umami once you get the juices collecting in the gills. It's a very steak-like experience...
- fogihujy 6y agoHad no idea about cancerous effects, but the taste is amazing. As someone who eats meats regularily, my favourite vegan burger is with a grilled portabello in it - it beats all the over-processed stuff they sell nowadays.
- oblib 6y agoHave you had shiitakes? I love portabellos too but shiitakes are just amazing. I have to think they'd made an awesome vegan burger. Just the thought makes me want to try that.
- fogihujy 6y agoHaven't tried making a burger with them. I'll add it to the todo list for this summer. :D
- pengaru 6y agoAgreed, processed meat substitutes are a solution looking for a problem. Mushrooms are already basically meat.
- cameronh90 6y agoI don't like mushrooms. Texture is too weird for my autism. So the meat substitutes are good for me...
- pibechorro 6y agoMushrooms = actually nutritional. Fake meat = highly processed oils which are not. Just because you are on the spectrum does not mean junk food is healthy, kindly from another autistic.
- cameronh90 6y agoI didn't say it was healthy.
- jraph 6y agoTo each their own, that's the definitive answer for me. I am happy to have both options anyway.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoWith all due respect, what do autism and texture have to do with each other?
- cameronh90 6y agoAutistic people often have sensory issues that lead to strong aversions to various types of food (among other things). Very commonly autistic people dislike banana
- mleonhard 6y agoMushrooms have very few calories and little protein or fat. A person becomes hungry again soon after eating mushrooms. The only thing they have in common with meat is umami flavor.
- solomonb 6y agocancerous or not, the body is terrible at digesting uncooked mushrooms and you probably aren't getting much nutrition from eating them raw.
- frombody 6y agoIf you're looking for neuroprotective effects, you want to be cooking them to break down the chitin wall.
- dTal 6y agoTo be fair, cancer does indeed lower your chances of getting Alzheimers.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y agoWhat? Never heard this before. Do you have a source?
- dTal 6y agoIt was a flip remark. The point is it increases your chances of early death. Can't get Alzheimers if you're dead.