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India could become a 'mushroom superpower'
- teruakohatu 4y agoThis may be a stupid question, but is growing mushrooms in bedrooms safe? It would make sense to me that mushroom growing medium is perfect for less healthy fungus to grow as well.
- granddemolisher 4y agoDepends on the type of mushroom and cultivation method. You need to be careful with a sterilised environment. You need air filtering.
- foobiekr 4y agohttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/820538/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/820538/ is an issue, for example. So is general contamination. This seems like a terrible idea.
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- WalterGR 4y agoNot to say that growing mushrooms at home is risk-free, but that paper is about industrial production. Emphases mine: [0] "Several persons concerned with the cultivation and industrial production of this mushroom fell ill, after close contact with it over a period of some months, with exhaustion, headache, chills and fever, and cough." [0] (no snark intended - just pointing out potential differences from home cultivation)
- foobiekr 4y agoyeah, but no one is tracking home growers. the issue is spore germination in lungs or allergic hypersensitivity which will be due to exposure. I used to grow mushrooms at home, and worse, oyster mushrooms, and developed a persistent cough even for my relative low volume. it cleared up when I got rid of them, but you know, the area was just covered, covered in spores.
- matthewcford 4y agousually unsafe, as they drop a lot of spores
- malikNF 4y agoWould a good Air purifier help?
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- AlanYx 4y agoThe concern isn't contamination of the medium -- you pasteurize the medium and use enough spawn so that your preferred mushroom mycelium outcompetes other fungi and bacteria. This intentionally happens fairly rapidly (because if it doesn't, you're very likely to get some form of bacterial or fungal contamination, which usually means tossing that chunk of medium). Once the mycelium have colonized the medium, it's fairly resistant to contamination in the same way that a healthy sourdough starter is resistant to contamination. The main health concern is over spore production and inhalation of spores. If you're growing in a household environment you'll want to use a growing chamber with filtered air exchange.
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- randoglando 4y agoInteresting, one of my friends started his own mushroom-growing business called Nuvedo (https://nuvedo.com/ https://nuvedo.com/). And from reading their blog https://nuvedo.com/blog/ https://nuvedo.com/blog/ I learned that mushrooms are some kind of superfood (similar to how the west sees acai or kale?). Mushrooms probably wouldn't make too much of India's exports though, so remains to be seen how much of a superpower they could become.
- jimmySixDOF 4y agoMushrooms become a Superfood if you set them in direct sunlight for an afternoon, preferably gilles side up, to let them produce Vitamin D at large quantities.
- xbar 4y agoI hope so. It's such an efficient source of food.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoShort shelf life. Hard to grow. Prone, ironically, to decomposition. Genetics are tricky. Specialized skillsets and knowledge and equipment often necessary for cultivation. Is it more efficient than raising tasty beef? Sure. Does it still taste great? Oh yes. Is it efficient? I guess it depends on what kind of efficiency you're aiming for. I've grown oyster mushrooms multiple times before at home, and it can be difficult, rewarding, frustrating, and fun. YMMV.
- tootie 4y agoBy what metric? Aren't they pretty deficient in nutrition? Like you'd need to eat several kilos to get 2000 calories.
- Iwan-Zotow 4y ago(relatively) high protein content?
- InitialLastName 4y agoThe mushrooms in question have (roughly) 2.24g of protein per 100g[0]. Recommended daily protein for an adult man is 54g [1]. That leaves you needing to eat 2.4 kg of mushrooms every day just to achieve the protein requirements. As a comparison, you can achieve the same protein with 450g of egg[2] or tofu[3], or 200g of beef[4]. [0] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/169242/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/169242/n... [1] https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2021-03/Dietary_Guidelines_for_Americans-2020-2025.pdf https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov/sites/default/files/2021-0... [2] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/748967/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/748967/n... [3] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/174291/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/174291/n... [4] https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/746758/nutrients https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/746758/n...
- achow 4y agoTitle for both this post and that of the article ('How India could..') is misleading. The article is just narrating handful of stories on how people are growing mushrooms, India is at 2% vs China at 75% of production share, etc. Nothing about how India can increase its production to match that of China's.
- redwood 4y agoWas that production share? I assumed consumption
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- 3qz 4y agoWhat ever happened to India world superpower 2020?
- devnull3 4y agoIndia consistently disappoints the most optimists and the pessimists about its potential.
- AussieWog93 4y agoAll the smart people left.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoChina is growing mushrooms on boats in shipping containers perfectly timed to grow by the time they make it to maker. India is not catching up to that anytime soon.
- gs17 4y agoDo you have more information about this? Searching for it only got shipping containers being retrofitted for growing them on land.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoMore or less this https://www.inquirer.com/business/kennet-square-mushroom-farm-bankruptcy-chinese-imports-shiitake-20190128.html https://www.inquirer.com/business/kennet-square-mushroom-far...
- docmechanic 4y agoI should start growing my own mushrooms given that I eat them nearly every day.
- dcgudeman 4y agoWhy stop there? Why rely on any specialized labor to for your consumables? Raise your own farm animals, make your own clothes, treat yourself at home using webmd.
- AlanYx 4y agoIt's a fun little inexpensive hobby to get into if you find fungi fascinating. Oyster mushrooms in particular are very easy to grow.
- docmechanic 4y agoI've got a copy of Mycelium Running with instructions, and I don't think it's included in the long list of no no's for my apartment.