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"The Best Mushroom"
And speaking of fungus, which is what keeps tempeh together... which is healthier? Button mushrooms? Crimini mushrooms? Or Portobello?
Okay, for full disclosure this is a trick question. These are all the exact same mushroom!
Those little white mushrooms turn into Crimini, then grow up to be Portobellos. Isn't that neat?
Okay, so here's the real question. Button. Chanterelles. Morels, which incidentally should never be eaten raw or with alcohol.
Oyster mushrooms. Porcini, which is Italian for piglet. Evidently, when the mushrooms are really small they look like... piglets? Hmm...
And finally, Shiitake. This is gonna be a toughie...
Okay, so here's the graph. One's an obvious overachiever, one's a slacking underachiever. First, the slacker...
Of the 6, which is the least healthy, based on antioxidant content?
Take a second... Do you think it's the Button mushrooms? The Chanterelles? Morels? Oyster? Porcini? Shiitake?
This one's a surprise. Chanterelles mushrooms! Apparently the least healthy mushroom there is. Interestingly, plain old cheap and easy white mushrooms are way up here at #2.
So Portobello's, Crimini's also #2. Okay, but who's the superstar? Only 1 in 4 now. Who guesses Morels? Oyster mushrooms? Porcini? Shiitake?
The healthiest mushroom on the planet it seems, so far tested, is...
The... little piggie. Porcini mushrooms.