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[aslant]

nutritional value of mushrooms:

fiber, magnesium, selenium, phosphorous, potassium.

(for megan, who asked, and for myself as future reference. kirk & i eat mushrooms so often that it is often the first thing we pick up in the produce section. but i never knew what they were good for, besides tastiness. now i know!)

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[ex-mthrtong.livejournal.com]

They're supposed to be an aphrodesiac! I'm not sure why.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i wonder if that's from the old school of sympathetic herbal medicine (cf. nicholas culpeper), where colors/shapes of plants helped similar things (like a yellow flower would help with something to do with urin/the urinary tract, etc) -- on the vague resemblance of a mushroom to a circumcised penis? but then, that's only some kinds of mushrooms; the rest look like coral or weird flat disks, etc etc.

[rmt.livejournal.com]

hello...
i've been wondering about this lately!
yum.
selenium is really good!
and fiber, i had no idea.
:)

[aslant.livejournal.com]

yum indeed :)

[bruisesroses.livejournal.com]

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i think it depends so much on how they're prepared. grilled portobella is one of my favorites, but we rarely make it. most frequently, we use them in a quick stirfry, or sauteed to make a pasta sauce base.

i think the 'meat for vegetarians' thing is kind of bogus and overplayed -- it seems like an easy 'out' for stumped chefs who'd really rather have an all-meat menu. i guess mushrooms are versatile, sort of like meat, but still. i would imagine you're somewhat sick of seeing them endlessly promoted as the vegetarian entree!!

[nevers.livejournal.com]

hehe, thanks for chasing this down! those are all really good vitamins for muscles (i.e. to avoid cramping).

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i used to eat bananas when i would get a twitchy eye muscle (does that ever happen to you?), my mom always told me the potassium would help loads.

(though now i wonder how much potassium is lost if we cook the mushrooms? we never eat them raw.)

[nevers.livejournal.com]

yep, that does happen to me. i always thought it was just due to stress and lack of sleep, though. hmm.