Facts & FAQs

If your oyster mushrooms dry out, use them in soups or stews. The mushrooms will be reconstituted by the liquid and your dish will taste great!

Dried mushrooms add a great flavor to your favorite breading. Simply replace half of your breading (bread crumbs, cracker crumbs, corn flake crumbs or whatever) with powdered mushrooms. Run your dried  mushrooms through a blender to get the consistency you like. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and garlic. Try the breading on chicken or fish. 

Always cook your mushrooms before eating them. That goes for ANY kind of mushroom! Cooking makes the mushroom digestible so you can use its full food value. 

Experiment! Try oyster mushrooms in casserole dishes, stir fry, pasta sauces and wherever you would use any other kind of mushroom. Make and ordinary dish into a gourmet meal!

From time immemorial  mushrooms have been revered as the best of foods. Whether served to the Pharaohs as a delicacy, provided to Greek warriors for strength, regarded as an elixir by the Chinese, or praised by the Romans as the Food of the Gods,  mushrooms  have been sought after for millennia. 

Today  scientists are actively engaged in studying mushrooms for their medicinal values. Oyster mushrooms have been shown to suppress cancer in mice and research continues on their potential antitumor activity in humans. In addition, scientists are very interested in the potential antiviral, antihypertension, and antiatherosclerosis activities of mushrooms. 

No longer are these mushrooms available to only a select few. Today thousands of people comb forest and glen to find the choicest of species. Among the best is the oyster or hiratake mushroom. the habitats preferred by these delectable mushrooms have been recreated by farmers so that now they are available to you either fresh or conveniently dried and packaged. 

 One taste of oyster stuffed steak rolls, oyster mushroom stew, or just dried mushrooms reconstituted in a wine sauce will convince you that this is truly the Food of the Gods!

Protein

Oyster mushrooms provide crude protein levels well above most other foods except meat. With up to 30% protein on a dry weight basis they provide more protein than rice (7%), wheat (13%), and milk (25%) and come close to the protein content of soybeans (39%). In addition, oyster mushrooms provide all essential amino acids, except tryptophan, in the proportions required for health. A great way to add variety to a vegetarian diet. 

Fats

With around 2% crude fat and about 79% of that small percentage as unsaturated, it is easy to see why oyster mushrooms are considered a health food. 

 Vitamins and Minerals

Mushrooms are a good source of vitamins and minerals. Oyster mushrooms provide vitamins B1, B2, B5 (niacin), B6 and B7 (biotin). They also provide proper amounts of minerals such as zinc, copper and potassium for good health

Fiber

Oyster mushrooms are high fiber mushrooms providing up to nearly three times as much fiber as the common button mushroom.

Medicinal Properties

As with most foods, clinical studies on humans are lacking. Research using rodents shows strong tumor inhibition and the ability to reduce cholesterol levels.