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Mushrooms Did you know that Mushrooms, with 92 per cent waterconent, known as the meat of the vegetable world, are a nutrient-rich edible fungi, a popular superfood which have their passionate followers as well as their aggressive critics? Mushrooms, a terminology derived from the French word mousseron in reference to moss (mousse), are a macrofungus with a distinctive spore-bearing fruiting body. They grow either above ground (epigeous) or below ground (hypogeous), and are fruiting bodies large enough to be seen with the naked eye and to be picked by hand. They are termed ascomycetes or basidomycetes, edible or non edible, poisonous, and medicinal species, flesh or non-fleshy textures microfungi. Mushroom biology differs from Mushroom science, which is defined as the decipline that is concerned with the principles and practices of mushroom cultivation, in that it includes Mushroom biotechnolgy. Mushrooms entered the realm of haute cuisine after millennia of...