China is the first and Poland the fifth the greatest producers of cultivated mushrooms
worldwide. Because new species are being domesticated and gaining popularity there is a
need to study their biological activities and chemical composition. In this study, a multi-
elemental analysis was conducted on 14 culinary and/or medicinal mushroom species
cultivated in China and Poland, all of which were available in German and Polish oriental
and internet shops (Agaricus bisporus, Amauroderma rude, Auricularia auricula-judae …