Nutritional Profile and Health Benefits of Ganoderma lucidum “Lingzhi, Reishi, or Mannentake” as Functional Foods: Current Scenario and Future Perspectives

AF El Sheikha - Foods, 2022 - mdpi.com
Ganoderma lucidum has a long history of medicinal uses in the Far East countries of more
than 2000 years due to its healing properties. Recently, G. lucidum has come under …

[HTML][HTML] Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant properties from mushrooms

C Sánchez - Synthetic and systems biotechnology, 2017 - Elsevier
Preventive medicine and food industry have shown an increased interest in the
development of natural antioxidants, since those most commonly used synthetic antioxidants …

[HTML][HTML] β-Glucan extracts from the same edible shiitake mushroom Lentinus edodes produce differential in-vitro immunomodulatory and pulmonary cytoprotective …

EJ Murphy, C Masterson, E Rezoagli, D O'Toole… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Coronavirus pneumonia is accompanied by rapid virus replication, where a large number of
inflammatory cell infiltration and cytokine storm may lead to acute lung injury, acute …

Pleurotus ostreatus: an oyster mushroom with nutritional and medicinal properties

K Deepalakshmi, M Sankaran - Journal of Biochemical …, 2014 - jbiochemtech.com
Mushrooms constitute an integral part of the normal human diet and in recent times, the
amounts of consumption have been raised greatly, which includes variety of species. The …

Antiviral bioactive compounds of mushrooms and their antiviral mechanisms: a review

DJ Seo, C Choi - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mushrooms are used in their natural form as a food supplement and food additive. In
addition, several bioactive compounds beneficial for human health have been derived from …

Bioactive metabolites from macrofungi: ethnopharmacology, biological activities and chemistry

DD De Silva, S Rapior, E Sudarman, M Stadler, J Xu… - Fungal Diversity, 2013 - Springer
Exploration of natural sources for novel bioactive compounds has been an emerging field of
medicine over the past decades, providing drugs or lead compounds of considerable …

Advances in lentinan: Isolation, structure, chain conformation and bioactivities

Y Zhang, S Li, X Wang, L Zhang, PCK Cheung - Food hydrocolloids, 2011 - Elsevier
Lentinan, a β-(1→ 3)-d-glucan isolated from a common edible mushroom, Lentinus edodes,
is known as a biologically active macromolecules with very strong host-mediated anti-cancer …

Medicinal mushrooms in prevention and control of diabetes mellitus

DD De Silva, S Rapior, KD Hyde, AH Bahkali - Fungal diversity, 2012 - Springer
Diabetes mellitus is a life-threatening chronic metabolic disease caused by lack of insulin
and/or insulin dysfunction, characterized by high levels of glucose in the blood …

Nutritional composition and nutraceutical properties of the Pleurotus fruiting bodies: Potential use as food ingredient

JA Carrasco-González, SO Serna-Saldívar… - Journal of Food …, 2017 - Elsevier
Pleurotus is a genus of edible mushrooms widely cultivated throughout the world in a variety
of substrates and conditions which have an impact on the content of macronutrients and …

[HTML][HTML] Addition of mushroom powder to pasta enhances the antioxidant content and modulates the predictive glycaemic response of pasta

X Lu, MA Brennan, L Serventi, J Liu, W Guan… - Food chemistry, 2018 - Elsevier
This study reports the effects of addition of mushroom powder on the nutritional properties,
predictive in vitro glycaemic response and antioxidant potential of durum wheat pasta …