Lipidomic Profiling of Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus)

A 2022 study in Food Research International (Pellegrino et al., University of Perugia) gave the first detailed map of the fats in oyster mushrooms, finding 27 lipid classes rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids. The authors say it helps show the nutritional value of eating oyster mushrooms, and that a mushroom’s lipid profile can even reveal what substrate it was grown on.

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