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The extended family of wild mushrooms includes in its ranks very
tasty and beneficial species, but also highly threatening to fatal.
Choosing carefully the first and enjoying as more frequent
performances of high biological value protein, supplying precious metals
and minerals, keep away cholesterol, and if we want to try our luck in
the kitchen we have the perfect material for amazing dishes.
Mushrooms, the elixir of immortality! It is precisely this view of
scientists that prevails today, but this was true for the ancient Egyptians,
as evidenced by written 4,600 years. The Pharaoh, in fact, had adopted a
law, according to which only they and not the common people were
allowed to taste. In other cultures around the world, Russia, China,
Greece, throughout Latin America, some species of mushrooms used for
their hallucinogenic properties and their and attributed magical
properties. They deemed likely to give great power to help find lost
objects but also to lead the soul to the gods. Although mushrooms are
usually classified in the same category with vegetables, in fact it is
something completely different from them. This fungus, a kind of fruit
without flowers and chlorophyll, which grows in shady and moist
environment on a nutritional basis, such as wood (tree trunks), the
humus and more.