Welcome to the Nutrition Science Podcast, where we help you cut through the noise and make informed science-based decisions about nutrition and your health.

Welcome back to another episode of the Nutrition Science Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez, and today we are going to be introducing a new type of episode that I'm going to be publishing more of in the future.

So today we are going to be spotlighting one specific food.

That food today is going to be mushrooms.

So what I want to do in this episode is talk a little bit about the nutritional value of mushrooms,

some of the scientific research behind some of the potential

health benefits of mushrooms, and then give you some tips on how you can include mushrooms

in your diet in a way that is likely to benefit and support your long-term health.

And transparently, my goal with this episode is to get you to include mushrooms in your

grocery list next time you go shopping and to get you to include mushrooms in your grocery

list next time you go shopping and figure out ways to include them in your diet more regularly

because I think they are a very underrated food that a lot of people don't eat enough of.

All right.

So let's go ahead and get into the episode.

So one of the cool things about mushrooms is they aren't technically a plant or an

animal and they have a unique nutritional profile as a result.

Mushrooms have had a long history of use as both a food and a medicine for thousands of

years from Shataki mushrooms that were cultivated in Asia thousands of years ago to the

porcini mushrooms that are prized in Italian cooking,

to the white button mushrooms that most of us buy in grocery stores.

Mushrooms have been a part of the human diet and medicine cabinet for thousands of years.

So let's start off by quickly talking about some of the different types of mushrooms.

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