Summary
This one's all about mushrooms - not so much your chestnut, button or portobellos from the supermarket, but more the likes of lion's mane, reishi and chaga. These much-feted fungi are claimed to offer all sorts of benefits, from relaxation to disease-fighting properties. We've had loads of questions about products containing them, particularly around mushroom coffee. Is there any evidence that it's better for you than your regular brew? Listener Leon is fond of it - and wants to know if there's any science to back up his inclination. To get him some answers, we hear from a registered nutritionist and a mycologist (fungi expert) who's just written a book all about medicinal mushrooms. So are they the best thing since Sliced Bread?
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PRESENTER: GREG FOOT PRODUCER: TOM MOSELEY
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
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| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
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| 0:34.4 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:45.7 | Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that searches for the facts behind the fats. |
| 0:53.3 | My mission here is simple. Find out if your suggested wonder products are the best things since sliced bread or marketing BS. |
| 0:57.8 | If you have seen something promising to make you happier, healthier or greener and you'd like me to investigate its bold claims, please do send it over. |
| 1:01.7 | Either on email to slice.d.bred at BBC.co.com.uk or as a WhatsApp voice note to 07-443-307, |
| 1:10.3 | which is just what Leon Bouch in London did. |
| 1:16.0 | I've been a coffee drinker for many years, but a year ago, a good friend of mine |
| 1:21.0 | recommended I try mushroom coffee. At the time I thought, nah, this is just another fad and I'm not falling through it, but |
| 1:30.3 | I gave in, bought a packet and I have to admit I've never looked back. |
| 1:36.3 | I now drink around two cups a day, light of taste, barely drink normal coffee and I feel |
| 1:42.3 | quite good about it. I like how it makes me feel. |
| 1:47.6 | Now, mushroom coffee is marketed as having certain health benefits. Is it possible that drinking |
| 1:55.4 | mushroom coffee can increase my energy levels, can improve my focus and memory, and boost my immune system. |
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