Mushroom Culture

Application in mushroom biotechnology

• There has been a great upsurge in activities concerned with the use of mushroom products for medicinal purposes. Nutraceutical is important as a first step in the determination of the validity for use of the mushroom product as a prophylactic or potentially therapeutic substance.
• Mushroom nutriceutical is a new class of compounds extractable from either the mycelium or fruiting body of mushroom which may possess both nutritional and medicinal properties. When testing shows that a particular mushroom nutriceutical of known chemical structure has a recognized role in the treatment of a specific medical condition ( e.g. lentinan in the treatment of stomach cancer ), it then achieves the status of a pharmaceutical . Pharmaceuticals are used therapeutically for the treatment of a specific disease