Mushrooms are full of antioxidants that may have antiaging potential
Mushrooms may contain unusually high amounts of two antioxidants that some scientists suggest could help fight aging and bolster health, according to a team of Penn State researchers. In a study, researchers found that mushrooms have high amounts of the ergothioneine and glutathione, both important antioxidants, said Robert Beelman, professor emeritus of food science and director of the Penn State Center for Plant and Mushroom Products for Health. He added that the researchers also found that the amounts the two compounds varied greatly between mushroom species.
[...] According to the researchers, who report their findings in a recent issue of Food Chemistry, the amounts of ergothioneine and glutathione in mushrooms vary by species with the porcini species, a wild variety, containing the highest amount of the two compounds among the 13 species tested. "We found that the porcini has the highest, by far, of any we tested," said Beelman. "This species is really popular in Italy where searching for it has become a national pastime."
[...] Cooking mushrooms does not seem to significantly affect the compounds, Beelman said. "Ergothioneine are very heat stable," said Beelman. Beelman said that future research may look at any role that ergothioneine and glutathione have in decreasing the likelihood of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
"Anti-aging" buzzword news.
Also at Newsweek and New Atlas. Related PPT/PDF.
Mushrooms: A rich source of the antioxidants ergothioneine and glutathione (DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.04.109) (DX) (PubMed)
(Score: 5, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday November 12 2017, @08:28AM (8 children)
Not all of them know this. Some vegan wrote about why she went back to eating meat: vitamin b12 deficiency caused brain damage.
It's not found in plants. Most of us get it from animal blood. Vitamin B12 injections are an effective and safe treatment for a particularly cruel form of anemia, that once lead to most of the little boys who suffered it to die by age 12.
However, it is found in fungus. So when your arresting officer asks you why you are dancing naked in a public fountain, just say that you needed some nutrition.
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(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @08:51AM (4 children)
Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:
No wonder beer has been used as a currency, and was the staple beverage for much of Europe for quite some time.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:08AM (1 child)
Depends on whether your beer is filtered. But if you go back centuries or to ancient times this should have been no problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_beer [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boza [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicha [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brottrunk [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha [wikipedia.org]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvass [wikipedia.org]
Do any of these fermented beverages contain vitamin B12?
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminB12-HealthProfessional/ [nih.gov]
Reminder to try to make this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepache [wikipedia.org]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @10:57AM
B12 is soluble in water. Filtering won't remove it.
Only because they've been fortified. Yeast, like other fungi, can't synthesize B12. It's only made by bacteria, or archaea.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @11:10AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_vitamins [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:44PM
Then what provides vitamin B12 from birth to age 21, when consuming beer becomes legal in SN's home country?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @09:34AM
Translation: she went crazy and started to eat meat again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @04:43PM
She could have just "downgraded" to a vegetarian and ate eggs and milk if it was that bad.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Monday November 13 2017, @10:49AM
Not that I would know exactly, but I find this statement implausible. When slaughtered, animals are bled, so only little blood is consumed by the average citizen. Vitamin B12 is a co-factor in the so-called C1-metabolism and therefore active within cells. I would therefore surmise that the muscle tissue (aka meat) provides the bulk of the B12.