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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @01:43PM (2 children)
You eat amanita muscaria, you die... death is anti aging.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday November 12 2017, @05:11PM (1 child)
You would have to eat a huge quantity of uncooked amanita muscaria to die from it. Perhaps you are thinking of amanita phalloides, also called the "death cap".
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 12 2017, @05:41PM
that's right... amantia muscaria was something I mentioned the other day about having a secondary GABA pathway in the brain.
Were it not for the hallucinatory 'side-effects' of taking too much of it, it would be a heathly food that improves the mood (which can be construed to be a 'side-effect', but tends to be overshadowed by what media prefers to paint all such substances as -- evil gateways to moral degeneracy)