Characteristics: A crimino is a young portobello. Although the crimino is darker, firmer and more flavorful than its cousin the white button mushroom, the two can be used interchangeably. Increasingly, retailers hoping to capitalize on the popularity of the portabellos are selling crimini mushrooms as "baby bellas.
Characteristics: Common in Italian cooking, dense, rich portobellos lend depth to sauces and pastas and make a great meat substitute. When portabellos are young and small, they're called criminis. If you want a bun-substitute, you can even use the mushroom's flat cap. Mushrooms of this variety are as wide as the palm of your hand, and their meaty texture stands up to grilling and stuffing or both! Alternate Names: Shitake, black forest, black winter, brown oak, Chinese black, black mushroom, oriental black, forest mushroom, golden oak, Donko.
Characteristics: In Japanese, shiitake means "oak fungus," which describes where the mushrooms can be found in the wild. These days, however, most shiitakes are cultivated. They're best identified by their umbrella-shaped brown caps, which curl under ever so slightly. Fresh shiitakes have a light woodsy flavor and aroma, while their dried counterparts are more intense.
Alternate Names: Hen of the Wood, sheepshead mushroom, ram's head, kumotake , dancing mushroom. Characteristics: From afar, this mushroom can look like a head of cabbage. Cultivated, as well as found in the woods, these mushrooms are often sold in clusters with their soft, feathery caps overlapping. This mushroom has an earthy aroma and a gamy flavor, and is native to both the northwestern United States and Japan.
They grow wild east of the Mississippi River in August and September. Chaga has been consumed for centuries in the East, usually as tea, where its health benefits are well established.
Gaining popularity in the Western hemisphere, one study tested cells that were pre-treated with a chaga mushroom extract, then treated with H to induce oxidative stress. The pretreated cells displayed less damage than cells that did not receive the chaga extract. This particular mushroom species also contains massive amounts of the natural black pigment known as melanin, which has high antioxidant levels from the polyphenols it contains. In fact, chaga has the highest ORAC score the measure of antioxidant potency of any superfood.
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