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Exploring Edible Mushrooms: Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge about edible mushrooms and their health benefits. This quiz will challenge you to identify various aspects of mushrooms consumed for health and recreational purposes.

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1 [4] Mushrooms consumed for health reasons are known as ________.

2 ________ is edible without special preparation.

3 While ________ are occasionally consumed for recreational purposes, they can produce severe nausea and disorientation, and are therefore not commonly considered edible mushrooms.

4 Mushrooms are cultivated in at least 60 countries with ________, the United States, Netherlands, France and Poland being the top five producers in 2000.

5 Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruiting bodies of several species of ________.

6 Ancient Romans and Greeks ate mushrooms, particularly the ________.

7 [1] Edibility may be defined by criteria that include absence of poisonous effects on humans and desirable taste and ________.

8 [11] International mushroom research continues today, with a focus on mushrooms that may have hypoglycemic activity, anti-________ activity, anti-pathogenic activity, and immune system enhancing activity.

9 Some mushrooms that are edible for most people can cause ________ in some individuals, and old or improperly stored specimens can cause food poisoning.

10 ________ is edible if parboiled to leach out toxins.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the cap of the suede bolete, a species of edible mushroom, has soft velvety skin.
  • the mushrooms Boletus zelleri, B. mirabilis, Suillus americanus, S. brevipes, S. lakei, and Leccinum manzanitae are all examples of edible boletes.
  • the spiny puffball (pictured), an edible fungus, can inhibit the growth of several bacteria pathogenic to humans.
  • the grey knight (pictured) is a small, edible mushroom that is often confused with the larger and poisonous dirty trich.
  • though the mushroom Lactarius subdulcis (pictured) is considered edible, it has a taste similar to ivy.
  • the highly-regarded edible mushroom Cortinarius caperatus is known as the granny's nightcap in Finland.
  • the fungus family Tremellaceae includes both commercially cultivated edible species as well as yeast-like human pathogens.
  • the edible mushroom Marasmius alliaceus tastes and smells like garlic.
  • Lactarius blennius has been described by various mycologists as edible, inedible and even poisonous.
  • Hygrocybe coccinea (pictured) is a bright red edible mushroom that grows in the grasslands of Europe and under Rhododendron in Nepal.
  • the edible mushroom swamp yellow brittlegill (pictured) has a fruity smell.
  • the edible mushroom Agaricus abruptibulbus grows better in the presence of the normally toxic element cadmium.
  • the edible mushroom Hygrophorus agathosmus smells like almonds.
  • the edible mushroom Boletus barrowsii is popular with maggots, who often beat mushroomers to their goal.
  • a Maginot Line fortification became a mushroom farm after it was deactivated in 1972.
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