National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Oxalates in edible mushrooms are the new concept for mitigating the kidney stones in humans. In the present study, a total of nine edible mushroom species were collected, out of which six were procured from the local vendors, growers and three from wild areas of West Bengal. The sporocarps of the collected mushroom were sterilized with alcohol and cleaned to detect oxalate contents in edible mushroom species. The total oxalate content of the raw, commercially grown mushrooms ranged from 44.1 to 92.3 mg/100 g DM while the values for the soluble oxalate contents of the mushrooms ranged from 36.2 to 65.2 mg/100 g DM. Apart from the three cultivars collected from the wild viz. Tremella spp., Boletus spp and Schizophylum spp., which showed a non-detectable amount of insoluble oxalates while the cultivated mushrooms showed the presence of insoluble oxalates mostly. Mushrooms harvested from the forest contained only soluble oxalate with the levels ranging from 36.2 to 44.1 mg/100 g DM in the raw tissue. Thus, we can conclude that many edible mushrooms if consumed can reduce the recurrence of kidney stones radically.
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