Mushrooms

Vendor delisted for mislabelling mushrooms at Hyperpure warehouse: Zomato

Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal on Monday said the company has delisted the vendor responsible for putting "incorrect packaging date" on mushroom packets that were found during an FSSAI inspection at the Hyperpure warehouse in Hyderabad. During the inspection, a Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) team had reportedly found future-dated mushrooms at the warehouse concerned. Goyal clarified that the incorrect packaging date on the 90 button mushroom packets was due to a "manual typing error on the vendor's side". "Hello all - just want to clarify that the fssai team noted that 90 packets of button mushrooms had incorrect packaging date - these were already identified by our warehouse team and were rejected during an inward QC. This is not usual, and was due to a manual typing error on the vendor's side. Still, the concerned vendor has been delisted from our database. At Hyperpure, we have stringent inward guidelines and tech systems that helped our teams to identify this ..

US treasury secretary Janet Yellen says she ate 'magic mushrooms' in China

The dish was made from Lanmosa asiatica mushrooms, considered poisonous as they can be hallucinogenic

Mushroom farmers upbeat over commercial farming of Shiitake in J&K

Farmers engaged in mushroom cultivation in Jammu and Kashmir are upbeat over the government announcement to introduce one of the costliest mushrooms 'Shiitake' for commercial farming in the Union Territory. The agriculture department will launch commercial farming Shiitake in September after successful field trials of the cultivation of this Japanese-origin variety. "We are happy. I have heard it (Shiitake mushroom) is being launched in September (for commercial farming). We will go for it," Mushroom farmer Rahul Sharma told PTI. Sharma, who owns a 4,000-bag unit in the border belt of Marh, said that it is grown in states like Haryana, but it is good news that it will be grown in Jammu for the first time. "Its cost and market value is very good. Farmers would be largely benefited. For Jammu and Kashmir, it will be good to cultivate Shiitake mushroom, as you can grow anywhere due to suitable climate," he added. Like him, Arvind Kumar, who has been into mushroom farming for the last

Scientists exploring medicinal mushrooms, Chinese herbs to treat Covid

Mushrooms were chosen because of their long history of use and recent evidence of immune-enhancing and antiviral effects

Mushrooms could help fight ageing, boost health

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