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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: Guittarman03 on November 15, 2008, 12:02:42 pm
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Just curious on you guys' take on shrooms. I think Aajonus says it's a fruit; I know at least that it's the fruiting stage of the organism's life cycle. I eat portabellas pretty regularly. Anyone have problems? Notice particular benefits? Or even just changes?
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mushrooms are not fruit, nor are they vegetables. In fact, mushrooms aren't even plants---they belong to the fungus kingdom. Genetically speaking, they are more closely related to animals than fruits or vegetables.
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Which mushrooms are safe to eat raw?
Please reply with your personal list.
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It's dangerous to pick wild mushrooms unless you have a mushroom encyclopaedia to hand before eating them. Some poisonous mushrooms can kill you - for example, the deathcap mushroom doesn't show symptoms after consumption until c.2-3 days later, by which time you suddenly need a liver-/kidney transplant or you're dead - and it's easily confused with the common field mushroom which is edible and harmless.
Re mushrooms:- I did notice that, after a while on the diet, that I found mushrooms less digestible than when on cooked diets. This was undoubtedly due to the antinutrients in mushrooms - some mushrooms have fewer antinutrients in them(don't know which ones). Perhaps soaking raw mushrooms for 24 hours, beforehand, as WAPFers do with seeds/nuts, would help re removing antinutrients.
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I used to eat a lot of portabella mushrooms every day over the summer in salads. I stopped because, like Tyler, I didn't feel they were being digested well. I believe they contributed to gas
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Yes, I think most mushrooms come out partially digested, at least when raw. A lot of roughage. I watched a video about wild bears, and the mushrooms came out partially digested. They said bears ancestors are carnivores, not omnivores. So they are not fully suited for them as food. They were american brown bears. Yellow Stone grizzly I think.
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When AV says they are fruits it's not completely incorrect since the mushroom itself is the fruiting body of the fungal organism and disperses spores like fruit disperses plant seeds.