Could mushrooms be the health-booster you’re missing?

Loaded with vitamins and minerals and practically fat-free, mushrooms are a nutrition powerhouse. Lisa Salmon finds out more.
Could mushrooms be the health-booster you’re missing?

Mushrooms: a fat-free superfood

ALTHOUGH mushrooms are a fungi and in a kingdom of their own, separate from plants and animals, the good news is that they still count as one of your five-a-day.

An 80g portion — that’s about 15 button mushrooms, four large closed cup mushrooms, or one large flat mushroom — is packed with nutrition and lines up with fruit and vegetables as a useful and tasty part of a healthy diet.

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