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Home > Diet & Nutrition > Food List > Mushrooms

MUSHROOMS

Mushrooms & Chinese NutritionNature: cooling

 

Actions: clears summer heat, lowers blood pressure, anti-tumor (especially the ling zhi "immortal mushrooms"), clears toxins, strengthens kidneys (particularly the Chinese black mushrooms).

 

Conditions: hypertension, summer irritability and other summer heat problems, tumors, high cholesterol levels.

 

Nutrition:

 

1 cup cooked (Fresh Shiitake)
 

Calories

 80

Total fat (g)

 0.3

Saturated fat (g)

 0.1

Monounsaturated fat (g)

 0.1

Polyunsaturated fat (g)

 0

Dietary fiber (g)

 3

Protein (g)

 2

Carbohydrate (g)

 21

Cholesterol (mg)

 0

Sodium (mg)

 6

Pantothenic acid (mg)

 5.2

Copper (mcg)

 1.3

Manganese (mg)

 0.3

Selenium (mcg)

 36

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