Are You Serving Your Kids Mushrooms Daily

This question is raised because when you consider the cost of food these days, what you buy that actually has nutritional value becomes more and more important. And in the land of nutrition, mushrooms are way up there.

That is because they have so many nutrients and provide many other benefits as well. In terms of vitamins: they contain a bit of fibre; riboflavin; niacin; selenium; copper; potassium; phosphorus and more.

The benefits include: they reduce inflammation; they help fight off illness; free radicals and oxidative stress take a hit with mushrooms; many maintain they have anti-cancer properties; brain health and understanding is improved; heart disease also takes a hit with mushrooms and the gut benefits too. And there is more.

Even our environment depends on mushroom spores to reduce the natural debris that proliferates the forest floor. Then they also work with water and nutrients so plants in general can absorb phosphorus and nitrogen.

New uses and potentials for mushrooms is on-going. They do not deserve the bad wrap they get and we are learning more about how they function with trees and other living entities in our Eco-systems.

In fact, they have been found as fungal networks that help trees to absorb nutrients and water. Some trees even help neighbouring trees through this network. So when a tree is removed from the forest, that part of the network is disrupted.

Nature already has found ways to help and inspire growth. And with that thought in mind, we want our kids to grow strong and well. Considering mushrooms are a reasonable price and readily available and that even the basic button variety is cheap, there really is no reason not to take advantage.