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Uses for Fungi
Human Food
- Food Examples: Button / White mushrooms, Shiitake, Oyster
- Food-Making Agents
- Brewers yeast and Bakers yeast
- Produce CO2 and Ethanol
- CO2 helps bread rise / carbonates beer
- Ethanol makes things alcoholic
- Soft Cheese
- Mycelial mat: coats the cheese curd
- Enzymes soften the cheese
- Hard Blue Cheese
- Spores added to gaps in cheese curd
Medication
- Yeast can be used as health supplement
- B-vitamins, chromium
- Penicillin: first antibiotic
- kills bacteria
- fungus uses to reduce competition
- Cultured from Penicillium chrysogenum
Hallucinogenic Fungi
- Psychotropic Mushrooms
- Pleasant hallucinations at low doses
- Paranoia at high doses
- Can cause fever and convulsions in children
Toxic Fungi
- Even raw button mushrooms can be toxic if you eat enough
- Contains Carcinogens: usually destroyed by cooking
- Several Amanita mushrooms are very toxic
- No antidote
- Toxic effects may vary by person
Which of the following is NOT a common use of fungi?
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