Application of Mushroom as Food and Medicine

Abstract

The word mushroom is used through world to express the different species of fungus belongs to the order of Basidomyecets or Ascomycetes. Basidomyecets or Ascomycetes can be found everywhere in soils rich in organic matter and humus, moist wood, animals waste after heavy rain or a sudden change of temperature and soon after a few hours or day’s they disappear, leaving no sign but, mycelium [1]. As estimated by different researchers, there are over 70,000 fungi species on the world. About 2000 species (31 genera) are primarily edible mushrooms. However, about 10% of some 30 species are poisonous mushrooms and relatively small, numbers are considered as lethal [2].