Mushroom-Based Supplements in Italy: Let's Open Pandora's Box.

ABSTRACT: Mushrooms and derivates are well known to the scientific community for having different health benefits and exhibit a wide range of pharmacological activities, including lipid-lowering, antihypertensive, antidiabetic, antimicrobic, antiallergic, anti-inflammatory, anticancer, immunomodulating, neuroprotective and osteoprotective actions. In Europe, medical mushrooms are mainly marketed in the form of food supplements as single components or combined with other nutraceuticals. In this context, the first peculiarity that distinguishes it is the safety established through the "history of consumption" that characterizes that mushroom. However, the cultivation of medicinal mushrooms on a large scale is performed mainly in China, where most of the production facilities do not have internationall

SUBMITTER: Risoli S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9919834 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature