The preliminary investigation reveals extracts of this mushroom can provide significant results in terms of reduction in breast cancer tumour
RAJKOT: For long they have tickled your taste buds while adding nutritional value to Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Thai cuisines. But now a mushroom species, touted to be one of the costliest in the world, has also turned out to be of medicinal value.
Scientists at Kutch-based Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) have successfully cultivated – ‘cordyceps militaris’ – a mushroom species that traditionally found its use in Chinese and Tibetan herbal medicines. The scientists grew the mushrooms in 35 jars in a controlled environment in a laboratory within 90 days giving 350 grams yield. The mushroom is valued at Rs1.50 lakh a kg.
Rajkot: For long they have tickled your taste buds while adding nutritional value to Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Thai cuisines. But now a mushroom species, touted to be one of the costliest in the world, has also turned out to be of medicinal value.
Scientists at Kutch-based Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) have successfully cultivated – ‘cordyceps militaris’ – a mushroom species that traditionally found its use in Chinese and Tibetan herbal medicines. The scientists grew the mushrooms in 35 jars in a controlled environment in a laboratory within 90 days giving 350 grams yield. The mushroom is valued at Rs 1.50 lakh a kg.
New mushroom species costs Rs 1.5 lakh per kg; here s what s so special about it
GUIDE Director V Vijay Kumar said that the mushroom is often called the Himalayan Gold for its list of health benefits. He said that cordyceps can potentially prevent a range of illnesses
BusinessToday.In | May 20, 2021 | Updated 12:39 IST
Generic photo of cordyceps militaris
Be it Chinese, Italian, Japanese or even Indian, mushrooms have been, for long, part of a lot of scrumptious fare. But now a new mushroom species is touted to be of medicinal value and is priced at a whopping Rs 1.50 lakh per kg.
Called cordyceps militaris, this new breed of mushroom has always been part of Chinese and Tibetan herbal medicines. It has now been successfully cultivated by Gujarat scientists at Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) in Kutch. These mushrooms were cultivated in a controlled environment in a laboratory in 35 jars. In 90 days it yielded 350 grams.
The anticancer component of this mushroom variety has been thoroughly investigated by the institute.
| 20 May 2021 10:44 AM GMT
NEW DELHI: Scientists at the Gujarat Institute of Desert Ecology (GUIDE) in Kutch have successfully cultivated the mushroom species cordyceps militaris, which has traditionally been used in Chinese and Tibetan herbal medicine.
The mushrooms were grown in 35 jars in a controlled atmosphere in a laboratory for 90 days, yielding 350 grammes. The mushroom is worth Rs1.50 lakh per kilogramme.
The institute, which has found it effective in treating even breast cancer, has chosen to offer low-cost training to entrepreneurs as a means of making a living by cultivating mushrooms on a laboratory scale.
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