Anthropogenic contamination leads to changes in mineral composition of soil- and tree-growing mushroom species: A case study of urban vs. rural environments and dietary implications

Global food production faces many challenges, including climate change, a water crisis, land degradation, and desertification. These challenges require research into non-traditional sources of human foods. Edible mushrooms are considered an important next-generation healthy food source. Edible mushrooms are rich in proteins, dietary fiber, vitamins, minerals, and other bioactive components (alkaloids, lactones, polysaccharides, polyphenolic compounds, sesquiterpenes, sterols, and terpenoids). Several bioactive ingredients can be extracted from edible mushrooms and incorporated into health-promoting supplements. It has been suggested that several human diseases can be treated with extracts from edible mushrooms, as these extracts have biological effects including anticancer, antidiabetic, antiviral, antioxidant, hepatoprotective, immune-potentiating, and hypo-cholesterolemic influences. The current study focuses on sustainable approaches for handling edible mushrooms and their secondary metabolites, including biofortification. Comparisons between edible and poisonous mushrooms, as well as the common species of edible mushrooms and their different bioactive ingredients, are crucial. Nutritional values and the health benefits of edible mushrooms, as well as different biomedical applications, have been also emphasized. Further research is needed to explore the economic sustainability of different medicinal mushroom bioactive compound extracts and their potential applications against emerging diseases such as COVID-19. New approaches such as nano-biofortification are also needed to supply edible mushrooms with essential nutrients and/or to increase their bioactive ingredients.

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“…China [20,23,61,62], Greece [63], Iran [18,21], Poland [22,24,25,[64][65][66], Turkey [27,28,[67][68][69][70][71][72],…”

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Edible Mushrooms for Sustainable and Healthy Human Food: Nutritional and Medicinal Attributes

et al. 2022

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“…The consumption of urban garden products, including wild edible mushrooms, can contribute to local food security and is increasing all over the world, despite the risks that they can represent due to anthropogenic contamination [1,2]. There is comprehensive evidence highlighting that urban and garden topsoils can contain high amounts of metals and metalloids.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…There is comprehensive evidence highlighting that urban and garden topsoils can contain high amounts of metals and metalloids. Wild mushrooms can grow in these areas, including highly polluted substrates, and can show a dynamic accumulation of trace metals, which would require careful assessment owing to the non-biodegradable nature of these pollutants [2]. Although the European Union has established EU standards for maximum acceptable metal concentrations in soils to be used for horticulture [3], collecting wild edible mushrooms can represent a serious risk to human health.…”

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Lead in Wild Edible Mushroom Species in Leicester, England

Jagdev,

Evans,

Sgamma

et al. 2023

Foods 2023

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“…This all happens in the Anthropocene, an era in which human activities are increasingly having a significant impact on organic communities on Earth [2], [3]. Climate change [4], [5], pollution [6], [7], deforestation [8], [9], erosion [10], [11], and contamination [12], [13] are all examples of major environmental damage due to anthropogenic practices. The problems that affect water, air, and soil resources are still a challenging task, not only for environmentalists but all residents of the globe.…”

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Radical Act and Political Withdrawal in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

Ningtyas

2022

CULTURALISTICS

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The multi-interpreted narrative of Han Kang’s novel The Vegetarian is developed on an allegory. In this study, the allegory is seen as the meaning of freedom where the subject chooses to resist social intervention through the radical Act and political withdrawal — two main practices of action in the Žižek study. This study aims to examine the practices of action demonstrated by the protagonist that resulted from her childhood trauma. By applying Žižek’s theory of radical politics, the results of the study revealed the radical Act of being a vegetarian taken by the main character as her criticism of the violent environment. Further, the subject’s political withdrawal from living as a normal human indicates that she has gone beyond the radical Act. Even though the subject collapses in her effort to transform to become a tree, her courage to start taking this action in the first place confirms that she has value as an authentic subject.Keywords: vegetarian; trauma; Žižek study; radical Act; political withdrawal; The Vegetarian

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Anthropogenic contamination leads to changes in mineral composition of soil- and tree-growing mushroom species: A case study of urban vs. rural environments and dietary implications

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Edible Mushrooms for Sustainable and Healthy Human Food: Nutritional and Medicinal Attributes

Edible Mushrooms for Sustainable and Healthy Human Food: Nutritional and Medicinal Attributes

Lead in Wild Edible Mushroom Species in Leicester, England

Radical Act and Political Withdrawal in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian

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