Natural radioactivity and total K content in wild-growing or cultivated edible mushrooms and soils from Galicia (NW, Spain)

Melgar, M.J.; García, M. Villegas

doi:10.1007/s11356-021-14423-2

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“…Many studies have confirmed that mushrooms grown in polluted soils threaten human health [13,[18][19][20][21][22][23]. These studies focused on pollutants (e.g., heavy metals, organic toxicants, radioactive pollutants, or radionuclides) in mushrooms grown in polluted soils as reported in China [20,23], Iran [18,21], Poland [22,24,25], Spain [26], and Turkey [27,28]. However, further investigations on the consumption of edible mushrooms cultivated in polluted soils are needed before the association between pollutants and edible mushrooms can be more clearly understood [19].…”

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“…and Spain [26] or on Europe as a whole, e.g., Świsłowski et al [73], or on the global level, e.g., Dowlati et al [18]. (2) A study focusing on locals' perspective concerning the changing of the abundance of wild edible mushrooms, which has decreased due to direct exploitation by 31% and land use change by 38% of all taxa [74].…”

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

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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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“…Therefore, understanding the occurrence, fate, and behaviour of pollutants like potentially toxic elements in soil-growing mushrooms-human nexus is crucial for mitigating and assessing their risks to human health (Gwenzi et al 2021). Recently, enormous literatures from several countries have been published on the risks of edible mushrooms containing toxic pollutants for human health as reported in Poland (Siwulski et al 2020;Mleczek et al 2021;Ronda et al 2022), China (Wang et al 2021Ernst et al 2022), Iran (Dowlati et al 2021Karami et al 2021), Turkey (Keskin et al 2021a, b), and Spain (Melgar and García 2021). Generally, pollutants may contain organic toxicants, potentially toxic elements (heavy metals), radioactive pollutants or radioisotopes or radionuclides (Dowlati et al 2021;Gwenzi et al 2021;Karami et al 2021;Wang et al 2021;Ernst et al 2022;Ronda et al 2022).…”

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Edible Mushroom Cultivated in Polluted Soils and its Potential Risks on Human Health: A short communication

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2021

Egypt.J. Soil Sci.

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Edible mushrooms are considered an important source for human nutrition nowadays because of their high contents of bioactive compounds (e.g., vitamins, proteins, terpenoids, phenolic compounds, lipids, and polysaccharides). These active ingredients are also a crucial source for many industries particularly in the pharmaceutical and therapeutic fields as well as functional foods. This manuscript focuses on what we called mushrooms and their nutritional importance as well as the therapeutic applications of edible mushrooms. The possible risks of edible mushrooms for human health were also discussed; especially for those grown on polluted soils, representing a serious potential threat for human health. The harvested edible mushrooms obtained from such polluted areas may have highcontents of potentially toxic elements and other contaminants, which can threaten the human health causing several diseases.The sustainable solutions for producing safe edible mushrooms for human nutrition under different growth conditions are of interest global issue due to edible mushrooms being established as one of the most important sources of human foods.

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“…This exposure is mainly caused by external radiation emitted by radionuclides and their decay products. Several occupational radiation exposure assessments in the industry have been recently reported by radiation protection specialists [1][2][3][4].…”

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Determination and Distribution Map for Radionuclides in Soil Samples from Different Location by Gamma Spectrometry Using Software Analysis

2022

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The fundamental goal of the current study is to determine the mean activity concentrations of natural and artificial radionuclides of 226 Ra, 232 Th, 40 K, and 137 Cs using gamma spectrometry for three locations, in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, which are significant and vital countries in the Middle East. The mean absorbed dose rate equals 22.35, 28.96, and 43.34 nGy h -1 for Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq. The results are consistent with international reports. The dose contribution percentages for investigated locations are 24 %, 30 %, and 46 % for Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq, respectively. The obtained results were clarified by statistical measurements using one-way ANOVA test to determine the distribution and differences between the averages of the three groups under study, as they may be influenced by geological variations and human intervention. It was found that the Iraq samples followed a symmetrical, standard normal distribution, while samples from Egypt and Saudi Arabia did not. Statistically significant differences were found between the data from the three countries.

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Natural radioactivity and total K content in wild-growing or cultivated edible mushrooms and soils from Galicia (NW, Spain)

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

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

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

Edible Mushroom Cultivated in Polluted Soils and its Potential Risks on Human Health: A short communication

Determination and Distribution Map for Radionuclides in Soil Samples from Different Location by Gamma Spectrometry Using Software Analysis

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