Mushrooms indigenous to Nigeria as potential source of myconutraceuticals - Perspective paper

作者：Olusegun Oyetayo Victor^*

来源：Agro Food Industry Hi-Tech, 2007, 18(6): 20-22.

Mushrooms have high contents of qualitatively good protein, crude fibre, minerals and vitamins but are poor sources of lipids. apart from their nutritional potentials, they are also known to possess promising anticancer, immunostimulatory, cardiovascular, hypocholesterolaemic and antibacterial effects. they are sources of vast and yet largely untapped powerful biopharmaceuticals. It has been estimated that about 140,000 mushrooms are on earth and only 10 percent are known. A large number of the unknown mushroom resides in Africa and maybe largely in Nigeria because there are no sufficient data on indigenous mushroom in this part of the globe. This write up intend to direct attention of researchers into the potential of nigerian indigenous mushroom as sources of new myconutraceuticals.

• 出版日期2007-12
• 单位中国科学院微生物研究所