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Mushroom poisoning is usually the result of ingestion of wild mushrooms after misidentification of a toxic mushroom as an edible species. The most common reason for this misidentification is a close resemblance in terms of color and general morphology of the toxic mushrooms species with edible species. To prevent mushroom poisoning, mushroom ...
Edible mushrooms are the fleshy fruit bodies of numerous species of macrofungi (fungi that bear fruiting structures large enough to be seen with the naked eye). Edibility may be defined by criteria including the absence of poisonous effects on humans and desirable taste and aroma .
An edible item is any item that is safe for humans to eat. "Edible" is differentiated from " eatable " because it does not indicate how an item tastes, only whether it is fit to be eaten. Nonpoisonous items found in nature – such as some mushrooms , insects , seaweed , and so forth – are referred to as edible.
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Meat is edible raw, but it is mostly eaten cooked, such as by stewing or roasting, or processed, such as by smoking or salting. The consumption of meat (especially red and processed meat, as opposed to fish and poultry ) increases the risk of certain negative health outcomes including cancer, coronary heart disease , and diabetes .
Humans eat thousands of plant species; there may be as many as 75,000 edible species of angiosperms, of which perhaps 7,000 are often eaten. [57] Plants can be processed into breads, pasta, cereals, juices and jams or raw ingredients such as sugar, herbs, spices and oils can be extracted. [ 36 ]
They're edible. If you've finished baking a whole apple pie only to realize you forgot to take the stickers off of the fruit, fear not. The labels are perfectly edible. As with the apples, though ...
Delineation between edible and poisonous fungi is not clear-cut, so a "mushroom" may be edible, poisonous, or unpalatable. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The word toadstool appeared first in 14th century England as a reference for a "stool" for toads , possibly implying an inedible poisonous fungus.