ເຫັດຕີນແຮດ / Brown Milk Mushroom

Use
Food
Income
Medicine
Scientific Name / Family
Macrocybe crassa (Sacc.) Pegler & Lodge / Tricholomataceae
Synonyms
Agaricus crassus Berk.
Tricholoma crassum Sacc.
Other Names
Het Tap Tao Khao, Het Tin Hat, Het Chan(Thai)
White King mushroom (Eng)
Botanical Description

The cap is from 14–24 centimeters (5.5–9.4 in) across, with rare specimens up to 40 centimetres (16 in) in diameter. Cream−white to yellow− or grey−brown with a darker centre, the cap is initially convex before expanding out and flattening, sometimes with a central bold. The crowded cream to white gills are adnexed to sinuate. The cylindrical stout white stem is 15 to 25 centimetres (5.9 to 9.8 in) high and 1.4 to 5 centimeters (0.55 to 1.97 in) across with a swollen base

Description of Use

M. crassa mushrooms are cooked in mustard oil and spices in West Bengal. They are known in Bengali as dhoodh chhatu, from the word for "milk" as they are said to smell like milk when dried. in Laos cook as soup and barbecue. The dried samples of DOA−10 contained protein, carbohydrates, ash and fat at 13.71%, 68.08%, 12.06% and 2.49% respectively. Moreover, they contained high contents of both macronutrients and micronutrients:, potassium (43,100 mg/kg), calcium (492.00mg/kg), magnesium (1,046.66 mg/kg), sodium (936.33 mg/kg), iron (283.21 mg/kg), zinc (53.79 mg/kg) and manganese (17.55 mg/kg). These results confirmed that DOA−10 is a promising strain for commercial cultivation.

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