Delicious, chewy white button mushroom is the most common variety of edible mushrooms cultivated and consumed worldwide. Common buttons are the fleshy fruit bodies in the Basidiomycetes family.

Health benefits of Button mushrooms

Button mushrooms are very low in calories. They offer essential protein and amino acids, sufficient levels of mineral, vitamins, and fiber.

Button mushrooms carry vitamin D in the form of ergocalciferol. Vitamin D is an essential fat-soluble vitamin required for bone growth and calcium metabolism.

It carries excellent levels of selenium, copper, phosphorus, zinc, and potassium.

100 g contain 0.318 mg or 37% RDI of copper. It is essential for blood cell production (hemtopoiesis), neurotransmission, and as a co-factor for oxidative enzymes.

100 g of buttom mushrooms carry 9.3 μg or 17% RDI of selenium. Selenium is co-factor nutrient for the antoxidant enzyme, glutathione peroxidase. It plays a critical role in the integrity of liver and heart tissues.

It is rich in the B-complex group of vitamins like thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B-6 (pyridoxine), and pantothenic acid.

100 g of buttom mushrooms carry 0.402 mg or 37% RDI of riboflavin (vitamin B-2). Riboflavin deficiency could lead to ulcers in the mouth, cracked lip and mouth angles (angular stomatitis), scaly skin rashes, etc.