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Cordyceps Turns Old Rice and Shellfish Waste Into Food

Cordyceps Turns Old Rice and Shellfish Waste Into Food

Cordyceps

What they found

Adding 5% crayfish-shell chitin waste to aged rice raised cordyceps yields by 17% and boosted cordycepin.

Adding 5% crayfish-shell chitin waste to aged rice raised cordyceps yields by 17% and boosted cordycepin.

The number

yields increased by 17%, from 9.8g to 11.5g

How solid is it?

Field study

Field study

Cultivation trial

Cultivation trial

Evidence ladder: Lab dish → Animal → Early human → Strong human. Reviews summarize earlier research.

At a glance

Latin name

Cordyceps militaris

Cordyceps militaris

Compound

cordycepin; chitin

cordycepin; chitin

Published in

Journal of Fungi

Journal of Fungi

Covered in Shroom Scan

Section

GROWING & GOURMET

GROWING & GOURMET

As it ran in Shroom Scan

Trash to Treasure

Trash to Treasure

Cordyceps mushrooms (Cordyceps militaris) successfully turned old rice and shellfish waste into protein-rich food. When 5% chitin waste (from discarded crayfish shells) was added to aged rice, yields increased by 17%, from 9.8g to 11.5g of mushrooms per bottle and they also produced more bioactive compounds like cordycepin.

Cordyceps mushrooms (Cordyceps militaris) successfully turned old rice and shellfish waste into protein-rich food. When 5% chitin waste (from discarded crayfish shells) was added to aged rice, yields increased by 17%, from 9.8g to 11.5g of mushrooms per bottle and they also produced more bioactive compounds like cordycepin.

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