{"id":15472,"date":"2019-03-20T17:26:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=15472"},"modified":"2019-03-20T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T21:47:01","slug":"eat-more-mushrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=15472","title":{"rendered":"Eat more mushrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nA stir-fry of Quorn, green pepper, mushrooms, and broccoil<\/em><\/p>\n

Several articles have appeared recently about the benefits of eating mushrooms at least twice a week. Something in the mushrooms apparently wards off cognitive impairment in older people.<\/p>\n

Here are two of the articles:<\/p>\n

Science Daily: Eating mushrooms may reduce the risk of cognitive decline<\/a><\/p>\n

New York Times: Mushrooms may reduce the risk of memory problems<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course you can eat them raw, but I don’t know of any better way to cook mushrooms than to stir-fry them. I’m pretty sure that I can stir-fry mushrooms in a hot wok with less oil than a skillet would need. They’re browned on the outside but succulent on the inside.<\/p>\n

These days, “baby bella” portabella mushrooms, as opposed to the white mushrooms, seem to be available just about everywhere, nice and fresh. The price is good, too.<\/p>\n

It appears that the beneficial substance in mushrooms is ergothioneine, an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A stir-fry of Quorn, green pepper, mushrooms, and broccoil Several articles have appeared recently about the benefits of eating mushrooms at least twice a week. Something in the mushrooms apparently wards off cognitive impairment in older people. Here are two of the articles: Science Daily: Eating mushrooms may reduce the risk of cognitive decline New … Continue reading “Eat more mushrooms”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15477,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15472\/revisions\/15477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}