[TedDoesntTalk]

I recently started eating raw portabella mushrooms because they are mentioned in "The End of Alzheimer's" as the most potent mushroom species for neuroprotective effects.

I had NO idea they can be cancerous. So thank you.

The book does not mention if they should be cooked or not. I eat them raw for convenience. I'll stay cooking them now, will that help?

[frombody]

If you're looking for neuroprotective effects, you want to be cooking them to break down the chitin wall.

[solomonb]

cancerous or not, the body is terrible at digesting uncooked mushrooms and you probably aren't getting much nutrition from eating them raw.

[pengaru]

They taste better cooked anyways, lots of umami once you get the juices collecting in the gills. It's a very steak-like experience...

[fogihujy]

Had no idea about cancerous effects, but the taste is amazing. As someone who eats meats regularily, my favourite vegan burger is with a grilled portabello in it - it beats all the over-processed stuff they sell nowadays.

[oblib]

Have you had shiitakes?

I love portabellos too but shiitakes are just amazing. I have to think they'd made an awesome vegan burger. Just the thought makes me want to try that.

[fogihujy]

Haven't tried making a burger with them. I'll add it to the todo list for this summer. :D

[pengaru]

Agreed, processed meat substitutes are a solution looking for a problem. Mushrooms are already basically meat.

[mleonhard]

Mushrooms have very few calories and little protein or fat. A person becomes hungry again soon after eating mushrooms. The only thing they have in common with meat is umami flavor.

[cameronh90]

I don't like mushrooms. Texture is too weird for my autism. So the meat substitutes are good for me...

[jraph]

To each their own, that's the definitive answer for me.

I am happy to have both options anyway.

[pibechorro]

Mushrooms = actually nutritional. Fake meat = highly processed oils which are not.

Just because you are on the spectrum does not mean junk food is healthy, kindly from another autistic.

[cameronh90]

I didn't say it was healthy.

[TedDoesntTalk]

With all due respect, what do autism and texture have to do with each other?

[cameronh90]

Autistic people often have sensory issues that lead to strong aversions to various types of food (among other things). Very commonly autistic people dislike banana

[dTal]

To be fair, cancer does indeed lower your chances of getting Alzheimers.

[TedDoesntTalk]

What? Never heard this before. Do you have a source?

[dTal]

It was a flip remark. The point is it increases your chances of early death. Can't get Alzheimers if you're dead.