Arsenic in Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms from Southwest China.
Many species of wild-grown mushrooms are appreciated as food and also found use in traditional medicine. As arsenic is one of the most hazardous elements due to the carcinogenic risk, the contents of total arsenic in 48 species of wild-grown edible and medicinal mushrooms in China were determined by atomic fluorescence spectrometry. The results showed that the highest content was found in Scleroderma citrinum (1.70 mg kg-1 dry weight, dw), whereas the lowest content was found in Termitomyces eurrhius (0.17 mg kg-1 dw).
Institute of Medicinal Plants, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China.
Ji
J
Zhang
College of Food Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, 650201 Kunming, China.
Hong-Gao
HG
Liu
College of Food Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, 650201 Kunming, China.
Shi-Jun
SJ
Li
College of Food Science and Technology, Yunnan Agricultural University, 650201 Kunming, China.
Jie-Qing
JQ
Li
Institute of Medicinal Plants, Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Kunming, China.
Yuan-Zhong
YZ
Wang
College of Resources and Environment, Yuxi Normal University, 653100 Yuxi, China.
Tao
T
Li
D000363:Agaricales / Q000737:chemistry*; D001151:Arsenic / Q000032:analysis*; D002681:China; D005504:Food Analysis; D013054:Spectrophotometry, Atomic
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