Medicinal mushroom: An ancient culture towards new lifestyle

Mushroom have been used in health care of treating simple and common diseases like skin diseases and pandemic diseases. The review is aimed at accumulating the health promoting benefits of edible mushroom through gut microbiota. vf Edible mushroom are excellent source of proteins, minerals, polysaccharides unsaturated fatty acid and secondary metabolites. Mushroom rich in fat soluble vitamins along with ergosterol content are through to be only the vegetarian source for vitamin D. since ancient time's plant as well as fungus source of medicinal compound have continued to play a dominat role in maintenance of human health. Mushroom lose their commercial value within few days like water lose, microbial attack and browning. Thise information beneficial for health, which are great interest in the medical nutrition industry which is an industry that emerged for the convergence between the food and phrma industries.