Mushrooms - Biologically distinct and nutritionally unique: Exploring a "third food kingdom"

Nutrition Today

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 301-307

  Feeney, Mary Jo ^a   Miller, Amy Myrdal ^b,c   Roupas, Peter ^d  

^a Nutrition and Agriculture Industries   (United States)

^b Farmer's Daughter Consulting   (United States)

^c Culinary Institute of America at Greystone   (United States)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

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EID: 84916889564     PISSN: 0029666X     EISSN: 15389839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NT.0000000000000063     Document Type: Review

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