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Mushrooms: History



Before mushrooms were cultivated, people ate the wild varieties. The Japanese were probably the first to grow mushrooms, raising Shiitakes some two thousand years ago.

Today there are thousands of mushroom varieties in the world of which only 25 are cultivated. The rest are not palatable.