[HIGHLIGHTS] White fuzz on mushrooms: Do you have to throw away the mushrooms?

Nothing beats a sauce or dish with fresh mushrooms. You can find beautifully fresh specimens at the weekly market or in bulk in the supermarket.

The color of the slats changes with age: “the darker the older, from gray-pink to light brown to black-brown,” says the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety. Mushrooms with colored fuzz, with weeping and rotten spots or with an unpleasant smell should be disposed of, as an infestation with mold that is harmful to health can be the cause.. Whether brown or white - mushrooms are ideal in a vegetable stir-fry, in homemade scrambled eggs or as a topping on pizzas. The white mushrooms are particularly popular, says the consumer advice center on the lebensmittel-forum.de platform: “Mushrooms are basically the fruiting bodies of the'mycelium' that actually grows underground.’ As long as the mycelial fluff on an edible mushroom is white, there is no danger”