Medicinal plants have great importance these days and the better way to
provide medicines is to give them as food. Mushrooms are one of the good sources of
food that has good nutritional and therapeutic value. They are the constituents of a
good diet which boosts up the immune system and helps to fight diseases like cancer.
From ancient times people of China believed that the mushrooms have anti-aging
properties and they had been consuming mushrooms as their important diet. Along with
the anticancer and anti-aging properties, they increase brain activity. One major
advantage of mushrooms over other vegetables is their growth period, i.e., they can
grow around the year while many vegetable plants are seasonal. The present review
article is focused on the nutritional and therapeutic properties of button mushrooms in
more detail, which will help the researchers working in this area to design further
experiments and explore more on this plant.
Keywords: Anticancer Activity, Anti-Diabetic Activity, Button Mushroom,
Nutritional Properties, Therapeutic Value.
