Top 10 Legal Ways to Experience the Magic of Mushrooms

Mushrooms are delicious, loaded with nutrients, and serve as a low footprint meat substitute. But to cover all the bases about mushrooms would require a book, not a post. There are an estimated 14,000 types of mushrooms. Roughly 3,000 are edible and 700 have known medicinal properties. Also, fewer than one percent are recognized as poisonous (more about that soon).

For our purposes, we're obviously gonna avoid the poison and simply focus on the 10 types of mushrooms (organic, of course) you're most likely to encounter at your local health food store, market, or other source. But first, a little mushroom monologue:

Sure, they're fungus but all that potassium and selenium and B vitamins sure gives fungus a good name. You can buy your mushrooms, of course, but savvy granolas can do their own picking. The trick, my friends, is to learn what's edible and what's not. It's probably safer to just grow your own.

Keep reading to learn 10 Legal Ways to Experience the Magic of Mushrooms.