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Nutraceutical Potential of Wild Edible Mushroom Hygrocybe alwisii

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The scrub jungles of southwest India endowed with several wild edible mushrooms; hence, this study addresses the nutraceutical potential of Hygrocybe alwisii. Uncooked and cooked whole tender fruit bodies of H. alwisii were processed to assess the biochemical composition, mineral components, and antioxidant activity. The qualitative test revealed occurrence of phenols, tannins, saponins, terpenoids, cardiac glycosides, and coumarins in uncooked as well as cooked fruit bodies. The total phenolics and vitamin C were significantly higher in uncooked than in cooked samples. The FTIR analysis of uncooked sample revealed the presence of biogenic amines (N-H) as secondary amines (amine salts), it was not found in cooked mushroom samples; instead found the carboxylic acids (O–H). Except these, there were common functional groups recorded in uncooked and cooked samples. Further, elemental composition through EDS analysis revealed the differences in their elemental composition. Total antioxidant, ferrous ion chelation and DPPH radical scavenging capacities were significantly higher in uncooked than in cooked samples. The antioxidant activity of H. alwisii is comparable or higher than many edible wild mushrooms of the scrub jungles. In addition to nutritional traits, H. alwisii also possesses several bioactive compounds and antioxidant potential to defend human health. Future studies about metabolites of H. alwisii will provide more insight on its significance in human nutrition, human health, domestication, utilization and conservation.

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Authors are thankful to Dr. M. Pavithra, Department of Biosciences, Mangalore University and Dr. Sudeep Ghate, Yenepoya Research Centre, Yenepoya University for helpful suggestions. One of us (SM) is grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi for the award of Research Associate Fellowship.

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    Bijavara Ramakrishnappa Jagadish, Kandikere Ramaiah Sridhar & Hosamane Ramesh Dattaraj

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Jagadish, B.R., Sridhar, K.R., Dattaraj, H.R., Chandramohana, N., Mahadevakumar, S. (2021). Nutraceutical Potential of Wild Edible Mushroom Hygrocybe alwisii. In: Abdel-Azeem, A.M., Yadav, A.N., Yadav, N., Sharma, M. (eds) Industrially Important Fungi for Sustainable Development. Fungal Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85603-8_17

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