The Montana Department of Health and Human Services has released its final report on an outbreak of food-related illnesses including 2 deaths and 3 hospitalizations, and many more illnesses apparently of a gastrointestinal nature. The report finds the cases were definitively correlated with consumpt…

Initially it was thought that Gyromitrin/Monomethylhydrazine (found in false morels, Gyromitra etc.) was the toxin. Currently it is considered a hydrazine but is not fully understood.

Is it something where the concentration would vary a lot depending on like storage/handling/preparation or the specific samples? What I’ve heard is that this isn’t the first time that restaurant had some version of that dish, but obviously was the first time that there were multiple deaths and hospi…

The amount of toxin does vary. Some toxins like the hydrazines are heat labile so adequate cooking removes the toxin, just don’t breathe the vapors. In addition to the FDA suggestions I would add that the first time eating a mushroom only a small portion be consumed. Wait 24 hours and if no symptom…

I take pictures of wild mushrooms sometimes but I’ve never tried eating one yet. I like that with wild berries the poisonous ones usually taste poisonous (this saved me once before I realized that elderberries are poisonous raw; they sure do taste like it). I do buy cultivated mushrooms from the far…

There are vanishingly few mushrooms that any forager will recommend eating raw. Outside of Fistulina hepatica and like, dried wood ear fungus, i almost never see it suggested. This includes morels. I’d be willing to bet too that every one of my foraging books tells people to cook their mushrooms, e…

The restaurant is claiming in a letter to a Bozeman newspaper that the FDA did not recommend against raw morels before. Maybe that is just untrue? The letter is awful and they really should have hired a crisis PR firm or something, my local sense is that that letter made many people much less sympat…

I wouldnt even know where to look to see if there was a guideline before the incident.

Ok so it looks like in 2014 a panel reccomended that the FDA should add the phrase ‘All mushrooms with the exception of truffles must be well cooked.’ to §§ 3-101.16 of their administrative guidelines covering use of specifically wild mushroom species. As far as I can tell that phraseology has not …

[image] wildskyflower: All mushrooms with the exception of truffles must be well cooked. Well, so much for those white button mushrooms in salad…

Speaking of Agaricus bisporus look up agaritine and Paul Stamets. Draw your own conclusions.

Morel Mushroom Toxicity?

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jasonhernandez74 July 21, 2023, 1:49am 12

Well, so much for those white button mushrooms in salad…

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Morel Mushroom Toxicity?

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