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Do you need to wash mushrooms before eating them?

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Sonny Bernhard

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โˆ™ 4y ago

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It depends. Cultivated mushrooms can be brushed off with a dry or damp cloth and be completely fine. Wild mushrooms, on the other hand, often require a more thorough cleaning, and generally should be washed. Either way, there’s no harm in rinsing them.

Mushrooms are very absorbent, so the long-held wisdom has been if you wash them, they'll soak up all that water and lose their flavor. However, several informal studies have disproven that, so rinsing your mushrooms is probably not going to ruin any recipes, especially if you rinse them before you cut them up and dry them in a salad spinner.

One scenario in which you’d want to avoid rinsing your mushrooms, though, is if you're serving them raw. The water can cause some discoloration—nothing to worry about, except that it’s not exactly pretty. Cook’s Illustrated recommends brushing them with a dry toothbrush.

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Gunnar Guggs

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โˆ™ 4y ago

Yes, wash them. Commercially grown mushrooms are often grown in rich soil-like mixtures with plenty of manure.

Also, do not eat mushrooms raw. Even common grocery store mushrooms contain compounds that may be toxic to some degree, but which can be made safer by cooking.

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Brynn Carlton

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For sure, home garden dirt may not be incredibly detrimental to health, but commercial farms use chemicals in sprays and in the soil that gets on the mushrooms that should not be consumed in more than trace amounts. Just as a general rule wash all produce.

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โˆ™ 4y ago

If they're whole than... yes.. The exposed flesh will absorb water like a sponge, so rinse mushrooms before slicing them. And be careful not to wash mushrooms until you are ready to cook them or they will turn slimy.

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Obviously you should wash mushrooms before eating. If you dont wash thent there has been a chance that you get diseases....

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NO THEY WILL GIVE YOU EYE CANCER !?!!?!!!?!?!?!?? (เธ‡ อกส˜ อœส– อกส˜)เธ‡

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heck yes, you should wash all your locally grown or out of state grown food.

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