Efficacy Button mushrooms

Button mushrooms are the type most widely cultivated mushrooms in the world, approximately 38% of total world production of mushrooms. Button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) or a champignon mushroom-shaped food that is almost round like buttons and clean white, beige, or brown. In English as a table mushroom, white mushroom, common mushroom or cultivated mushrooms. In France called champignon de Paris.

Button mushrooms sold in the form of fresh or canned, usually used in a variety of Western dishes such as omelets, pizza, casserole, gratin, and lettuce. Button mushrooms have a unique scent, there are some people who call it a little sweet or like "meat".

Fresh button mushrooms fat free, sodium free, and rich in vitamins and minerals, like vitamin B and potassium. Button mushrooms are also low in calories, 5 pieces of medium-size mushrooms equal to 20 calories.

Efficacy Button mushrooms
Champignon mushroom (button), a source of vegetable protein. and able to reduce the risk of blockage of coronary arteries in patients with hypertension and heart disease due to cholesterol. Can be used as raw materials of cosmetics and skin smoothing formula medicine.

Champignon, mushroom compost or button mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus, Agaricus campestris) is a species first cultivated wild mushrooms since hundreds of years ago. This fungus has the organoleptic (taste, aroma and appearance) is high, exciting, and delightful, than the value of a profitable business because of the many fans.

Button mushrooms are particularly popular in the region has four seasons as some regions in Europe, the United States, also Asia and Africa. In fact, through engineering technology by choosing the high ground and maintaining indoor environmental regulation, at several places in Indonesia such as Bandung, Dieng, Bumiayu, and Brastagi, cultivation of mushrooms can be implemented properly.
Mushroom, mushroom rice, supa pare (volvaceae Volvariella, Volvariella esculenta) is a type of wild mushrooms are cultivated both for having organoleptic value, good business, and profitable, especially in the tropics.

Champignon mushroom rice and mushrooms, including non-timber group. While the shiitake mushrooms or hioko and donko (Lentinus edodes) is a fungus that first timber of wild life (as an example is found in the forests of East Kalimantan) with a stick on dry or weathered wood.

Wood fungus was first cultivated it also has high organoleptic value and medicinal, so quickly accepted by society. Shiitake for example, can lower cholesterol and sugar content in blood.

In the late 1990s, the order of the type of commercial yeast produced on a large scale everywhere because it has huge business value to billions of U.S. dollars, among others: champignon, produced up to 1.25 million metrik-ton/tahun. Shiitake produced up to 265,000 metrik-ton/tahun, mushroom (manufactured to 70,000 metrik-ton/tahun), and there is a new additional type, namely winter mushroom (Flammulina velutipes) with production of up to 68,000 metric tons. Ear fungus, supa lember or Hiratake (Auricularia polytricha) produced up to 65,000 metric tons.

In Indonesia in terms of amount, the highest ranking are retained by the fungus of rice, followed by ear mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and champignon. However, judging from the business value and extent of trade, then the first rank is held by a shiitake mushroom, champignon, ear fungus, followed by mushroom rice. You see, mushroom rice in Indonesia related to pesticide residues has been dragged along with rice straw (as a raw material cultivation), so that only eligible for local consumption only.

In the highlands

Champignon which was originally produced in the Dieng plateau highlands are now moving to Bumiayu (Brebes-Noida border) and Pangalengan (Bandung). This fungus appears to have potential markets and generate higher income, both as fresh commodity (untreated) or as processed commodities grown in Indonesia is Agaricus bisporus. Seed from the Netherlands, Taiwan, and the United States.

The color white mushroom Agaricus bisporus with hood size 3-5 cm in diameter. High stalk to 6 cm, while the size of buds 2-3 cm diameter. There are also types of Agaricus campestris from Australia and France, which has a size and color is almost identical to the first.

Unfortunately Indonesia does not include champignon producer countries, although Indonesian products in the form of fresh or processed products have entered the world market. The Indonesian market is primarily in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States, although still in limited quantities.

United States listed as the first country's largest producer of champignon (246,000 metric-tons), followed by France (160,000 metric-ton), China (140,000 metric-tons), Netherlands (93 000 metric-ton), English (84 000 metric-ton), and Taiwan (59 000 metric-ton). Other countries which include producing fungi are Italy, Spain, Germany, South Korea, Canada, and so although the average is still below the 15,000 metric-ton.