Mushrooms contain macronutrients that support a healthy immune system. According to the Australian Mushroom Growers Association, your immune system will benefit from mushrooms whose nutrients include: Selenium, which helps your body make antioxidant enzymes to prevent cell damage. While common varieties such as cremini or portabella mushrooms are marketed as having the most benefit, but there are dozens of varieties that taste fantastic and can bring you different benefits in more ways than simply eating them.

Mushroom soups are a winter favourite. Dried mushrooms make for a vegan style jerky. Extracts are known to compound the best of the nutrients found in mushrooms and make them easily digestible as a dietary supplement.

Mushrooms have an amazing and diverse range of applications in cold or salad dishes, warm and hot foods, soups, stews and broths and of course just as a side dish or main meal for those of us who truly enjoy the taste, texture and benefit mushrooms bring to our bodies and health care regimes.