I wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.
I wonder if there exists people who aggressively believe mushrooms are plants, similar to people who defend Pluto as a planet.
It was only in 1969 (nice) that fungi officially became its own separate kingdom.
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I overheard someone talking about veganism and said they only eat plants. I asked them about mushrooms, “of course it's fine, those are plants”.
No amount of convincing worked.So I've seen it once.
82 0 ReplyMushrooms are plants in the culinary sense. Like strawberries, blackberries and raspberries are berries in the culinary sense.
71 0 ReplyYup. Inside culinary classifications, fungi don't exist. Outside of culinary classifications, vegetables don't exist.
50 0 ReplyCulinary definition doesn't differentiate plants, but mushrooms are vegetables.
13 0 ReplySeparate culinary definitions? That's nuts!
7 0 ReplyBut not peanuts, which are legumes.
4 0 ReplyOr the stone fruit, coconuts.
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If anything is close to having a consciousness and experiencing an array of emotion, including suffering. That's a mushroom, much more than a plant.
11 0 ReplyThe mycelium, maybe. That is definitely not the part of the mushroom that you eat.
12 0 Replyso hang on, mushrooms are like uh, well not milk, but as if say a cow regrew its meat every season? or maybe like a lizard that regrows its tail?
mushrooms are weird, man
wild idea, would it be possible to hijack mycelium with animal DNA and make it grow mushroom shaped meat??
1 0 ReplyNotch funds a real life Mooshroim when?
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First time hearing this but mushroom is a protein source so from diet perspective, I see it as a meet type food. Deff not vegatable
2 0 ReplySo are chickpeas or edamame meat to you? Because they have like 5 times as much protein by weight than mushrooms.
20 0 ReplyI would go with, based totally on feelz, that no because it generally note used like that.
As you think is all super science here, trust me bro
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Mushrooms have some protein, but not very much. They aren't a very good source of protein
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