From: gunilla.fagerholm@_NO_JUNK_telia.com   
      
   Thanks to all of you for helping me with answers.   
      
   Please continue telling me all you know about why pleurotus is good   
   for the health. Since i myself have no medical training it is a little   
   confusing with the medical vocabulary but i will do my best in trying   
   to understand   
      
      
   I will now give you the reason why i need this info.   
      
   Some years ago we started a mushroom growing project in an African   
   village. The rurals learnt how to grow pleurotus in a simple way. For   
   different reason we had to leave and the project died. Now they want   
   to restart growing and we want to help them find a market for their   
   dried mushrooms. (Of course we also want the growers themselves to eat   
   them).   
   We think it would be wonderful if we could persuade the schools, the   
   hospitals and the orphanages to buy their dried pleurotus ostreatus   
   and serve it mixed in the normal traditional food.   
      
   35% of the villagers have hiv. There is of course also malaria,   
   water-borne diseases, hunger etc. They really need to eat more   
   nutritious food but we must find a way, without lying, to tell them   
   why these mushrooms. (There is an old tradition of eating mushrooms   
   since there is a rainforest nearby. Agaricus also grow wild in the   
   villages during the rainy season).   
      
   So that is the story. If we can make them understand that the mushroom   
   is good for them then the individual growers might find a market so   
   that they can get enough money to pay the school fees for at least one   
   of his children.   
      
   Hope to hear from you   
   Gunilla Fagerhholm   
      
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