From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   Rusty Hinge wrote:   
   >   
   > Most authorities (qv Dr. John Ramsbottom, Mushrooms and Toastools, New   
   > Naturalist Series, Collins) recommend not eating specimens which are   
   > beginning to decompose or which are maggoty, just because of the risk of   
   > encountering modified alkaloids.   
   >   
   This is a very interesting question; How do lactic acid bacteria modify   
   alkaloids and other chemicals and toxins in mushrooms? Pleurotus   
   ostreatus is known to contain a hemolysin that is destroyed by cooking.   
   But, raw P. ostreatus is pickled and eaten in Thailand; See (.pdf format):   
   http://tinyurl.com/y3swslu   
      
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