Useful Fungi

Many edible forms of fungi are commonly used in cooking, baking, and brewing. The chemical industry also uses fungi to produce many products including citric, gluconic, and oxalic acids, enzymes for washing powder and colorful dyes.

Yeast:
Yeast is a type of fungus used in baking to make bread rise, and in brewing industry to turn sugar to alcohol.It is also used to make blood plasma substitutes, extracts high in vitamin B12, and anticoagulants.

Penicillium:
It grows on many damp substances. They are used to flavour cheese and to produce antibiotics, such as penicillin, which are used to combat against bacterial infections.




Edible Fungi:
Many of the fungi are low in food value but are eaten for their flavour. Truffles grow underground and are considered delicious.



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Mushrooms and other fungi

Neither plants nor animal, mushrooms and other types of fungi form a unique group or organisms of more than 80,000 species. Unlike plants, fungi lack the green food-making compound chlorophyll- so cannot make their own food. Instead, they release enzymes that decompose living, dead or dying organisms and absorb the nutrients and minerals released. Fungi range from dull grey mushrooms to brightly coloured toadstools.



There are many types of fungi. The fungi are divided into 5 groups based on reproduction. They are

sac fungi- Sac fungi, including morels, cup fungi and truffles produce spores, in special sac, or ascus.

Club fungi- They produce spores on club shaped fertile cells.

Blights- They produce oospores and many blights live in water.

Moulds- They produce zygospores and often grows on bread.

Imperfect Fungi- Such as athlete's foot, ring worm and thurst, have no sexual stage to their life cycle.

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