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The idea that a variant of the cordyceps fungi could infect a human and then somehow control their movements, as depicted in the show, is absurd, says Jashid Hameed, co-founder of Nuvedo Labs..
Hameed is among a new crop of mycophiles cultivating and promoting a range of mushrooms as health food, health supplement, even as eco-friendly packaging..
Grow The Fun Guy by Adam Shamsudeen in Kerala is a year old and offers kits for easy-to-grow organic oyster mushrooms that can be harvested within 10 days (in exotic pink and white varieties)..
Our mission is to have chefs serve a range of homegrown fungi, so that people can try an interesting new mushroom at a good restaurant and then buy it themselves and experiment with it at home, Sharan says.. He currently supplies to restaurants such as Pings Bia Hoi, Perch and Omo in NCR and a few restaurants in Pune and Bengaluru..
Mushrooms have been used in traditional medicine for centuries, and we even have our own names for certain varieties the termitomyces is called arikkoon in Malayalam and olmi in Konkani but weve lost most of our traditional links with fungi...
