Happy Monday CFIN members!
Here’s your weekly heads up on what’s happening on YODL and around the food world this week.
The YODL Menu
Did you notice we added a YODL Menu widget to our homepage? Now you can easily access all of our articles and keep track of what’s coming up.
Monday: The Tablesetter – October 24
Tuesday: Plastics and packaging revisited
Wednesday: Innovation at SIAL Paris (video)
Thursday: CFIN Celebrates its First Anniversary – Part 3
Friday: News File
Something to Celebrate
October 28 is Wild Foods Day! The day commemorates the edible fruits, vegetables, flowers, nuts and herbs that grow around the world without human intervention. Just a few of the wild foods that can be foraged in Canada include mushrooms, fiddleheads, leeks, berries, botanicals, and evergreen leaves and sap.
Food Facts
In 2019 Canada was the world’s second largest exporter of mushrooms, one of the most popular edible wild foods. Here are some other mushroom facts:
- There are roughly 14,000 species of mushroom grown around the world, in different sizes, shapes and colours. About 2,189 varieties are edible.
- Mushrooms are rich in vitamin D, B, potassium and antioxidants, are low in calories, and are fat, cholesterol and gluten free.
- Yartsa gunbu, the caterpillar fungus, is the world’s most rare and expensive edible mushroom, selling for around US$50,000 per pound.
- An armillaria ostoyae mushroom, also known as a honey mushroom, is the world’s oldest organism at about 8,650 years old. It covers almost 9 km2 (mostly underground) in Malheur National Forest, Oregon.
- There are more than 50 mushroom varieties than can digest and break down plastics.
Happy YODLing!
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