Which food group do mushrooms fall under?

[Teliasen]

Well?

 

[Geekbabe]

The tasty when grilled group?

 

[gopunk]

legume?

 

[Chronoshock]

Well they're not an animal or a vegetable (they're fungi) so that basically eliminates all normal food groups. So they're really out on their own...

 

[Bryophyte]

They're considered a vegetable culinarily, I think, but they're not biologically classified as plants.

 

[PingSpike]

The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

 

[Ketteringo]

Fungi

 

[notfred]

Vegetable.

 

[SWScorch]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

haha so true. I can't stand mushrooms

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: Ketteringo
Fungi

that is what it is. And technically it isn't a vegetable since it isn't an edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of a plant. And plants are GREEN (cauliflower has green leaves for you morons)
can we just say it's food?

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

Obviously you don't know how to properly prepare them!

 

[CPA]

In the barf category.

 

[Geekbabe]

Mushrooms prepared well taste awesome and they are like zero calories!

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Atomicus

Originally posted by: Ketteringo
Fungi

that is what it is. And technically it isn't a vegetable since it isn't an edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of a plant. And plants are GREEN (cauliflower has green leaves for you morons)
can we just say it's food?

There are plenty of plants that have no green on them.

But yeah, it's a fungus, so it should be in the miscellaneous food group along with beer and nachos.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

Obviously you don't know how to properly prepare them!

I know how to prepare them just fine. Take one cup of mushrooms, throw in trash. Repeat until gone.

 

[simms]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

Obviously you don't know how to properly prepare them!

I know how to prepare them just fine. Take one cup of mushrooms, throw in trash. Repeat until gone.

BAHAHAHAH that made me LOL at work... god that was great.
can't fit it in my sig...

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: PingSpike

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

Obviously you don't know how to properly prepare them!

I know how to prepare them just fine. Take one cup of mushrooms, throw in trash. Repeat until gone.

:laugh:

 

[edro]

The same food group as Twizzlers.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

I agree 100%.

Do a google search for mushroom and "food group" and you'll get tons of places saying it is a vegetable. I've tried searching the USDA, but I keep getting large PDFs that won't download. Of course the official designation is a political designation (much like tomatoes are biologically a fruit but the government decided they are vegetables to get around tarriffs).

Edit: Page 5 of this 2 MB PDF. Mushroom is a vegetable in the USDA eyes.

 

[nakedfrog]

I know of only one reason to eat mushrooms, and it ain't because they taste good.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

They are neither plant nor animal. They are classified in the Fungi Kingdom.

 

[Ausm]

Fungus


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[Legendary]

In the "why isn't there a pizza under these" category.

 

[cKGunslinger]

You people are just crazy! Take some fresh sliced mushrooms and some sliced onions and saute them in butter and A1 sauce, then top your grilled 16oz ribeye with them, and wash it all down with a cold beer.. Holy sh1t, I'm hungry already! :beer:

 

[Atomicus]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: PingSpike
The same food group as leeches, bark and shoe leather. Things you would eat if you were starving to death and no other food was available.

I agree 100%.

Do a google search for mushroom and "food group" and you'll get tons of places saying it is a vegetable. I've tried searching the USDA, but I keep getting large PDFs that won't download. Of course the official designation is a political designation (much like tomatoes are biologically a fruit but the government decided they are vegetables to get around tarriffs).

Edit: Page 5 of this 2 MB PDF. Mushroom is a vegetable in the USDA eyes.

You agree 100%?

Wow, the ignorance of people these days. Try some matsutake mushrooms and say that to the chef's face