Edible Mushroom Cultivated in Polluted Soils and its Potential Risks on Human Health: A short communication

Abstract

Edible mushrooms are considered an important source for human nutrition nowadays because of their high contents of bioactive compounds (e.g., vitamins, proteins, terpenoids, phenolic compounds, lipids, and polysaccharides). These active ingredients are also a crucial source for many industries particularly in the pharmaceutical and therapeutic fields as well as functional foods. This manuscript focuses on what we called mushrooms and their nutritional importance as well as the therapeutic applications of edible mushrooms. The possible risks of edible mushrooms for human health were also discussed; especially for those grown on polluted soils, representing a serious potential threat for human health. The harvested edible mushrooms obtained from such polluted areas may have highcontents of potentially toxic elements and other contaminants, which can threaten the human health causing several diseases.The sustainable solutions for producing safe edible mushrooms for human nutrition under different growth conditions are of interest global issue due to edible mushrooms being established as one of the most important sources of human foods.