Recipe by Symone & Chantel – Double Dose of Vitamin C
We’ve come up with a simple and “healthier” breakfast taquitos recipe using crimini mushrooms that we think you’ll want to make again and again. Instead of deep frying the taquitos we bake them in the oven. It is a recipe that the kids can help out with and that the whole family can enjoy!
BY TAYLOR BENDIG, EDMONTON JOURNAL
Kaila Hauck was never a fan of fungi. So when she and three other University of Alberta students chose mushrooms for a class assignment, it was more out of curiosity than affection.
“It was really just an interesting topic,” said Hauck, a fifth-year student in the school’s nutrition and food program. “I’d never personally heard of any health benefits about mushrooms.”
That would soon change. After reviewing about 60 scientific papers on the compounds found in edible fungi, her team found “so many health benefits, it was kind of astonishing.”
Hauck said researchers have found things in mushrooms that can prevent heart disease, reduce allergic reactions and fight viruses. For their research, her team focused on two kinds of compounds: antioxidants and cancer-fighting agents.
The potential for mushrooms to treat and prevent cancer is remarkable, Hauck said. Her research found numerous clinical trials aimed at fighting the disease using active fungi compounds, including selenium, which kills off tumour cells, and aromatase inhibitors, which stifle the excess estrogen production that can cause breast cancer.
To read the full story visit the Edmonton Journal website.
posted by Brittany
That’s right! Mushrooms Canada is in Calgary this weekend cooking up a storm at the Calgary Go Green Expo at the Roundup Centre at Stampede Park, March 27-28th.
I will be preparing two of my favourite recipes at the Go Green Kitchen; Sweet and Spicy Stir-Fried Mushrooms, and Grilled Mushroom, Tomato and Avocado Feta Salad.
Make sure you swing on by and sit in the audience, everyone who does will recieve a sample of the recipes, a brown paper bag, recipe booklet, and a ballot to enter to win a T-Fal Hot Spot Frying Pan.
You can find all the information on the Go Green Show on their website here.
See you at the show!
posted by Brittany