Gucchi (Morchella esculenta)
- Title
- Gucchi (Morchella esculenta)
- Creator
- Pandita A.; Pandita D.; Pagadala J.C.; Vallinayagam S.; Inamdar B.; Manohar M.V.; Paladhi A.G.; Jacob S.; Devegowda D.
- Description
- This chapter focuses on Morchella esculenta as a nutraceutical and functional food, its habit, habitat, general characteristics, availability, biologically active compounds present and pharmacological and medicinal value. Mushrooms are spore-bearing fleshy fruiting bodies of fungus often present above the ground. Greeks and Romans included mushrooms in their diet. Romans considered mushrooms as the food of supernatural beings, despite the Chinese contemplating them as the elixir of the human being. Functional foods that are prepared from morel mushrooms are of high medicinal properties. The production of M. esculenta worldwide is 1.5 million tonnes of fresh weight and 150 tonnes of dry weight. India and Pakistan are the major morel-producing countries and each country has about 50 tonnes of dry morels. The pharmacological properties of Morchella species show its use in Chinese traditional medicine since 2, 000 years and in Malaysia and Japan to cure several diseases. 2023 Deepu Pandita and Anu Pandita.
- Source
- Mushrooms: Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, pp. 254-273.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Coverage
- Pandita A., Vatsalya Clinic, Krishna Nagar, New Delhi, 110051, India; Pandita D., Government Department of School Education, Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu, 180001, India; Pagadala J.C., Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad Gachibowli, Telangana, Hyderabad, 500046, India; Vallinayagam S., Department of Biotechnology, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala RandD Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India; Inamdar B., JSS Medical College (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Mysuru, India; Manohar M.V., JSS Medical College (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Mysuru, India; Paladhi A.G., CHIRST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Jacob S., CHIRST (Deemed to be University), Karnataka, Bengaluru, India; Devegowda D., Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Department of Biochemistry, JSS Medical College, JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research, Mysuru, 15, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISBN: 978-100088432-6; 978-103234453-9
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Book chapter
Collection
Citation
Pandita A.; Pandita D.; Pagadala J.C.; Vallinayagam S.; Inamdar B.; Manohar M.V.; Paladhi A.G.; Jacob S.; Devegowda D., “Gucchi (Morchella esculenta),” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 23, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/18494.