Easy Trivia Quiz Questions About Mushrooms
What are mushrooms?
A: Mushrooms are the fleshy, spore-bearing
fruiting body of a fungus.
Mushrooms are used extensively in what?
A: Cooking.
Mushrooms are not meat and they are not
vegetable, but they are known as the “what” of
the vegetable world?
A: Meat.
How have most mushrooms sold in supermarkets
been grown?/
A: Commercially on mushroom farms.
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quiz questions?
A: Trivia Country!
A number of species of mushrooms are what?
A: Poisonous.
Eating mushrooms gathered in the wild is risky
and should only be undertaken by whom?
A: Individuals knowledgeable in mushroom
identification.
Wild mushroom pickers should focus on collecting
a small number of what?
A: Visually distinctive, edible mushroom species
that cannot be easily confused with poisonous
varieties.
People who collect mushrooms for consumption are
known as what?
A: Mycophagists.
China produces about how much of all cultivated
mushrooms?
A: Half.
In 2014, what country was the world's largest
mushroom exporter?
A: Poland.
What does Mycophagy mean?
A: It’s the act of consuming mushrooms.
Edible mushroom species have been found in
association with 13,000-year-old archaeological
sites in what country?
A: Chile.
The first reliable evidence of mushroom
consumption dates to when?
A: Several hundred years BC in China.
Besides food, the Chinese value mushrooms for
what other purpose?
A: Their medicinal properties.
Ancient Romans and Greeks, particularly the
upper classes, used mushrooms for what?
A: Culinary purposes.
Why were food tasters employed by Roman
emperors?
A: To ensure that mushrooms were safe to eat.
Mushrooms are also easily what?
A: Preserved.
How many species of mushrooms are commercially
cultivated?
A: Over twenty.
In how many countries are mushrooms cultivated?
A: In at least 60 countries.
A fraction of the many fungi consumed by humans
are currently what?
A: Cultivated and sold commercially.
How many calories are in 100 grams of raw white
mushrooms?
A: 5 calories.
The content of vitamin D is absent or low unless
mushrooms are exposed to what?
A: Sunlight or purposely treated with artificial
ultraviolet light.
Mushrooms exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light
produce what?
A: Vitamin D2.