Nutritional Value of Mushrooms

Eating vegetables and fruits is a good way to meet your vitamins and minerals need. It is a common knowledge. But, what about mushrooms? Technically, mushrooms are not vegetables, they are not plants and they belong to fungi kingdom. Yet, mushrooms contain a lot of important nutrition and bring many health benefits such as preventing cancer, control your blood sugar level, reducing the risk of heart diseases and so on. You might want to consider adding it to your diet. Below, we have nutritional value of mushrooms in 3 different sizes, large, medium and small.

Nutritional value of mushrooms: white raw large mushrooms

White raw large mushrooms with weight about 23 grams contains:

Calories: 5.1 (from carbohydrate: 2.5, from fat: 0.7 and from protein: 1.9), carbohydrates: 0.8 gram, dietary fiber: 0.2 gram, sugars: 0.4 gram. Protein: 0.7 gram (tryoptophan 8.1 mg, threonine 24.6 mg, isoleucine 17.5 mg, leucine 27.6 mg, lysine 24.6 mg, methionine 7.1 mg, cystine 2.8 mg, phenylalanine 19.6 mg, tyrosine 10.1 mg, valine 53.4 mg, arginine 17.9 mg, histidine 13.1 mg, alanine 45.8 mg, aspartic acid 44.9 mg, glutamic acid 78.9 mg, glycine 21.2 mg, proline 17.5 mg and serine 21.6 mg).

Vitamins: vitamin C 0.5 mcg, vitamin D 4.1 IU, riboflavin 0.1 mg, niacin 0.8 mg, folate 3.7 mcg, pantothenic acid 0.3 mg, choline 4 mg and betaine 2.2 mg. Minerals: calcium 0.7 mg, iron 0.1 mg, magnesium 2.1 mg, phosphorus 19.8 mg, potassium 73.1 mg, sodium 1.2 mg, zinc 0.1 mg, copper 0.1 mg and selenium 2.1 mcg. Total fat: 0.1 gram, water: 21.3 gram, ash: 0.2 gram.

Nutritional value of mushrooms: white raw medium mushrooms

White raw large mushrooms with weight about 18 grams contains:

Calories: 4 (from carbohydrate: 2, from fat: 0.5 and from protein: 1.5), carbohydrates: 0.6 gram, dietary fiber: 0.2 gram, sugars: 0.3 gram. Protein: 0.6 gram (tryoptophan 6.3 mg, threonine 19.3 mg, isoleucine 13.7 mg, leucine 21.6 mg, lysine 19.3 mg, methionine 5.6 mg, cystine 2.2 mg, phenylalanine 15.3 mg, tyrosine 7.9 mg, valine 41.8 mg, arginine 14 mg, histidine 10.3 mg, alanine 35.8 mg, aspartic acid 35.1 mg, glutamic acid 61.7 mg, glycine 16.6 mg, proline 13.7 mg and serine 16.9 mg).

Vitamins: vitamin C 0.4 mcg, vitamin D 3.2 IU, riboflavin 0.1 mg, niacin 0.6 mg, folate 2.9 mcg, pantothenic acid 0.3 mg, choline 3.1 mg and betaine 1.7 mg. Minerals: calcium 0.5 mg, iron 0.1 mg, magnesium 1.6 mg, phosphorus 15.5 mg, potassium 57.2 mg, sodium 0.9 mg, zinc 0.1 mg, copper 0.1 mg and selenium 1.7 mcg. Total fat: 0.1 gram, water: 16.6 gram, ash: 0.2 gram.

Nutritional value of mushrooms: white raw small mushrooms

White small mushrooms with weight about 10 grams contains:

Calories: 2.2 (from carbohydrate: 1.1, from fat: 0.3 and from protein: 0.8), carbohydrates: 0.3 gram, dietary fiber: 0.1 gram, sugars: 0.2 gram. Protein: 0.3 gram (tryoptophan 3.5 mg, threonine 10.7 mg, isoleucine 7.6 mg, leucine 12 mg, lysine 10.7 mg, methionine 3.1 mg, cystine 1.2 mg, phenylalanine 8.5 mg, tyrosine 4.4 mg, valine 23.2 mg, arginine 7.8 mg, histidine 5.7 mg, alanine 19.9 mg, aspartic acid 19.5 mg, glutamic acid 34.3 mg, glycine 9.2 mg, proline 7.6 mg and serine 9.4 mg).

Vitamins: vitamin C 0.2 mcg, vitamin D 1.8 IU, niacin 0.4 mg, folate 1.6 mcg, pantothenic acid 0.1 mg, choline 1.7 mg and betaine 0.9 mg. Minerals: calcium 0.3 mg, magnesium 0.9 mg, phosphorus 8.6 mg, potassium 31.8 mg, sodium 0.5 mg, zinc 0.1 mg and selenium 0.9 mcg. Total fat: 0, water: 9.2 gram, ash: 0.1 gram.