Button Mushrooms
Selection Information
Usage: Eating fresh, cooking, in salads and stir-frys.
Selection: Good-quality button mushrooms are dry, have smooth, firm caps and are completely closed at the gills (the area where the stem joins the mushroom). While bright white mushrooms may look better in your recipe, they do not mean the mushrooms taste better than those that are darker-colored.
To store mushrooms, keep them unwashed, dry, cool and dark. Store them in a brown paper bag, or in a Tupperware type container in the refrigerator.
Avoid: Avoid button mushrooms that are wet, brown (other varieties should be brown), bruised, or open at the gills.
Seasonal Information
Available year-round.
Button Mushroom Nutritional Information
Serving size 5 medium (84g)
Calories 20
Total Fat 0g
Sodium 0mg
Total Carbohydrate 3g
Dietary Fiber 0g
Protein 2g
% of U.S. RDA
Vitamin A 0%
Calcium 0%
Vitamin C 2%
Iron 2%
Mushroom Tips & Trivia
- To store mushrooms, keep them unwashed, dry, cool and dark. Store them in a brown paper bag, or in a Tupperware type container in the refrigerator.
- Three thousand years ago, mushrooms were a delicacy of the Pharaohs in Egypt, who considered them too delicate for common people to eat. They were favored in ancient Rome as a "food of the gods."
- Cultivated in France around 1700, mushrooms were first introduced into this country as a cultivated plant about 1890.