New opportunities for medicinal mushrooms
01 Oct 2018 | Mycotrition
Mycotrition (Germany) is one of the biggest suppliers of medicinal mushrooms and is addressing Asian markets with a focus on quality. “In Europe, people love traditional medicine and to work with traditional mushrooms is a real possibility to get fast results. For example, reishi is good with allergies or if you have heart issues. Cordyceps increases your fitness and gives you more energy. What really helps is that the mushrooms can really help them feel better in just a few days,” says Alexander Schall at the company.
From wires at Vita Foods Asia in Singapore and I'm here with Alexander Shell from Micro Microtrition and the company is one of the biggest suppliers of, medicinal mushrooms.
Alexandra, can you give a little bit of background to the company and where you see some of the trends happening when it comes to the adoption of medicinal mushrooms within nutraceuticals?
So in Europe, it's the traditional medicine is really people love traditional medicine and to work with medicinal mushrooms, it's really a possibility to get fast results.
So for example, if you have the reshi, it's one of the mushrooms you see in the back of me, it's A mushroom that helps for allergies and also if you have some problems with the heart.
The other mushroom is the corps, and it looks like a caterpillar, like you see, and this is a mushroom that increases your fitness and makes you fit in the brain and gives you more energy.
And so what really helps is that the mushrooms help.
Within a few days and people come to the practice and say, oh, come on, I really feel better, and that's really impressive.
What I think is quite interesting is that mushrooms have a very kind of role in traditional Chinese medicine, and here you are.
To promote yourselves towards Asian markets, do you see room for growth in these types of markets, or is it mainly European focus?
That's what we checked out last year.
So we've been here last year for the first time and thought, OK, we'll try, but never see us or anything, and we have more than 150 contacts, so a lot of the Asian people, they realized they are from Germany.
Asian mushrooms from Germany, they must have a reliable quality, and that's what we really have.
So the first thing is that we developed, we want to assure that you really can get the mushroom you ordered because if you order mushrooms from Asia, you get a brown powder and nobody knows is it really the quality I want to have, so we developed the SEC size exclusion chromatography to have a fingerprint.
Really the mushroom you want to have.
And besides that, we do analysis on 400 different parameters on heavy metals, pesticides, microbiology, radioactivity, and so that's what a lot of the people over here really want.
You mentioned a couple of varieties of mushroom, rashi and corps.
Are there other ones that we should be looking out for?
What else, what else is trending when it comes to mushrooms and nutraceuticals?
So trendy also is the hereitium or the Asian people say pom pom or the Thai people say pom pom or the lion's mane.
And this is a mushroom that helps very, very for problems with the stomach.
If you have a stomach ache or too much acid, you can take this mushroom and it helps within a few hours.
Besides that, you can.
Take the shiitake.
It's also a mushroom people like to eat, but it's very good and complementary medicine for problems with the digestive system.
Alexander, thank you very much.
It was a pleasure.
