3 Development of Functional Materials for Food and Cosmetics through Cultivation Separation and Purification of Three Kinds Mushroom Complexes

摘要

Mushrooms consist of fruiting bodies (fruits) and mycelium (roots). (Refer to Figure 1. Structure of mushroom and name of each part) Mycelium contains about 4 times more physiologically active substances than fruiting bodies. Among a number of mushrooms, the mycelium of chaga, prickly pear, and shiitake mushrooms, which contain large amounts of 1 and 3 D beta-glucan, are inoculated into barley and cultured in a medium to isolate and purify only the indicator components. After culturing three types of mushroom complex mycelium, the functional substances of beta-glucan, which are separated and purified, are materialized.