mycelial products and methods for producing mycelial products from cocoa and other agricultural substrates

摘要

Patent specification: "Mycelial products and methods for producing mycelial products from cocoa and other agricultural substrates". The present invention relates to a method for preparing a mycelial cocoa bean or other agricultural product. This method provides cocoa beans or other agricultural substrate and sterilizes cocoa beans or other agricultural substrate to provide prepared cocoa beans or other agricultural substrate, and a step of inoculating prepared cocoa beans or other agricultural substrate with a prepared fungal component. and cultivate the inoculum to prepare the mycelial product. the methods of the present invention result in prepared cocoa beans or other agricultural substrate having reduced levels of undesirable taste components such as theobromine or 2-methoxy-3-isopropylpyrazine, and increased levels of mycelial products such as beta glucans, pyrazines and polysaccharides in relation to cocoa beans or other initial agricultural substrate.