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A cruel blow for mycophobics everywhere… BBC reports that scientists are developing ways of replacing all the good stuff in our food (fat) with mushroom extract.

“One particularly promising avenue is the mushroom. It produces hydrophobins, air cells which protect the fungus from water, but which appear to have the same material properties as oil. And yet they have no calories.

Because there are no legal constraints around using mushroom extract in food - it is already widely available - this is an ingredient which could be “applied across the whole board very soon”, said Professor Ian Norton.”

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