Production and Nutritional Composition of King Oyster Culinary-Medicinal Mushroom Pleurotus eryngii (Agaricomycetes) Biomass from Brazil.

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The present study aimed to evaluate the nutritional composition and production of mycelial biomass of Pleurotus eryngii in different culture media, formulated with infusion of purple-skinned sweet potato, glucose concentrations, and the presence or absence of yeast extract. The mushroom was grown for 15 days at 25°C and 150 rpm. The best production of mycelial biomass occurred in the culture medium with 40 g/L of glucose plus yeast extract. At the second cultivation, the fungus entered the exponential growth phase from days 6 until 14. These results indicate that the insertion of nutritional sources in purple-skinned sweet potato media positively influences mycelial biomass production and its nutritional characteristics make it useful for food industry applications.