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Morel mushrooms linked to fatal food poisoning outbreak; FDA releases first-ever prep guidelines
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even completely nontoxic mushrooms can upset your stomach if you eat a bunch of them, and especially if you're not used to doing so.
they're not trivial to digest
Mushroom cells contain a ton of chitin, which is what crustacean shells are mostly made of. I happen to have a stomach of steel, so it doesn't bother me that much. Or maybe, I am just really used to it.
If you have a sensitive stomach, it's much easier to take shrooms as a tea or steeped in some lemon juice for an hour. The heat or the acid works wonders on chitin... (It's also rumored that citric acid will work wonders on psilocybin and convert some of it to back to psilocin as well. That isn't for a beginner, btw.)
Yep. And there are some people who can't even tolerate your basic white mushroom even in pretty small amounts. Mushrooms aren't that easy on the stomach.