From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.
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There are plenty of forageable mushrooms with no look-alikes. If you’re cautious and thorough, it’s not particularly risky.
And by thorough, I mean:
- actually learning to properly identity mushrooms before you ever consider eating them
- learning from someone else with experience
- verifying that what you’re learning is correct in a book (for your specific region) and on the internet
And these days, that means making sure it’s a book written by someone who knows what they are doing, rather than AI auto-generated bullshit.