Turkey Tail Mushroom

🌱 What it is

Turkey tail is a common, thin, multicolored bracket fungus that grows in overlapping fan shapes on dead wood, too tough to eat as food and instead simmered into tea or taken as a standardized extract.

✨ Why it's good for you

• Studied as a supportive aid to immune function, including alongside conventional cancer treatment in some countries
• May help support healthy gut bacteria with its polysaccharides
• Traditionally used as a general immune tonic

🥗 Nutrition

Per 1 tsp dried powder (2g) · about 5 calories

• Beta-glucans (mushroom fiber)
• Trace minerals
• Typically taken as tea or capsule, not eaten as a portion

Source: General estimate — usually taken as tea/extract, not a food serving

🥄 How to use it

Simmer dried slices for teaA warm drink made by steeping herbs in hot water. How to make a tea →, or take a standardized extract per the product label -- always alongside, and only with the knowledge of, your treating physician if you are managing a serious illness.

📚 Why we trust it

• PSK/PSP compounds studied and used clinically in Japan alongside cancer treatment
• One of the most researched medicinal mushrooms

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📚 Resource confidence

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