Current research shows that mushrooms produce at least 100 different natural antibiotics, and that many edible mushrooms have the effect of lowering blood pressure, contain special bioactive polysaccharides that can improve the human immune response and inhibit tumor growth, thus helping to prevent and combat cancer, or have constituents that can reduce blood cholesterol levels.
根據研究，目前所知菇蕈類所產生的天然抗生素就超過一百種，許多食用菇具有降血壓的功效，並含有特殊生理活性的多醣類物質，可增強人體的免疫力，抑制腫瘤成長，兼具抗癌、防癌功效，也含有使血液中膽固醇下降的成分。