I love mushrooms, especially as a sauce with my steak.
Me too, I study them for a living in fact, My job Identifying mushrooms requires a only a basic understanding of their macroscopic structure, Its a fascinating field of study. 
I had no idea there was even a science dedicated to mushrooms! Do you know why mushrooms taste so good?
Well Edible mushrooms are usually cooked and consumed for their nutritional value, Most people dont like the taste, It just depends on how you cook them. 
I see, I usually boil them and cook them with Wasabi sauce. I guess most people dont like it raw.
are sources of umami flavor from guanylate.
Mushrooms consumed by those practicing folk medicine are known as medicinal mushrooms. While psychedelic mushrooms are occasionally consumed for recreational or entheogenic purposes, they can produce psychological effects, and are therefore not commonly used as food.
There is no evidence from high-quality clinical research that 'medicinal' mushrooms have any effect on human diseases.
Edible mushrooms include many fungal species that are either harvested wild or cultivated. Easily cultivated and common wild mushrooms are often available in markets, and
"Agaricus" or their order Agaricales. By extension, the term "mushroom" can also refer to either the entire fungus when in culture, the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms, or the species itself.
Identification.
Identifying mushrooms requires a basic understanding of their macroscopic structure. Most are Basidiomycetes and gilled. Their spores, called basidiospores, are produced on the gills and fall in a fine rain of powder from under the caps as a result. At the microscopic