These Mushrooms Can Turn Plastic Waste into Food

5.7.17, 7:11 PM EDT by Aryan Mahyar

Fungi Mutarium is a prototype that grows edible fungal biomass as a novel food product. Fungi is cultivated on specifically designed agar shapes that the designers called "FU". Agar is a seaweed based gelatin substitute and acts, mixed with starch and sugar, as a nutrient base for the fungi.

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