Maitake Mushroom Extract Polysaccharides Grifola frondosa 


Maitake Mushroom Extract 

Product Name: Maitake Mushroom Extract 

Latin Name: Grifola frondosa 

Part Used: fungus 

Active Ingredient: Polysaccharide 

Description: 

Maitake is a precious fungus as food and medicine. Recently 
it is popular in American and Japanese market as a kind of 
excellent health caring food, and its unique nutrition and 
medical value attracts ever wider attention. Maitake 
polysaccharide has anticancer and anti-HIV function and can 
adjust immune and incretion and nutrition metabolizing. It 
is also good in curing hepatitis. Introduction
Mushrooms are a flavorful and nutritious food group. Good 
sources of B-Vitamins: Thiamine, Riboflavin and Niacin. 
They contain all the essential amino acids. Mushrooms have 
also been used for thousands of years as some of the most 
effective, yet benign, of many plants that formed the 
oriental herbal tradition. Garuda International offers more 
than ten species of the highest quality mushroom extract 
powders available in the world today. Some are certified 
organically grown and some have standardized levels of 
active compounds. These are perfect powdered materials for 
formulating immune system boosting dietary supplements and 
natural cosmetics. Maitake mushroom (Grifola frondosa) 
grows wild in the northeastern part of Japan. For hundreds 
of years, this rare and exquisite tasting mushroom has been 
prized in traditional Japanese herbology. Historically, 
herbalists exchanged maitake for the same weight of silver. 
Renowned for its many health benefits and delicious taste, 
maitake is referred to as the Dancing Mushroom. People who 
found it in the mountains knew of its health benefits and 
began dancing with joy. Maitake is now being cultivated 
thereby insuring a steady supply for the first time ever.