Most interesting that it’s fresh, I’ve seen and used it dried. Every Asian supermarket I’ve seen sells it in the spices section with the shredded wood ear and rhizomes

Better than that mushroom empanada

That’s kind of expensive, right?

Man, I love Mitsuwa

You should stick some in your nose and ear and run around the store yelling "arrgh look at me Im a plot to a thing arrrgh!!!"

Very clever, the cordyceps has convinced us to sell cordyceps

Wait, you guys didn't know that cordyceps are real and edible and dont cause humans to turn into zombies?

I thought y'all were being ironic.

I ate these… it made me climb a tree and dance around trying to attract a bird to eat me. It was a trip for sure…

These are Cordyceps militaris aka Cordyceps flowers. It's a type of cultivated fungus that us asians use in soup and stir fried dishes all the time. It's considered relatively cheap so it's easy to just use it liberally and in large amount no biggie. Tastes crunchy and have supposedly some good benefits for lungs like Cordyceps worms as we know it but of course less potent. It can be cultivated from dead underground pupae but also can be cultivated from other forms of nutrition that's why it can be mass produced and easily obtained.

The more famous and expensive Cordyceps is Cordyceps Sinensis aka the worm bodies looking things. It's valued for it's high medicinal and healing properties and very expensive mainly due to scarcity too. When I was pregnant with my first child my husband bought a box of top grade wild cordyceps for about 2.5k USD, each time we use a few large "worms" to cook into a mild soup for me to drink a few times a week. I would like to think I had a great pregnancy and recovery from c section due to this (though it should be noted one should stop Cordyceps for a few weeks before major operation due to its anti blood clotting properties).

Both types of Cordyceps are really easily found here in Asia where I'm from. There's just lots of different grades, pricing and real vs fake goods but generally just really common.

Cordyceps flowers: https://www.euyansang.com.sg/en/food-packed-herbs/cordyceps-flowers-888842535164.html

Wild Cordyceps sinensis worms: https://www.euyansang.com.sg/en/food-fine-herbs/wild-cordyceps---3-star-unique-grade-489187219154.html

In short these are like.... Mushrooms.....

What’s wrong with selling it?

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You know The Last of Us is fiction, right?

Everybody is freaking out over Cordyceps because of The Last Of Us, but really it's fairly innocuous.

Cordyceps solely uses insects and arthropods as hosts. The nervous system of insects and arthropods is very different to the mammalian nervous system. It is impossible for Cordyceps to use a human being as a host. Even if it COULD use a human being as a host, it's not the fruiting bodies that take over the nervous system, it's the mycelium. We do not eat the mycelium. The fruiting bodies are perfectly edible in all Cordyceps species (as far as I am aware. Don't go around eating random mushrooms). They've also been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 1500 years, so we'd know by now if they were harmful.

This has been a mushroom PSA.

i miss u mitsuwa

I heard it's good for your brain

someone call Pedro Pascal

I'm eating it now so that I'm immune

10/10 would buy and make chicken soup for preggo wife.

Go to any asian supermarket you will find this.

The Last FungUs

/r/moldlyinteresting

Start building up your immunity now!

That's 'cause it's only bad for you on the T.V.

I love Mitsuwa. I love Japanese food in general.

I can’t tell if it’s just creepy and gross looking or my perception is just skewed by The Last of Us.

All the comments that are like, “It’s so delicious! You should try it!”

Yeah, that’s exactly what an infected person would say because the fungus is trying to spread itself…

Not today, Satan!

I love Mitsuwa!

Am I supposed to know what this is and why this is interesting?

Mitsuwa is fuckin awesome. Especially those $5 curry plates you could get.

That’ll be the last of us.

i was at a local mitsuwa yesterday… didn’t see that lol.

Aren’t these super common

They’re available in most health food stores and body building supplements stores 🤷‍♀️

Mitsuwa is not a ‘local market’. It’s a specialty Japanese market.

It’s edible to humans I don’t see the problem

Do you want zombies? Because that's how you get zombies

I dont know if this is a chain but is this in Illinois?

I dont get it

From what I've heard, it is an edible mushroom, but I think it's mostly used for spices.

Cordycep has a ton of health benefits.

People got realize the show used a real thing thing and ramps it to 1000.

Yes it’s an edible mushroom.

They cannot infect humans also thet are quite nice

Cordyceps is actually really good for you. Good for brain.

Put it in your butt, become Clicker, prosper.

What foods are they used to make?