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Porcini mushrooms are well valued for their meaty texture, interesting flavour and distinguishing shape. These mushrooms vary in size and are imported from Europe. Porcini mushrooms are concidered one of the finest-tasting mushrooms available in the market today.

Porcini mushrooms are prized by cooks around the world, but they may provide much more than good flavour. For centuries the healing properties of porcini mushrooms have been recognized by practitioners of traditional medicine in China, Japan and Europe. In Europe, porcini mushrooms have been used as a cancer treatment since the middle ages, and they have been used in Chinese medicine for much longer than that. Today scientists are studying these mushrooms in great detail, in the hope of one day finding a cure to one of the worlds biggest killers 'cancer'.