Scientists pour scorn on mushroom coffee, the latest ‘healthy’ food trend

UK demand growing for beverages made from fungi, but experts dismiss innovations as ‘health products you don’t need’Sipping mushroom coffee sounds like a weird camping trip anecdote but more Britons are embracing this alternative morning pick-me-up as “mushroom mania” sweeps the high street.With the food industry eager to cash in on demand for “functional foods” that promise extra health benefits, medicinal mushrooms – not the button kind you put i