Mushroom cell walls contain both chitin and beta-glucans, but these polymers are built from different sugar units. Chitin is a straight-chain polymer of N-acetylglucosamine linked mainly...

Beta-1,3 and beta-1,6 are not two different sugars. They describe the positions used to connect glucose units inside a beta-glucan chain. Many mushroom beta-glucans use a...

Ergothioneine and beta-glucans can occur in mushrooms, but they occupy opposite ends of the molecular-size spectrum. Ergothioneine is a small sulfur-containing histidine derivative obtained through the...

Reishi is often summarized with the single phrase mushroom polysaccharides, but its chemistry is broader. Beta-glucans are large glucose polymers with species- and extraction-dependent branching patterns....

Maitake and reishi are two different mushroom species with overlapping but non-identical polysaccharide profiles. Maitake is Grifola frondosa, often called hen of the woods. Reishi commonly...

Mushroom beta-glucans and glucomannan are both large carbohydrate polymers, but their sugar linkages, sources and formula roles differ. Maitake and reishi in Luvixy Saw Palmetto Complex...

The largest botanical layer in Luvixy Saw Palmetto is not the saw-palmetto blend. It is a 900 mg mushroom complex containing maitake and reishi extracts. That...