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Mushrooms

button · oyster · shiitake
+8 min per daily serving, over a lifetime
measured · low evidence

What it does

Fungal beta-glucans prime immune cells; sun-exposed mushrooms also make vitamin D.

Where the number comes from

Mushrooms sits in the veg group of the Fadnes model, the only peer-reviewed model that converts eating into years of life. The lifetime gain for that group is spread across the days you actually eat it — a daily serving from age 20 to 80 — which gives +8 min per serving. The authors rate the evidence behind this group as low.

What it is made of

How to eat it

Always cooked, never raw.

Minutes derived from Fadnes LT, Økland J-M, Haaland ØA, Johansson KA. Estimating impact of food choices on life expectancy: A modeling study. PLOS Medicine 19(2):e1003889, 2022. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003889

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মাশরুম

ছত্রাকের বিটা-গ্লুকান রোগ-প্রতিরোধী কোষকে প্রস্তুত রাখে; রোদে রাখা মাশরুম ভিটামিন D-ও বানায়।

সবসময় রেঁধে — কাঁচা নয়।

প্রতিদিন এক সার্ভিং = +8 মিনিট।

120 is the biological ceiling, not a promise. These are population estimates from a peer-reviewed model, not a personal forecast. Educational information, not medical advice.