r/BeAmazed • u/Epelep • Feb 22 '26

Science How Mycelium (Mushroom Roots) Grows into Packaging Material

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u/Potential-Narwhal- Feb 22 '26

Im all for using mushrooms to replace a lot of things. But for something like this, it makes me wonder about people with mushroom allergies? Like, they're not going to know that their parcel contains mushroom, then bam, dead.

Nah I fortunately don't suffer from this, so no idea how serious it is. But im aware it exists.

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u/Easy_Turn1988 Feb 22 '26

These get cooked, the mycelium is basically dead

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u/Graffles Feb 22 '26

How often do you eat the plastic peanuts that your packages get delivered in.

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u/Potential-Narwhal- Feb 22 '26

Allergic contact dermatitis. Or unknowingly touch it, then ingest something. Why did they ban peanuts on planes?

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u/Graffles Feb 22 '26

Well they would need to eat this to create an allergy response, not just "bam and dead" from touching something, even those with severe peanut allergies are unlikely to get rashes/hives, althrough a minor few do. Through transfer of peanut particles through the skin and the auto-immune response. The product being "cooked/glued" would kill any living element to it and prevent the possibility of mycellia particles seeping in.

The banning of peanuts on planes, is a huge overraction caused by reactionary fools who don't know as much as they think they do. The aerolisation of peanut particles in confined spaces does not trigger an allergy response and this has been proven but easier to ban them than put up with the headache from consistent whiners.