While white button mushrooms are the most common variety of mushroom, their quintessential mushroom flavor and culinary versatility make them anything but. A fascinating fact about the white button mushroom is that it’s the same mushroom as the crimini, or brown mushroom, as well as the portabella. The difference is simply their age. The brown crimini and the large, brown portabella are more mature versions of the very same mushroom.

Due to their exposure to UV rays or sunlight, mushrooms are a natural, non-animal source of vitamin D2 that’s capable of increasing blood levels of this vitamin as effectively as a supplement.