Mushrooms

Special benefits

As the natural environment in Finland is clean and almost free of pollutants, Finnish mushroom species are safe to eat and enjoy. Mushroom can be used in many food items because of its neutral flavour enhancing the taste of other ingredients.  Finnish mushrooms are naturally health enhancing. Read more >

Production

A total of 200 species of wild and edible mushroom species is found in the nature of Finland. The most commonly cultivated mushroom species in Finland are champignon, shiitake and oyster mushroom.

Finnish mushroom production has several benefits resulting from a pure and abundant raw material for growing substrate. Ecological impact of production is very low and in many cases environmental issues are routinely taken into account in production. All employees handling mushrooms for wider distribution have a special hygiene training to ensure cleanness of food items.

Typically, most of the Finnish produces farm mushrooms organically, hence ensuring pure products.

Export

Finnish mushroom products are marketed to central Europe, particularly to Germany, but also to Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and Belgium.