Identification and Determination of Compounds Unique to Hericium in an Edible New Zealand Mushroom Hericium novae-zealandiae

Hericium novae-zealandiae is a native mushroom traditionally consumed by the indigenous Māori of New Zealand. To study erinacines and hericenones, compounds reported to be unique to the genus Hericium, the small molecular lipophilic constituents of H. novae-zealandiae were evaluated by chromatography coupled with diode array detection. Ethanol was used as an extraction solvent for the detection and quantification of these lipophilic targets....