[Product Name](Shitake Mushroom Extract) [Latin Name] Lentinus edodes [Common Name] (Flower Mushroom) [Family] Tricholomataceae [Genus] Lentinus [Use Part] Entire part of shitake mushroom The Shitake Mushroom Extract is rich in lentinan which is a β-(1→3) glucan with β-(1→3) and (1→6) branched-chains, and also contains lentinacin and eritadenine. Shitake mushroom contains more than 10 kinds of amino acids, including 7 amino acids essential to human body such as isoleucine, lysine, phenylalanine, methionine, threonine and valine, and vitamins B1, B2, PP and mineral salts and crude fiber, etc.