Akomz Farms & Foods

The Company

Akomz Foods is pioneering the cultivation of White Button Mushrooms also called Agaricus Bisporus. The company seeks to contribute to the total wellness of the people by providing farm fresh mushrooms to add to the nutritious and healthy menu options open to everyone.

Vision: To make Mushrooms a necessity in the choice of foods, fruits and vegetable basket of every house hold in the Nigeria.

White Button Mushrooms

White Button mushrooms are tiny thumbnail sized mushrooms with smooth rounded caps and short truncated stems. Their flavor is mild when raw and more fragrant and meaty when cooked.

A mushroom is a type of fruiting body of a fungus. White Button Mushrooms is one of the varieties of Mushrooms available for consumption. Mushrooms are considered as the fifth largest vegetable and they are organisms that are free of chlorophyll and therefore cannot do process of Photosynthesis.

Mushrooms are in different colors, sizes and shapes and the most common mushrooms have short, thick stems and umbrella like fleshy caps.

Mushrooms are cultivated as it is used by humans mainly as a source of food, but they also have medicinal properties, because they contain lovastatin (which lowers the cholesterol in the blood) which is a substance used in medicines for heart patients.

It also contains minerals like iron, phosphorus, potassium, and calcium and is rich with vitamins. It is also filled with fibres that help in digestion in humans. Thus, mushrooms are considered as perfect food, and are also very popular around the world.

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