There’s Something About Mushrooms: Sales Soar As The On-Trend Veg Hits Dinner Tables Nationwide

Eating healthy and keeping your body in check should be a way of life.

And it is fast becoming this with one of our favourite nutrition-packed, low-calorie vegetables topping people’s supermarket lists nationwide.

Mushrooms are the new ‘cool’ food, you’re nothing in the foodie world unless you’re partial to a few portobellos!

And they even have a wide celebrity following too…

Katy Perry has confessed her love for the vegetable, while Kelly Osbourne is keeping the pounds off following her public battle with her weight by eating mushrooms for breakfast. 

Emmerdale and Waterloo Road star Roxanne Pallet dropped two dress sizes revealing that mushrooms are the secret to keeping her figure in ‘ship-shape’.

Even Corrie’s Catherine Tyldesley said that the vegetable was a staple of her diet which helped her drop several pounds on the scales and renew her body confidence.

Katy loves Obama.... and mushrooms!

According to reports, our confidence in eating the vegetable has increased dramatically as household name celebrity chefs speak highly of the nutritional benefits of mushrooms.

Mushrooms are versatile and tasty and can add depth and flavour to any meal, even in a time when some are living on a shoe-string budget.

Quickly climbing the UK’s list of 10 best-selling vegetables, mushrooms now rank third after potatoes (No.1) and tomatoes (No.2) with roughly 118,000 tonnes of mushrooms having been sold in the last year.

We can’t wait to see how the Irish rank the little guys…

Mushrooms are the perfect low calorie option and even featured on our top tips for low-calorie snacks and sides today…