Button mushrooms are the small, white, round mushrooms that you see at the grocery store all the time. They look like tiny white umbrellas with thick stems, and they are the most popular mushroom in the whole world! People have been growing button mushrooms for over 300 years.
- Button mushrooms, cremini mushrooms, and big portobello mushrooms are actually all the same mushroom, just picked at different ages!
- A baby one is a white button, a teenager is a brown cremini, and a fully grown-up one becomes a big portobello.
- You can eat them raw in salads, cooked on pizza, or mixed into pasta and soups, and they are packed with good vitamins!
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