Innovative Swedish dairy company Skanemejerier has signed an agreement to develop immune-boosting products based on an extract from the shiitake mushroom…[A] Danish start-up called MediMush is using proprietary technology to produce extracts of the active components of the mushroom for use as a functional food ingredient or supplement. At the end of May, it announced that Skane had agreed to develop new products containing its lentinan extract, the polysaccharide believed to boost the immune system.

—Foodnavigator.com, 7/13/05