Mary Wanjiku Gateri is proud to work with one of the world’s most nutritious and versatile crops— mushrooms. “Mushrooms are a perfect antioxidant in the body, and contain both non-essential and essential amino acids, including 78 percent linoleic acid. They are very high in protein—they have as much protein as an egg, at 25 to 45 percent,” she explains enthusiastically. “They are also very low in sugar and starch, and have virtually no cholesterol,” she reports.