THE STUDY OF NUTRITIONAL PROPERTIES OF HIGHER FUNGI IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY Yestemirova G.A., Muratbekova N.Zh.
Kazakh-Russian Medical University
gulfira.yestemirova@mail.ru
The problem of high-grade and healthy food has always been one of the most important for human
society. Nowadays, a large positive experience has been accumulated in the use of biologically active
additives in the correction of nutrition, the prevention and treatment of many diseases. Biologically active
additives are increasingly in demand in the diet of various groups of the population. This is typical not only
for Kazakhstan, but also for other economically developed countries with a fairly high subsistence level and
economic level. The study of food properties of higher fungi and the creation of new bioactive additives on
their basis is one of the actively developing areas in the food industry, modern pharmacology and medicine.
Many fungi synthesize antibiotics, which gave a person a reliable weapon in the fight against pathogens.
Preparations from the higher fungi in the world pharmaceutical market. The medicinal properties of higher
fungi have been known for a long time, the tradition of their use for the treatment and prevention of various
diseases was formed even in ancient times. Absence in the diet of physiologically functional, irreplaceable
for human compounds leads to metabolic disorders and, as a result, to certain diseases.
Today it is already proved that many higher fungi have antitumor properties. Research in the field of
pharmaceutical mycology led to discoveries that gave hope to oncological patients and doctors working in
this field. Modern biotechnology based on fungi can become the basis of valuable drugs that have a wide
range of biological effects. The composition of biologically active additives is harmless to the body, there is
no threat of overdose if the rules of application are observed. Biotechnologists using fungi as producers of
biologically active substances have given new bioadditives, which find application in the treatment and
prevention of various human diseases.