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A 12-species compositional survey put peak fruiting-body lovastatin at about 14 microg/g, and the leaders were lion's mane and reishi rather than Pleurotus.
What the researchers found
Across 15 strains from 12 species, the highest lovastatin content in fruiting bodies was found in Hericium erinaceus (14.38 microg/g) and Ganoderma lucidum (11.54 microg/g) - neither an oyster mushroom.
How the study worked
Comparative compositional survey of fruit bodies and submerged-cultured mycelia of 15 higher Basidiomycetes strains across 12 species, covering proximate analysis, fatty acids, amino acids, macro/microelements, and the bioactives GABA, ergothioneine, lovastatin and cordycepin.
What this study cannot tell us
Species-level snapshot with limited strain replication; the abstract reports only the highest lovastatin values rather than a full per-species table, and analytical conditions differ from later LC-MS work.
Read the original research
Chemical composition and nutritional and medicinal value of fruit bodies and submerged cultured mycelia of culinary-medicinal higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms.
International journal of medicinal mushrooms, 16(3), 273-91
Citation
Cohen, Nachshol; Cohen, Jacob; Asatiani, Mikheil D; Varshney, Vinay K; Yu, Hui-Tzu; Yang, Yi-Chi; Li, Yu-Hsuan; Mau, Jeng-Leun; Wasser, Solomon P. (2014). Chemical composition and nutritional and medicinal value of fruit bodies and submerged cultured mycelia of culinary-medicinal higher Basidiomycetes mushrooms.. International journal of medicinal mushrooms, 16(3), 273-91. https://doi.org/10.1615/intjmedmushr.v16.i3.80