Mushroom production in pinghu city began in 1979, when it was the production base of canned mushroom raw materials for Shanghai state-owned foreign trade export enterprises. In recent years, the management level of mushroom industrialization has been continuously improved, and the leap-forward development has been realized. In 1998, pinghu city Agricultural and Sideline Products Wholesale Market Co., Ltd. registered the brand of fresh mushrooms in Xindanghu Lake, and adopted this brand with the Municipal Edible Fungi Technology Association and the Municipal Edible Fungi Professional Cooperative in the sales of fresh mushrooms for farmers in the base. In 22, the cultivated area of mushrooms in pinghu city reached 6.24 million square feet, and the total output of mushrooms reached 8,165 tons, which sold well in the vegetable markets of Shanghai, Zhejiang and Jiangsu. In 21-22, Xindanghu brand fresh mushrooms won the honorary titles of Provincial Agricultural Fair Quality Award, Jiaxing Agricultural Fair Quality Product, pinghu city Quality Agricultural Products Brand Award and Consumer Association Recommended Products for five times.
Fresh mushrooms in Xindang Lake are taken as the mother species in Fujian AS2796, and the standardized production technology of fresh mushrooms in Xindang Lake, pinghu city is adopted. After pollution-free cultivation, the commercial mushrooms are white in color, firm in quality, round in shape, fresh and tender in taste, and contain lysine, protein, various minerals, vitamins, unsaturated fatty acids and polysaccharides necessary for human body, which has high nutritional value and is an ideal health care and anticancer food.