{"id":106790,"date":"2020-05-08T15:23:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/mushroom-sales-soar-as-americans-cook-more-at-home-during-pandemic"},"modified":"2020-05-08T15:23:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:23:19","slug":"mushroom-sales-soar-as-americans-cook-more-at-home-during-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/mushroom-sales-soar-as-americans-cook-more-at-home-during-pandemic","title":{"rendered":"Mushroom sales soar as Americans cook more at home during pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mushroom-sales-soar-as-americans-cook-more-at-home-during-pandemic.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 17 (UPI) \u2014 As produce sales at grocery stores surge during the coronavirus pandemic, one item is selling particularly well \u2014 mushrooms.<\/p>\n<p>During the last week of March, fresh mushroom sales were up 18 percent over the same time last year, compared to an 8 percent rise in overall fresh produce sales, according to the Chicago-based data and analytics firm IRI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe take heart in those numbers,\u201d said Eric Davis, a spokesman for the Mushroom Council, an industry group based in Redwood Shores, Calif. \u201cWe take heart that we\u2019re in that group of staple items. You look for bright spots during this time, and that is one for us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVANSVILLE, Ind., April 17 (UPI) \u2014 As produce sales at grocery stores surge during the coronavirus pandemic, one item is selling particularly well \u2014 mushrooms. During the last week of March, fresh mushroom sales were up 18 percent over the same time last year, compared to an 8 percent rise in overall fresh produce sales, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}