Photoprotective Properties of Extracts From Cultivated and Wild Macromycetes

Abstract

The photoprotective properties of ethanol extracts from fruiting bodies of cultivated macromycetes Hericium erinaceus, Lentinula edodes, Ganoderma lucidum, and Pleurotus ostreatus, and wild-growing Inonotus obliquus, Fomes fomentarius, Trichaptum biforme, and Ganoderma applanatum, were evaluated. The yield of extracts was 29.2%; 25.0%; 11.5% and 9.1% for H. erinaceus, L. edodes, G. lucidum and P. ostreatus, respectively; 16.5%; 2.6%; 2.3% and 5.1% for I. obliquus, F. fomentarius, T. biforme and G. applanatum, respectively. Ethanol extracts from the fruiting bodies of cultivated mushrooms had a low level of photoprotection in terms of SPF, with a score of λcrit = 3÷4, were excellent and most effective in terms of UV-A/UV-B. Extracts from the fruiting bodies of T. biforme and G. applanatum are not photoprotective: the first according to the criterion λcrit < 370 nm; the second is SPF < 15.0. The extract from F. fomentarius is photoprotective, the extract from I. obliquus is close to being photoprotective.