Photoprotective properties of extracts from cultivated and wild macromycetes

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