Iceland moss
Iceland moss, Cetraria islandica, is an Arctic-alpine lichen, not a moss or a mushroom. It was boiled to remove its bitterness and used in breads, porridges and soups, and now survives mainly in folk remedies.
Ingredients
1086 articles on substrates, cultures and additives.
Fruit, vegetables and seaweedsFruit, vegetables, roots, alliums, seaweeds and algae.
Grains, legumes and nutsGrains, flours, malts, starches, beans, pulses, nuts, seeds and the coffee, cocoa and tea crops.
Mushrooms and fungiCultivated and wild mushrooms, truffles and other edible fungi, and lichens.
Meat and fishMeat, offal, fat, casings, fish, shellfish and insects.
Dairy and eggsMilk by animal, cream, butter, milk powders, rennets, dairy additives and eggs.
Sugars and sweetenersRefined and unrefined sugars, honeys, syrups, molasses and malt sugars.
Herbs and spicesHerbs, seed and bark spices, peppercorns, chillies, aromatic roots, brewing botanicals and resins.
Lichens
Jhyau
Everniastrum cirrhatum, a tree-dwelling lichen of the Nepal Himalaya, gathered wild and used in soups, pickles and sausages by the Limbu and Rai communities of the north-east hills.