There are toadstools of higher flavor, but not one of greater delicacy. In this C. comatus is not excelled from its earliest stage until fully ripened. It is everywhere commended.
Lafayette B. Mendel, in American Journal of Physiology, gives the following analysis:
The specimens were freshly gathered and had not yet turned “inky.” They varied very widely in size, thirty-six mushrooms weighing 1485 grams, of which 980 grams belonged to the caps (pileus) and 505 grams to the stems. The average weight of a fresh specimen was thus:
| Pileus | 27 | grams |
| Stem | 14 | |
| — | ||
| Total weight | 41 |
A specimen which had attained the average growth weighed:
| Pileus | 43 | grams |
| Stem | 25 | |
| — | ||
| Total weight | 68 |
An analysis yielded the following results:
| Water | 92.19 | per cent. |
| Total solids | 7.81 |
The dry substance contained:
| Total nitrogen | 5.79 | per cent. |
| Extractive nitrogen | 3.87 | |
| Protein nitrogen | 1.92 | |
| Ether extract | 3.3 | |
| Crude fiber | 7.3 | |
| Ash | 12.5 | |
| Material soluble in 85 per cent. alcohol | 56.3 |