Editing Slime mold (section)

=== Used as food ===

In central Mexico, the [[false puffball]] ''Enteridium lycoperdon'' was traditionally used as food; it was one of the species which mushroom-collectors or ''hongueros'' gathered on trips into the forest in the rainy season. One of its local names is "cheese mushroom", so called for its texture and flavor when cooked. It was salted, wrapped in a [[maize]] leaf, and baked in the ashes of a campfire; or boiled and eaten with maize [[tortilla]]s. ''Fuligo septica'' was similarly collected in Mexico, cooked with onions and peppers and eaten in a tortilla. In Ecuador, ''Lycogala epidendrum'' was called "yakich" and eaten raw as an appetizer.<ref name="Requejo Andres-Rodriguez 2019">{{cite journal |last1=Requejo  |first1=Oscar |last2=Andres-Rodriguez |first2=N. Floro |title=Consideraciones Etnobiologicas sobre los Mixomicetos |trans-title=Ethnobiological Considerations on Myxomycetes |journal=Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid |volume=43 |date=2019 |pages=25–37 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/339201976 |language=es}}</ref>