Iliani Patinho is grateful to CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior, Brazil, for the master scholarship (process n° 1766129). Juan D. Rios-Mera received the support of the CIENCIACTIVA programme, PhD scholarship contract n° 238-2018-FONDECYT. The authors would also like to thank Zucca mushrooms Company, VPJ Foods, Ibrac Additives and Condiments and Sealed Air Brazil, for donating ingredients, raw materials and packaging.

We would like to thank Jorge Cabrera for his help with designing the packaging. E. Saldaña received the support of the “Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Tecnológica – CONCYTEC” from Peru (CIENCIACTIVA programme, PhD scholarship contract agreement No. 104-2016-FONDECYT). Thais C. Merlo thanks “Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior” (CAPES) for the scholarship. We would like to thank the valuable contributions of the two anonymous reviewers as they significantly improved the preliminary version of the present study.