Vol. 2, Issue 12, Part J (2016)

Abstract
Seven different species of wild grown edible mushrooms Agaricus bitorquis, Auricularia auricula-judae, Cantharellus cibarius, Flammulina velutipes, Lactarius delicious, Pleurotus eryngii and Verpa bohemica growing in the East Black Sea region were analyzed used ion chromatography with conductivity detector for their anions (floride, chloride, bromide, nitrite, nitrate, sulfate, chlorate, phosphate, chromate and oxalate) levels. In the mushrooms, the highest anion concentrations were measured as 0.52 mg/g F-, 4.97 mg/g CI-, 2.51 NO₂- mg/g and 0.44 mg/g PO4^3- in Agaricus bitorquis, 7.90 mg/g CrO4²-, 20.10 mg/g SO₄^2- and 0.042 mg/g C₂O₄²- in Cantharellus cibarius on a dry-weight-basis. Br-, CIO₃- and NO₃- content were not determined in any mushrooms species. Retention times of the inorganic anions in standard solutions eluted between 3.34 and 18.29 min as shown in chromatograms. In all cases the retention order F‒ < CrO₄^2− < Cl− < NO₂− < Br- < CIO₃- < NO₃− < PO₄^3− < SO₄²âˆ’ < C₂O₄²âˆ’ typical was observed.