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The order of antioxidant abundance found in inedible wild mushrooms was: phenolics &gt; flavonoids &gt; ascorbic acid &gt; tocopherols &gt; carotenoids, similar to that of edible species. Furthermore the same energetic biomolecules were found including the disaccharide trehalose, the monosaccharide alcohol derivative mannitol and the fatty acids palmitic, oleic and linoleic acids. Fomitopsis pinicola revealed a very high phenolics concentration (388 mg GAE\/g extract) and powerful antioxidant properties, mainly reducing power (EC50 value 60 \u03bcg\/mL similar to the standard Trolox\u00ae). 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