Sainsbury’s is promising guilt-free fungi as it becomes the first supermarket in the UK to offer customers mushrooms produced without peat.
The new peat free variety, which has been developed in collaboration with Monaghan, will provide about one fifth of all mushrooms sold by the major multiple retailer.
Noel Hegarty, chief commercial officer at Monaghan said: “At Monaghan, we are committed to lowering our climate impact across every facet of our operations.
Although mushrooms already have a low carbon footprint in comparison to other foods, we want to take this further with our journey to net zero.
Peat-free mushrooms are a huge step forward with that ambition.”
