Shogun Maitake Canada

About Shogun Maitake Canada

Shogun Maitake Canada is a company located on Colonel Talbot Rd. in the Tempo neighbourhood of London, Ontario. It produces culinary maitake and maitake supplements for the global market, specifically focusing on the cultivation of black maitake mushrooms. The company uses a proprietary, organic growing process in a facility that replicates the natural conditions of the mountains in northeastern Japan. The mushrooms are grown without pesticides or chemicals. The company states its products are intended to support immune health and notes that clinical trials at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center used a strain identical to the one they cultivate. Mr. Yoshinobu Odaira founded the business. He is a humanitarian and environmentalist who developed indigenous techniques for maitake cultivation in Japan. Shogun Maitake works with scientific advisor Dr. Hiroaki Nanba, a Professor Emeritus at Kobe Pharmaceutical University who researches the medicinal properties of maitake mushrooms.