"Suillus luteus" is an edible mushroom, but the slime/pileipellis must be removed. Although some authors regard it as one of low quality, and generally inferior to co-occurring species such as "Boletus pinophilus", the species is considered a delicacy in Slavic cultures (known as "maslyata" in Russian or "maślaki" in Polish, deriving from words meaning "buttery"). It was highly regarded in Calabria, even more than "Boletus edulis", until the 1940s when increased interest in the latter species eclipsed the former. Mushrooms conforming to "Suillus luteus" are exported from Chile to Italy, and, since the 1970s, the United States. As of 2002, harvesters in Chile were paid on average US$0.5 per kilogram of fruit bodies.