Mushroom Coffee
Mushrom coffee combines traditional coffee with medicinal mushrooms like chaga, reishi, and lion’s mane. It’s popular with health enthusiasts who believe the drink helps with energy, focus, and immunity.
It’s important to take the health claims around mushroom coffee with a grain of salt because most haven’t been tested in scientific trials. There is, however, some evidence that mushrooms can improve sleep quality and help people feel less stressed. Mushrooms are also considered adaptogens, which means they’re known to help the body deal with stress.
Mushroom Coffee: A Typo Worth Trying
Most mushroom coffee products contain a blend of ground, dehydrated mushrooms and coffee beans. Some don’t contain any coffee at all, such as Four Sigmatic’s coffee elixir mix and MUDWTR, while others only have half the caffeine of a regular brewed cup of coffee (between 100 and 150 mg). Many are also free from milk and gluten. Several have other ingredients, including herbs and amino acids, such as ashwagandha and L-theanine.
Holland & Barrett recently started selling mushroom coffee from British company Four Stigmatic, which comes in technicolor packaging and promises “zero jitters” and no energy crashes. It costs PS40 a pack and contains chaga, reishi, cordyceps, lion’s mane, and MCT oil.
Everyday Dose offers a similar blend, but with different mushrooms and without MCT oil. It’s free from dairy, gluten, GMOs, soy, sugar, and heavy metals and also has a free starter kit and a money-back guarantee. It costs $36 for a 30-serving bag.
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