Therapeutic Grade Medicinal Mushrooms for Every Moment

There are two types of functional mushroom based supplements available to consumers seeking mushrooms for wellness - powdered mushrooms and extracts. It’s important to know there’s a big difference between the two and how each can offer the health benefits of mushrooms. Here are the facts:

Extracts are concentrated sources of mushroom compounds. They are made from dried mushroom fruiting bodies where the most important functional mushroom compounds are found in the highest concentrations. All of the mushroom fiber is removed during extraction, leaving behind concentrated mushroom compounds. The extraction process uses hot water or alcohol or both to isolate and make bioavailable the compounds that were locked inside the chitin wall of the dried mushroom. There is no grain or other growing substrate included in an extract, and all impurities are removed in the extraction process. A very small amount of extract consumed daily over a prolonged period of time is needed to experience benefits.

Powders are usually composed of a combination of fruiting bodies and mycelium entangled with growing substrate (various types of grain). It’s impossible to separate mycelium from the grain it’s grown on, so grain is always included in lab grown mycelium based mushroom powder products. All of the constituents of the functional mushrooms and grains, including the fiber, remain intact during the drying and grinding (or micronization) processes of powders. The grain is unfortunately included in the final powdered product and impurities can also remain. Powders may be beneficial, but they offer very small quantities of these compounds. Therefore, large servings are required to experience benefits over a prolonged period of time. This can become very expensive.

Our mushroom supplements are made from extracts that contain all of the naturally occurring water and alcohol soluble compounds found in functional mushrooms in the right quantities to support your health and wellbeing. Each of the compounds in our single mushroom capsules or multi mushroom blends plays an important role in supporting your body: