For those that love the nutty, earthy flavour of coffee but want to give their diet a health boost, mushroom coffee is a popular new option. It’s made by blending medicinal mushrooms like chaga, lion’s mane, cordyceps and reishi with instant coffee and sometimes other ingredients including cacao, cinnamon or tea blends to make a brew that is claimed to boost energy, lower stress levels, improve immune health and more.
The best GB Mushroom Coffee coffees are usually sold as powders so you can add them to your regular morning cup of joe. Unlike some other superfoods, mushroom coffees don’t have a strong flavour, so they tend to taste quite similar to normal coffee (albeit lighter). And you can often mix them with milk or non-dairy alternatives and sweetener to suit your tastes.
Several companies have jumped on the mushroom coffee bandwagon, including newcomer Sacred 7 which boasts that its heavily fortified blend of lion’s mane, chaga and turkey tail is a “coffee replacement that gives you zero jitters or crashing”, and more established rival Spacegoods with technicolour packaging and a multi-mushroom blend called Rainbow Dust. It’s priced at PS40 a packet and is also said to contain MCT oil, collagen and ashwagandha for calm energy and reduced anxiety.
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The ‘adaptogenic’ mushrooms used in many of these fungi-infused coffee mixes are thought to help the body manage stress by influencing how your hypothalamic pituitary-adrenal axis reacts to it. However, few well-designed studies have been done on humans to prove that these benefits are a result of drinking mushroom coffee.