Extract or powder?Updated 7 months ago

Whilst we have had Lion’s Mane powder for sale on our website, we’ve decided to move away from offering it despite there being demand.

Mushroom powders are of course healthy and nutritious but the bioactive compounds everyone is after are more often than not not bioavailable to our bodies.

We feel that offering mushroom powders is somewhat duping consumers as they are not getting the potential benefits that they are seeking.

Powders can be used in cooking or steeped in hot water to produce teas. Steeping works as an extraction process to make water-soluable benefical compounds bioavailabe to us. But alcohol-soluble compounds, locked up in the tough chitin cell walls are not readily absorbed by our bides.

Dual-extraction involves a water extraction and an alcohol extraction. Some of the compounds we're after in mushrooms can't be extracted by water or by our bodies: terpenes (specifically, triterpenoids), sterols, and flavonoids.

We split our batches of mushrooms into two: half is water extracted, half is alcohol extracted, we then mix in (homogenise) mushroom fruiting body to offer the most full-spectrum product on the market.

Head to "The Science" for a deeper look at extraction.