The Perfect New Superfood for Your Daily Cup of Coffee

Chaga coffee is a quality new alternative to regular coffee that tons of folks in the health and wellness world have given a real

On top of coffee blends, there’s all kinds of mushroom supplements to try with chaga. This includes:

• Tinctures

• Powders

• Gummies

• Teas

While chaga teas and coffees are popular, our team at Troomy’s taken a quick overview of each of these to find the perfect chaga mushroom supplement for your daily routine. After extensive research and quality evaluation of each mushroom in daily routine convenience, we’ve found mushroom gummies are the way to go when trying out chaga.

Additionally, we’ve built in lion’s mane, cordyceps, reishi, turkey tail, and other mushrooms into our blends to have five powerful pillars of wellness in your day.

But why give them a try at all? What sets these mushrooms apart, and why should you consider chaga as your next favorite tea, coffee, or gummy supplement? 

What is Chaga?

Chaga mushrooms are leading adaptogens for functional use, and can offer quality daily benefits. Found in cold-climate countries all over the world, these fungi are high in vitamins, proteins, and have been linked to supporting long-term health benefits.

Now, they’re more readily available than ever because of their introduction primarily into the fitness, health, and corporate space. Chaga acts as a natural superfood for increasing daily output both physically and mentally. Each of these key components drives a more consistent, effective, and healthy day ahead.

However, while the chaga mushroom is delicious and ready to be popped into your diet with supplements today, it wasn’t always like that.

The History of Chaga Mushroom Coffee

Decades ago, chaga became a Finnish coffee substitute throughout World War II. This is one of the earlier modern uses chaga found, but the medicinal mushroom use in folk culture dates back several thousand years.

This use began in colder climates like Canada, Siberia, and Russia, where the conk formed on birch trees carries parasitic properties for quality functional health benefits. If you see it in person, wild chaga may look like burnt brownies or charcoal in some cases that are then sourced for making organic mushroom coffee blends. This allows you to take morning coffee to the next level fast.

While roast coffee or regular coffee might be what’s in your diet today, chaga mushroom coffee is well worth a try. It combines the benefits of adaptogen properties into a ground coffee mixture, with mushroom extracts carrying the foundational benefits necessary for quality daily productivity.

Wild vs Cultivated Adaptogenic Mushrooms

Mushrooms vary a significant deal when they are cultivated vs being found in the wild. Bioactive compounds of mushrooms are the biggest foundation we’re looking for.

For example, the immune-system-related support was only found to be about 50% as effective as wild chaga. Naturally growing chaga uses wood instead of grains to produce its compounds, which is far more effective in developing the mushroom into a powerhouse of natural vitamins and other proteins. Additionally, the parasitic relationship between the mushroom and the tree is what holds this genetic composition together.

Anti-inflammatory and anti-viral properties for example can root in betulinic acid. Birch trees are required to get this foundational benefit, which certified organic mushrooms usually will have, but isn’t always the case depending on the brand.

 

Understanding the Health Benefits of Chaga Coffee and Chaga Tea

Chaga coffee expedites the process of getting mushrooms into your diet without sacrificing daily benefits. However, coffee itself has a handful of inherent benefits to consider as well, since a morning beverage is such a game-changer in the quality of your day ahead.

Extract vs Raw Mushrooms

Extract is used heavily in functional mushrooms supplements today to make beta-glucans, cholesterol, cardiovascular, and gut health support accessible. It consolidate the linked benefits of blood sugar control, immune support, and immune function all into one tightly compact little gummy, tincture, or powder.

The same goes for raw mushrooms, they just require a bit more attention. Since they come to your kitchen cupboard raw, you're going to have to prepare them differently, drying them and storing them properly. This also requires attention to shelf life, while nootropic forms in gummies, powders, and tinctures all have extended shelf lives given their extract form.

Now, the fortunate thing is that both can be added to your chaga mushroom coffee blend. Raw mushrooms or extract will still both have zero caffeine and help you avoid those jitters, it just comes down to which one you feel comfortable adding into your diet regularly.

Is Chaga Coffee Healthier?

At its foundation, chaga mushrooms are inherently more nutrient-rich than the average coffee bean. This makes them powerful for daily coffee blends, and are high in antioxidants, great for gut health, improving cholesterol, and more.

Extended Mental Health Benefits of the Chaga Mushroom

Additionally, mental health has been linked to improving naturally through chaga mushroom use daily. Primarily, your body gets more relaxed with the adaptogenic properties of functional mushrooms like chaga and reishi, as the body acclimates to stress with ease.

Then, it just comes down to getting the mushroom into your diet easily.

How Do I Make Chaga Coffee?

Chaga coffee takes a bit of elbow grease to make, but is actually quite simple once you get the routine down. It’s a fun little project you can get going on your back patio or in the backyard if you have the space, just be sure to keep track of their growth process, the expectations you have of their balance in your diet, and what health benefits you can get out of the mushroom.

Ingredients:

• Quart and a half cup (1/2) of hot water

• 1-2 tsp of chaga mushrooms (in ground-up powder or raw mushrooms)

• 1 tsp of maple syrup/honey

• 1/2 cup of nut milk of your choice (almond, walnut, etc.)

• cinnamon (optional, add at your discretion)

• Blender (required)

• Frother (optional)

Recipe:

Step 1: add main ingredients (honey or maple syrup, mushroom powder, cinnamon, and any other additives) into your blender.

Step 2: Heat the milk of your choice and pour into the blender until frothy.

Step 3: Add or reduce sweetness for your own needs, as well as the powder percentage for mushroom volume. Natural sweeteners can offer a variety of tastes depending on your preference.

Step 4: Serve and add any garnishes of your choice (whipped cream, coconut, etc.). Can be kept for up to 3 days tops.

Does Chaga Taste Like Coffee?

While it might be blended into coffee, it’s not exactly the same thing. The mushroom variety adds an earthy, naturally vanilla atmosphere to the flavor and can be mixed into a ton of different blends.

This carries a bit of weight into how the mushroom’s able to be blended into delicious concoctions of teas and coffees, as the natural flavors can have mixed reviews when tasted in their natural state.

If you’ve tried other mushroom powder coffees like reishi, for example, you’ll find that chaga is far less bitter even with minimal additions to add flavor. Chaga might remind you of a camping, campfire, or medium roast coffee almost.

Regardless of whether this is your flavor of choice, you can always seek out alternatives to Chaga coffee as well in order to get daily benefits.

Alternative Ways To Give Chaga a Try

Beyond coffee, there’s a ton of routes we’ve considered for pursuing chaga use. Supplement powders, tinctures, gummies, and more can be found all over. It just comes down to which process you enjoy the most, what works best for you, and how you feel like you can get started today.

Raw Mushrooms

Cooking up and drying raw mushrooms is one of the first steps to making coffee, but can instead be a fun route to getting them into meal prep.

The trouble with raw mushrooms is the prep time. If you don’t have a solid amount of time on-hand for the mushrooms to be prepared well, dried, and cooked up, then you’re going to have a tough time really enjoying their benefits.

The same can be said about supplements in general which require a bit of hands-on work.

Mushroom Powder

Mushroom powder is a bit easier to get started with when you’re trying chaga mushrooms. You get a ton of the values from a complete mushroom, and are able to work it in a bit faster with a higher variety of blends and applications for the powder.

For example, a raw mushroom takes time to prepare and cultivate on your own, and can be expensive to just get at the grocery store. Instead, getting a powder can be a whole lot faster.

The thing is, powder always needs something to go with it. Cooking up a meal, blending a smoothie, etc. If you don't have that extra component, the supplement can still take up a lot of time, and you might not even like the earthy flavor that powders maintain in the first place.

Additionally, most powder blends have caffeine as well. That's where gummies can set themselves apart.

Mushroom Gummies

Mushroom gummies are our favorite route at Troomy to get quality mushroom benefits in your daily routine. You can blast delicious flavors of tropical fruity goodness into your diet with none of the hassle, and all of the functional wellness support.

Are Mushroom Gummies Better?

Mushroom gummies are the quickest, most readily streamlined version of mushroom nootropics. Additionally, they extend shelf life of mushrooms, concentrate them to compact servings, and are deliciously flavored.

At Troomy, we’ve worked tirelessly to create a zero caffeine, zero added-sugar blend to make your day as easy as ever. With virtually no calories and only organic ingredients, each blend creates inherent value that sticks out from the competition.

Now, gummies aren’t for everyone. You might not like the consistency of gelatin, or have always had overly-sugary gummies in the past.

Considering that our gummies are organic, we include zero gelatin in our blends. This makes for a unique and enjoyable daily supplement experience, easing your morning routine and offering complete functional support centered around your needs rather than just general help.

Mushroom gummies offer wallet-friendly, delicious solutions to improving your daily routine fast. Now, finding the perfect blend is the first step to getting started.

Getting Started with Troomy Today!

Overall, mushrooms like chaga are a great place to get started with adaptogenic mushroom wellness. Every mushroom blend has its own pros and cons, but we find the perfect way to give them a try is our mushroom gummies for convenience, flavor, and quality benefits.

Daily is our recommended blend to try first. We have a strong price point that’s wallet-friendly for mushroom nootropics, and Daily carries 14 different mushrooms in its blend for elevating your daily wellness routine.

However, Cordyceps mushrooms, lion’s mane, and more can all be found within our other powerful nootropic blends of delicious gummies. The trick is just finding the perfect combination of blends for you.