Cooking with mushrooms can be an awesome route to boosting your daily nutrition. You can get fast proteins, quick energy, tons of vitamins, and more.

Although, it's hard to find the right mushrooms to cook with that pair well with all kinds of recipes. Additionally, if you're trying adaptogenic mushrooms, these aren't as well known in the culinary world.

Luckily, our team at Troomy's taken a deep dive into what makes adaptogenic mushrooms effective in your favorite recipes, what their benefits are, and how you can give them a try today.

Which Mushrooms are the BEST for You?

Mushrooms you'll find at the grocery store all carry some kind of nutritional value. However, with over 14,000 different species discovered today, there's also some that go above and beyond. These are considered as adaptogenic, otherwise known as functional mushrooms. Adaptogenic mushrooms aren't your normal off the shelf mushrooms, but actually just refer to a few of the best-of-the-best mushrooms.

What are Adaptogenic Mushrooms?

Adaptogenic mushrooms are functionally-boosting mushroom species that can make your nutrition much easier to stay consistent with.

They offer high nutritional value with vitamins and minerals, while also serving numerous functional purposes. This could include:

• Improving sleep
• Elevating brain function
• Increasing stamina
• Regulating fatigue
• Antibody properties

Are adaptogenic mushrooms safe?

Absolutely! Make sure, though, to consume them in moderation. For example, if you're trying to put a lion's mane mushroom in your diet regularly, you might want to cut back on any vitamin D supplements. Too much of anything can be harmful to your wellbeing.

Which adaptogenic mushrooms can I cook with?

Depends on what kind of meal plan you're going for. From lion's mane, cordyceps, and reishi, to chaga, turkey tail, and others, you have a ton of recipe variety at your disposal. Overall, every one is worth giving a try.The real question is what support you're looking for, as well as which flavors.

Best Adaptogenic Mushrooms for Support in Your Diet

Lion's Mane Mushroom

The lion's mane mushroom is a fan-favorite in the fitness world. It's been used for centuries in Eastern Asian countries for medicinal use. In Chinese medicine, for example, lion's mane has been primarily used for:

• Insomnia support
• Fatigue resistance
• Protein
• Mood boosting
• Energy lifting

Lion's mane is a complete deadline saver, a project finisher, and cleaning wizard. You can easily become your most productive self with quality lion's mane boosts to spurt you through your day.

Cordyceps Mushoom

Cordyceps are another great place to start with quality, clean energy. You can get those natural vitamins with zero caffeine and still feel amazing all throughout the day. This boosts:

• Productivity
• Exercise performance
• Mood
• Ease of fatigue recovery

Cordyceps are best used in high-functioning workplaces, classrooms, activity at home, and any space where your brain could use a little bit of a boost.

Reishi Mushroom

The reishi mushroom is a perfect relaxer and anxiety supporter to help you get through the day. They're loaded with peptides, triterpenoids, and polsaccharides, which are all connected to health support and daily function. 

As these boost your immune system function and relieve stress, they could also:

• Support reducing stress
• Regulate blood sugar levels
• Improve sleep
• Relieve fatigue

These primary areas are targeted in most reishi blends of supplements, teas, gummies, and more. 

Alternatives to Cooking Mushrooms

Teas and Coffees

Adaptogenic mushroom brews are more popular than ever today, and are a great alternative to your average cup of coffee. Most blends completely eliminate caffeine from the brew, and at the very least reduce it significantly. This can help you avoid crashing and keep you on task for longer.

However, teas and coffees aren't for everyone. Especially if you have to put a bunch of sweeteners in, what's the point?

Powders and Supplements

Supplements take way less time than cooking a full mushroom recipe, and can get some of the same nutritional value with adaptogenic mushroom extracts. 

Mushroom Gummies

These are a newer addition to the mushroom health and wellness scene, but have quickly proved their worth. Mushroom gummies are fast, simple, and versatile additions to your daily routine.

What Makes Mushroom Gummies BETTER?

Zero Caffeine, Zero Crash

Relying on caffeine isn't necessarily dangerous, it just limits what you can do in a day heavily. Then if you don't have your coffee or your go-to energy drink, you'll start to feel off the rest of the day.

Low Sugar, Great Flavor

Even with low sugar, the flavor of mushroom gummies are through the roof. You can usually get a blast of tropical flavor, fruitiness, or tangy flavors depending on the brand.

Your best bet here is to go with plant-based, all-natural blends of adpatogenic mushrooms. These will keep your calorie and sugar intake low, and maximize those mushroom extract support benefits.

Great Value

Getting two months worth of mushrooms would be nice to stockpile up, huh? You just can't go to the store and get mushrooms off the shelf that'll last that long. Especially not adaptogenic mushrooms. 

Fortunately, with mushroom extracts in gummies, you can naturally extend your plant-based supplements to keep your supercharged for two whole months if you had them every single day!

Customized to Your Needs

On top of being a great value, they're customized directly to your needs. You aren't just getting general support, you can effectively work around each need you have as it comes up. 

Getting Started with Troomy Nootropics Today!

Overall, cooking adaptogenic mushrooms is a fun new way to get nutritional value in your day. You can make all kinds of new recipes, and find which mushrooms complement your cooking style best.

On top of some great recipes, you can also try adaptogenic mushroom gummies. At Troomy, we've developed five powerful gummy blends to ensure that you get exactly what you need in your day. Whether that's better sleep, reducing anxiety, or getting some extra energy through the day, we know there's a blend for you.

Take a look at our starting five here to start finding your "True Me" today!