Your Guide to Getting the Most Out of Powdered Mushroom Extract Products
Optimize Nutrition by Adding Powdered Mushroom Extracts to Your Daily Routine
A great way to incorporate medicinal mushrooms into your daily routine is by mixing powdered mushroom extracts into your favourite breakfast, beverage, or recipes of choice. Upgrade your snacks and drinks by adding mushroom extract powder and experience the benefits of these superfoods that support your body and mind from Eversio Wellness.
What Is a Powdered Mushroom Supplement?
A powdered mushroom extract supplement should be made from the whole fruiting bodies of medicinal mushrooms. But, sometimes substrates (often rice or oats) are also included in the production of powders. Because of this, a mushroom powder might include a lot of filler that isn’t rich in beneficial compounds. As a result, powdered mushroom products are often less potent and effective than a powdered mushroom extract.
The Benefits of Adding a Powdered Mushroom Extract to Your Routine
Functional mushrooms are packed with antioxidants, beta-glucans, vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. As a result, medicinal mushrooms can provide numerous health benefits. However, the effects and benefits depend on the type of healthy mushrooms you choose. Here we highlight the top 6 benefits of functional mushroom powder extracts.
Boost Energy Levels and Physical Performance
Athletes and other people with active lifestyles need energy, stamina, and endurance to maintain their routine. Adding powdered mushrooms to their meals and drinks can help. Cordyceps mushroom powder has the ability to increase stamina, improve blood flow, and enhance oxygen absorption. As a result, you get the energy you need to perform and reach your highest potential.
Support Mental Health and Cognitive Function
Powdered mushroom extracts are known for improving mental agility, memory, and brain function. Specifically, lion's mane functional mushrooms are famous for their brain boosting benefits. Lion's mane is popular in the world of mushrooms for wellness for its ability to encourage Nerve Growth Factor (NGF). This is important to promote a healthy brain and avoid neurodegenerative diseases such as dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
Reduce Negative Effects of Stress
Traditionally, medicinal mushrooms are used to ease anxiety and stress. Studies show that reishi can reduce stress and anxiety by helping to relax the mind. These functional mushrooms are high in phenols and flavonoids which are responsible for their anti-anxiety and anti-stress effects. Reishi mushroom supplements are commonly used to improve sleep quality because of their calming and adaptogenic effects.
Strengthen the Immune System
Functional mushrooms contain polysaccharides that are responsible for strengthening the immune system and preventing infections. Reishi, also called the mushroom of immortality, is rich in polysaccharides that activate the immune response when a pathogen is invading your body. Chaga can also encourage spleen lymphocytes to regulate the immune system and improve the ability of the body to fight pathogens.
Fight Infammation Before It Begins
Certain medicinal mushrooms contain high levels of antioxidants. Antioxidants are very important because they fight free radicals in the body. Free radicals are associated with numerous health problems including inflammatory disease. Adding powdered mushroom extracts rich with antioxidants, like Chaga, can prevent cell and tissue damage caused by free radicals and help you to avoid inflammatory conditions.
Defend Against Viral Infections
To protect themselves, functional mushrooms develop toxins that are harmful to bacteria and viruses, but not to humans. These toxins can protect them in the wild and offer benefits to humans. Medicinal mushrooms, such as maitake, shiitake, reishi, and cordyceps, can strengthen the immune system, fight infections, and protect the body from pathogens.
Powdered Mushroom vs Mushroom Extracts
Powdered mushrooms and mushroom extracts may look the same to the naked eye, however, the beneficial compounds, purity, effectiveness, and potency of mushroom extracts are much greater. This is because of the exclusion of grain, extraction techniques for bioavailability, and quality of mature functional mushrooms used to create the mushroom extract. Let's talk about their similarities and differences.
Parts of Functional Mushrooms
Used and Extraction
Powdered mushroom supplements can be made using the whole fruiting body of the functional mushrooms, or from just the mycelium grown out on a grain substrate (grain spawn). Either way, these will go through a drying process at 40°C or lower temperature. Then, they are milled or ground to create the mushroom powder.
In the case of mushroom extracts, the whole fruiting body of the medicinal mushroom is used with no mycelium and no grain fillers. The processing includes a sophisticated extraction procedure. The extraction technique will differ depending on the supplier, but the goal is the same, to extract all the targeted beneficial compounds from the functional mushrooms, and leave the fibre, moisture and impurities behind.
Mushroom Supplements: Their Medicinal Compounds, Potency, and Effectiveness
The main difference between powdered mushrooms and mushroom extracts is the presence and percentage of bioactive compounds, which greatly influences their effects and benefits.
When making mushroom powder, all of the functional mushrooms used remain intact giving these products the same nutritional benefits as eating mushrooms as food, with a little grain as a side dish. Mushroom extract contains significantly higher levels of beta-glucans and many other medicinal compounds because the extraction process draws these out of the dried mushrooms and makes them bioavailable to us. In addition, our expert team can control which bioactive compounds will stay behind or be increased after the extraction process depending on whether a single or dual process is used. As a result, mushroom extract supplements are more concentrated and more effective. A little goes a long way!
Upgrade Your Powdered Mushroom for a More Effective and Potent Mushroom Extract Blend
Most of the bioactive and beneficial compounds available in mushrooms are found in the whole fruiting body of functional mushrooms. Mycelium acts as the roots of the medicinal mushroom but can’t be removed from the grain it is grown on in the case of mycelium on grain products.
At Eversio Wellness, we ONLY use the whole fruiting body of the medicinal mushrooms' life cycle. No growing substrate. No fillers. No grains. Only pure, concentrated, and potent mushroom extracts. To create our mushroom supplements, the medicinal mushrooms we use are grown outside on USDA Organic certified farms on wood. We let the functional mushrooms absorb oxygen and nutrients naturally to maximize the potency of our mushroom extract blends.
AWAKEN 3 Mushroom Extract Blend: Turkey Tail + Cordyceps + Lion’s Mane
If you want to give your mornings a mushroom intelligence upgrade, the AWAKEN mushroom extract blend is a MUST! AWAKEN is formulated with 3 varieties of functional mushrooms — turkey tail, cordyceps, and lion's mane. Adding 1/2 teaspoon of this premium mushroom extract blend to your beverages, cereal, oatmeal, yogurt, or smoothies will give you the effects of coffee without the caffeine.
Including AWAKEN in your daily morning routine can strengthen your immune system, boost your energy, and improve your brain health and cognitive function.
REJUVENATE 6 Mushroom Extract Blend: Lion's Mane + Chaga + Oyster + Tremella + Maitake + Shiitake
REJUVENATE is our anti-aging mushroom extract blend with the benefits of ergothioneine, terpenes, and triterpenes. It is formulated with 6 different varieties of medicinal mushrooms — oyster, chaga, tremella, lion's mane, shiitake, and maitake — the anti-aging heroes! Adding 1/2 teaspoon of this premium mushroom extract blend can give you natural rejuvenating effects, inside and out.
REJUVENATE is packed with antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties helping you strengthen your immune system, protect your body from pathogens, and fight free radicals which are the common cause of premature skin aging. Look and feel your best by adding REJUVENATE to your daily routine!
BALANCE 4 Mushroom Extract Blend: Lion’s Mane + Maitake + Reishi + Shiitake
Work-life balance is necessary to maintain a healthy mind, body, and soul. If you need help in this area, the BALANCE mushroom extract blend is your best bet! BALANCE is formulated with 4 organic medicinal mushrooms — reishi, lion's mane, maitake, and shiitake. Adding 1/2 teaspoon of this premium mushroom extract blend to your recipes and drinks will give you the stress relief and good quality sleep you need.
Incorporating BALANCE Blend into your recipes will boost your immune system, increase cognitive function, relieve stress, and improve sleep quality. For your overall wellness, try the BALANCE mushroom extract blend. Rest, reset, and repeat with Eversio Wellness!
How to Incorporate Our Mushroom Extract Blend Into Your Daily Routine?
There are various ways to use functional mushroom extract. We hope you’ll get creative, experiment, and try new things to find what works for you. Here are 5 ways to easily and quickly use your mushroom extracts:
1. Add mushroom extracts to your morning coffee or tea. Mushroom extracts might have a strong flavor, but they pair well with other astringents like coffee. If you want to lighten up the flavour, add your favourite healthy coffee creamer or sweetener.
2. Energy bars with mushroom extracts. If you are making your energy bars or bites, sprinkle mushroom extracts into the mix before baking. Or if you have already made energy bars, sprinkle mushroom extracts on top before eating.
3. Add mushroom extracts to your smoothies or shake. Add 1/2 teaspoon of mushroom extracts when making your smoothies or shakes. So easy! With such a small amount, you won’t even notice it’s there.
4. Food with mushroom extracts. Mix extracts into stir fry dishes, soups, and sauces while cooking. Use it just like any seasoning you use.
5. Take mushroom extracts in convenient capsules. If you are not fond of the flavors of functional mushrooms, you can take them in capsule form. This is a convenient and practical way of using functional mushroom extracts.
