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Mushroom Coffee in Stores and Online
Mushroom coffee is an aromatic blend of powdered medicinal mushrooms and other ingredients that can be mixed or frothed into hot or cold water to form a traditional coffee-style beverage. Many mushroom coffee varieties contain significantly less caffeine than standard coffee, helping reduce stress while increasing cognitive functions.
Solve Labs has created this blend to reduce stress with four functional mushrooms (lion’s mane, cordyceps and reishi), adaptogen ashwagandha and turmeric as well as instant sachets or ground form suitable for French press or drip coffee makers.
Dodjivi
Dodjivi is an innovative health and wellness company specializing in mushroom-based health and wellness products, such as their Premium Healthy Coffee. Crafted with organic functional mushrooms for maximum immunity boosting, vitality enhancement, sleep quality improvement, memory enhancement, and general wellbeing improvement – Dodjivi hopes to inspire global communities towards improving health through small steps forward.
Dodjivi began as the result of founder Komlanvi and his wife Claudine’s struggles with poor health, where functional mushrooms provided significant relief. Once seeing how beneficial functional mushrooms had been to Claudine’s health, they created Dodjivi to spread these benefits more broadly.
Dodjivi is a Canadian company based in Gatineau, Quebec dedicated to making high-quality mushroom-based products accessible worldwide. Their goal is to lead a revolution in the functional food industry and foster wellness culture throughout their global community.
Dodjivi’s goal was to create packaging designs that accurately represented their values and vision for their brand. After selecting Rootree’s Superior Plus Package, our design team started designing their new look – beautiful yet earthy with soft matte colors complemented with gold metallic pops – perfectly reflecting Dodjivi’s brand message and values.
Once their design was complete, Dodjivi began planning their product launch with Rootree’s Creative Services team and developed buyer personas, branding strategies and logos in just three weeks! Rebranding went smoothly thanks to these tools!
Dodjivi’s logo features a mushroom-textured hippopotamus, the national animal of Togo where its co-founder hails from West Africa. Hippo is often considered an emblem of strength and perseverance, which fits seamlessly with Dodjivi as a brand. Furthermore, they symbolize learning and memory – ideal characteristics to reflect in coffee that promotes memory retention and learning! Additionally, Dodjivi uses their hippo as part of its marketing collateral in order to drive home their message more effectively.
Clevr Coffee SuperLatte
Clevr is a functional superfood brand that creates better-than-barista beverages using adaptogens and probiotics. Their popular Coffee SuperLatte, Sleeptime SuperLatte, Matcha SuperLatte and Chai SuperLatte all boast vegan credentials with no refined sugar added and contain 500 million heat-safe probiotics as well as adaptogens like Lion’s Mane and Ashwagandha that are known to reduce stress while increasing energy.
The founders of this company developed an interest in adaptogens as part of their daily routine but found it challenging to locate clean and convenient options. So they created their own blends, selling them through Whole Foods. Each flavor features different adaptogens as well as better-than-barista ingredients; their Coffee SuperLatte includes organic oat milk and coconut creamer as well as lion’s mane and reishi mushrooms to help manage stress.
Clevr’s products offer a superior alternative to traditional coffee by featuring low caffeine levels and without artificial flavors or colors, made with organic and fair trade ingredients and produced using their three-step discovery, expert validation and community testing process to select only top quality ingredients for use in their product line.
The company’s founders are passionate about spreading adaptogen-infused beverages to as many consumers as possible, and their approach to building a functional beverage company has seen rapid expansion. Recently, they even established a partnership with Target in order to widen their reach – tune into this episode of Shopify Masters to find out how they’re preparing for this growth!
Mushroom Coffee
Fungi-coffee might sound like an unlikely combination, yet it has proven incredibly popular. Mushroom coffee can now be found both online retailers as well as brick-and-mortar stores like Target and Wal-Mart, featuring both its umami earthiness combined with the bitter sweetness of instant coffee as a beverage option. Furthermore, mushroom coffee may often come served with milk (or dairy alternatives) and sweetener.
At various brands of mushroom coffee, the benefits can vary by blend; some tout it for improving focus and productivity, while another blend may feature cordyceps to increase energy levels and metabolism. Mushroom coffee has also proven popular among athletes who believe it can enhance performance.
As more research on medicinal mushrooms is conducted, it will become easier to gauge their efficacy in terms of health benefits; but for now, mushroom coffee remains popular and appears set to continue its ascent.
Mushroom coffee may offer numerous benefits, including improved mental clarity, stress relief and better sleep quality. Some types of mushrooms used in its composition, like lion’s mane and reishi are thought to have cognitive benefits and some studies support this claim; turkey tail and shiitake mushrooms are thought to possess anti-inflammatory properties while maitake and chaga mushrooms could possibly aid with digestion.
Consumers interested in mushroom coffee should remember that the beverage should not serve as a replacement for maintaining healthy eating and sleeping patterns, or consulting with their physician before making major dietary changes.
Be mindful that mushroom coffee may contain high FODMAP loads and is not recommended for people suffering from irritable bowel syndrome or who have an allergy to fungi; those allergic should also steer clear from this beverage. As with any new food or supplement, start small before gradually increasing serving sizes.