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Australia Made & Grown

Pioneers offering Australia made products (our tinctures / liquid extracts, powders and capsules have always been made in Australia) using Australia grown mushrooms directly from our very own farm in Gippsland/Victoria.

Real Mushroom products

Pioneers in selling real mushroom products in Australia - a market plagued by Australia made/grown over priced myceliated rice (aka "mushroom including the mycelium") marketed as "mushrooms" and imported powdered extracts riddled with starches and lead.

If you are buying other Australia made mushroom powder, chances are you are buying brown rice.

Still up to this day we are one of the very few in the market offering real mushrooms (fruiting body) grown by ourselves. No rice in them.

Best value - Get the most for your money

Being farmers, food manufacturers and online retailers ourselves allow us to grow our own mushrooms, make our own liquid extracts and fulfil our orders.

No middleman, no outsourcing, geographically consolidated operations and only one owner/partner allow us to provide quality products at affordable prices.

We have had since 2019 to streamline our operations and improve process efficiencies so we can deliver the best quality product at the best price to our customers.

You will not find similar product for better value. For example:

100ml bottle $0.39 per day

50ml bottle $0.29 per day

120 capsules $0.75 per day

60 capsules $0.92 per day

Unmatched levels of fungal beta-glucans

Unmatched levels of fungal beta-glucans in our real mushroom powders (rice based products don't get even close). Lion's Mane 29.5g, Reishi 36.7g, Turkey Tail 43.7g per 100g of powder.

Our tinctures are the only ones third party lab tested for bio-active nutrients (fungal beta-glucans), enabling you to calculate how much you are paying per gram of bio-available active nutrients (what really matters for tinctures) and objectively compare against others, dispersing all marketing BS plaguing the mushroom market.

Third Party test for fungal beta-glucans is affordable and available in Australia. Tincture / powder manufacturers hide their third party fungal beta-glucan test results to prevent objective comparison.

Legitimate food manufacturer

Food manufacturer legitimately registered in Victoria following food manufacturing practices, processes and regulations. Possibly one of the very few in the market. Product safety is at the core of our business.

Don't take this for granted - we have seen quite a few videos floating around showing tinctures being made and mushrooms being dried in spaces that cannot possibly be legally compliant / safe commercial food manufacturing spaces.

Transparency

Mycelium products on their own and fair pricing for it

Most mushroom powders in the market claim to be a mix of mycelium and real mushroom fruiting body or "mushroom including the mycelium" when, in fact, they are only myceliated brown rice (mostly rice).

Just look at their fungal beta glucan contents around 10% and there will be no doubt about it. Real mushrooms should be on the 30%-40% mark.

For customers who want the mycelium, we sell them by itself at a fraction of the price found elsewhere as it is significantly easier to grow and we grow it ourselves (no middle man).

Sustainable packaging

Recyclable/compostable minimal packaging. Pioneers using our signature amber glass with metal lid setting up the standard for mushroom products in the market

Third party Laboratory tested

Unbiased Third Party Laboratory tested products for an extensive list of contaminants and fungal beta-glucans for quality assurance

You will not find products more tested than ours - our results can be found under "Help" > "Lab Results" menu

If you don't want to buy our products, that's ok but, for your own safety, make sure you see the third party lab results for:

- Fungal beta-glucans (bio-active coumpound)

- Heavy metals, particularly lead (environment / substrate contaminant)

- Chemical residue (chemical contaminants due to non-organic farming practices)

- Micro-biological contamination (like Salmonella sp, Bacilus cereus, e-coli and coliforms) common in non compliant food manufacturing spaces.

Look for the reports - many manufacturers claim they have third party tested their products but the results are nowhere to be found in their website.

Diversity of products

Specialised in mushrooms with the biggest variety in the market - you are sure to find what you want and we don't have an agenda to push any particular products - the choice is yours.

We don't pick the easiest product to make or the most profitable and bad mouth other products. Simple - we have it all and give you the information to help you choose which one works best for you.

Experience & Professionalism

Since 2019 growing functional mushrooms and manufacturing mushroom based products (powders / liquid extracts/teas) delivering expertise, efficiency, reliability, choice, respect to customers, value and quality to our retail and wholesale customers.

TOP 5 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How much should I have and how often?

Before we talk about how much you should have, it is important you understand we sell food and not standardised medicinal products.

What is the difference? At a high level, medicinal products have been not only researched for potential benefits - they have been clinically tested in multiple people in different conditions at different dosages to monitor for side effects and health outcomes.

At the end of multiple trials, the manufacturer is able to confidently state: "If you have, let’s say, 1ml of a product every day for one month, you will have achieved a specific outcome (for example, got rid of an infection) and possible side effects are [--list of side effects---]".

That’s not how food works - how many oranges do you need to have to help with a flu? How many cups of chamomile tea do you need to drink to put you to sleep? 

Ultimately, nobody can tell you categorically how much mushrooms (powders or liquids) you should have to achieve an outcome.

Though there is plenty of research suggesting potential benefits, there are no clinical trials establishing dosage x outcome.

Any manufacturer saying “1ml is enough”, for example, is just doing marketing, unless they can produce a report of clinical trials performed using their product.

How did we come up with our recommended serving suggestions? Based on how much we usually have and customer feedback that we circle back to other customers.

LIQUIDS - Start using approx. 1ml once a day up to 4x a day

POWDERS - Around 1 tsp daily 

CAPSULES - Around 1 capsules daily for Lion's Mane, 2 daily for Reishi / Turkey Tail

How much fruiting body do you use to make your tinctures?

Before we go through this, you must read our blog "Why Beta glucans matter" to have a better understanding of how to assess quality of mushroom tinctures.

When it comes to extracts, you need to focus on how much nutrients were extracted and became bio available based on tests performed by unbiased third party labs. That's the only way you can assess the quality of extracts as manufacturers can lie about using real mushrooms, using a lot of mushrooms or having good extraction methods. Unbiased third party lab reports don't lie. You will realise very quickly we are the only ones publishing the concentration of active nutrients in our tinctures (fungal beta-glucans). Other manufacturers want to keep it hiden so you cannot have an objective means of quality comparison.

After the glorification of rice to mushroom, the newest marketing stunt we are seeing around is the downplaying of the importance of fungal beta-glucan concentration in a mushroom based product.

Regardless if you want the benefits associated with fungal beta-glucans, they are the only affordable commercially available test offered by third party labs that can work as quality indicator of mushroom based products, ultimately enabling customers to compare quality and value across different products. 

LION'S MANE

- 2000 mg of bio-available fungal beta-glucans per 100ml of extract (tested by third party labs). The highest seen in similar products in the market.
- Approx. $0.02 per mg of bio available 3rd party lab tested active compounds (fungal beta-glucans) when purchasing a 100ml bottle for $39.9. The best value for similar products you can find in the market.
- This is achieved by processing the equivalent of 321 mg of mushroom fruiting body per ml of final tincture.

REISHI

- 1400 mg of bio-available fungal beta-glucans per 100ml of extract (tested by third party labs). The highest seen in similar products in the market.
-  Approx. $0.03 per mg of bio available 3rd party lab tested active compounds (fungal beta-glucans) when purchasing a 100ml bottle for $39.9. The best value for similar products you can find in the market.
- This is achieved by processing the equivalent of 83.8 mg of mushroom fruiting body per ml of final tincture

TURKEY TAIL

- 2000 mg of bio-available fungal beta-glucans per 100ml of extract (tested by third party labs). The highest seen in similar products in the market.

- Approx. $0.02 per mg of bio available 3rd party lab tested active compounds (fungal beta-glucans) when purchasing a 100ml bottle for $39.9. The best value for similar products you can find in the market.

- This is achieved by processing the equivalent of 79.4 mg of mushroom fruiting body per ml of final tincture

How do I use your products?

We would recommend you check the our blog "How to use our Supplements"

Which product is strongest? Powder, Capsules or Liquids?

There is no black and white answer to this question...

Powders have all the compounds a mushroom can offer you but we don't know exactly how much your body will be able to pull out of them by its own means.

The same goes to capsules as they are just a convenient way to use the powders.

Liquid Extracts, on the other hand, have lower concentration of nutrients when compared to powders, but they are 100% available to your body.  

Our customers report satisfaction using either so, it seems the most important thing is how you are planning to embed mushrooms in your daily routine. 

 

Why you don't have mycelium available for all mushrooms?

What is called "mycelium" in the market is brown rice colonised by mushroom culture. Like a tempeh, but using mushroom culture instead of the tempeh culture and rice instead of soy beans. It is mostly rice. Not mushrooms at all and very low fungal mass.

The alcohol extract of myceliated grains is very weak (their colour is almost clear when compared to the alcohol extract of real mushrooms) and the water extract has a lot starches (you can see all the foam forming as you cook them). 

So, we don't think this is a worthwhile product to be offered to our customers particularly when independent scientific evidence about how myceliated rice can be of any benefit is very limited. 

The only exception is our "lion's mane fruiting body & mycelium dual extract" that combines lion's mane mycelium alcohol extract (only alcohol extract, no starchy water extract used) with our lion's mane fruiting body dual extract.

That combination yielded a liquid extract with the highest concentration of beta glucans amongst our products, a unique / pioneer mycelium based starch free product.

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