All About Mushroom Coffee: Benefits + 6 Best Brands To Buy, According To Experts

Although I love a rich, bold, no-fuss cup of coffee, I was intrigued when I began seeing nutritionists and functional medicine doctors recommend mushroom coffee as a healthier alternative. Mushrooms have been a part of traditional medicinal practices1 for many years, and they come with some hefty health benefits (more on that below).

After testing what seems like every blend under the sun, I landed on the seven best mushroom coffee brands—and many come recommended by experts Ella Davar, R.D., CDN and Heather Moday, M.D.

Imagine your favorite chai latte...with the added benefit of medicinal mushrooms. That's exactly what you get with this delicious blend, which packs in organic chaga, reishi, lion's mane, and cordyceps. The founder of Mud/Wtr created this functional beverage to help reduce his coffee dependence while promoting calm and focus—so rather than coffee, it features organic black tea powder. For taste, there's also a spice blend of cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, cardamom, black pepper, nutmeg, and cloves. Davar is a fan of this brand in particular!

Forget your splash of oat milk, this creamer tastes better and does way more. Made of four simple ingredients: chaga mushrooms, cacao, cinnamon, and monk fruit, this powder turns your morning coffee into an adaptogenic latte chock full of superfoods. And the single serving pouches make it easy to bring to the office or add to a to-go coffee.

I love these little ready-to-make latte pods from Daily Harvest. This option has a mix of organic cacao, chaga mushrooms, reishi mushrooms, coconut, vanilla, and a touch of natural sweetness from maple syrup. Plus, their new latte packaging is now made from 100% home compostable and recyclable material, made from plant-based renewable fiber.

Four Sigmatic has a number of different mushroom coffee offerings (among other great products), but our personal pick is the ground coffee with lion's mane. Why? As Moday puts it: "I am a big fan of using lion's mane in particular, because of its far-reaching effect on the brain." The combo of organic, Fair Trade, single-origin Arabica coffee beans and lion's mane (plus chaga mushrooms) is meant to help support energy levels and alertness, without a caffeine crash.

This blend doesn’t stop at the usual mushroom coffee offering of lion’s main and cordyceps. It includes a blend of roots, herbs and berries to put a hunter gatherer to shame, from the ancient viking root rhodiola to the famously adaptogenic eleuthero herb and the himalayan herb shilajit. Chicory, cinnamon, and cacao top it all off for a drink that's equal parts flavorful and functional.

Using a patented blend of five adaptogenic ingredients—theanine, ashwagandha, lion's mane, cordyceps, and reishi—Taika aims to offer an easy-to-grab morning beverage with more benefits than traditional coffee. Plus, I can attest the canned coffee is pretty delicious, too.

Califia may be known for its wide variety of non dairy milk, but they also have a lovely selection of packaged coffee. I'm a fan of this mushroom cold brew coffee they added to the lineup this year, with cordyceps and lion's mane extract.

Let's back up for a second: Mushroom coffee is a mounting trend in the modern health food world—however, it certainly isn't a novel beverage. Mushrooms have been used in traditional medicinal practices and functional medicine approaches for centuries, says Ella Davar, R.D., CDN.

More recently, according to information from Four Sigmatic, mushrooms were used as a coffee substitute in Finland (where their founders are from), during World War II when coffee beans weren't available.