Sleep, calm and recovery, explained properly

Mushroom coffee is ordinary instant or ground coffee blended with powdered mushroom extracts such as lion’s mane, chaga, reishi or cordyceps.

Mushroom hot chocolate is cacao powder blended with a mushroom extract, usually reishi, lion’s mane or chaga, that you stir into warm

Tremella mushroom (Tremella fuciformis), also called snow fungus or silver ear, is a white, jelly-like edible mushroom used in Chinese sweet soups

Reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lingzhi, usually sold as Ganoderma lucidum) is a bitter, woody fungus taken as tea, powder, capsules or a hot

Checked October 2026: there’s no solid human evidence that reishi improves sleep. In rats, reishi extract lengthened sleep, and one human trial

Yes. When we checked hollandandbarrett.com on 1 November 2026, its reishi section listed 72 products.

Reishi tea is a bitter, woody drink made by simmering dried reishi mushroom slices in water for 1 to 2 hours, or

Ankhway Mushroom Gummies are raspberry gummies made with 10 mushrooms, including lion’s mane, cordyceps, reishi and chaga.

No mushroom treats anxiety or depression. Lion’s mane has the most human research: three small trials hint at lower anxiety, low mood

Yes. When we checked hollandandbarrett.com on 26 October 2026, its lion’s mane section listed 160 products.

Cordyceps is a fungus sold mainly as Cordyceps militaris or as CS-4, a lab-grown form of Cordyceps sinensis. Human evidence is small:

Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) is a slow-growing fungus that forms black, charcoal-like cankers on birch trees and is usually simmered into a tea.