Mushroom coffee
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Mushroom and coffee. Not exactly bedfellows.
But that hasn’t stopped an entrepreneur from Finland claiming that their blend of ‘medicinal mushrooms’ – not the dodgy kind – and Arabica coffee is the ultimate health drink.
Despite our WTF reactions, Four Sigmatic are confident that the drink will catch on.
By combining coffee, and all it’s health boosting effects — boosting metabolism, possibly preventing and protecting from Parkinson’s disease, reducing cholesterol and much more — with matsutake mushrooms, the drink is supposed to be the ultimate fungus flavoured super-drink.
The company claim that this coffee-fusion is less acidic, meaning that people who regularly drink their coffee white can drink mushroom coffee black.
There are some things to understand about this strange blend, these are not regular garden-variety mushrooms. Instead, wild mushrooms are specially selected, dried and once ready are boiled and liquefied so as to retain all natural nutrients.
Once in a liquefied state, these matsutake mushrooms are combined with organically grown and freshly ground Arabica from Central America.
All that then needs to be done is for you to add hot water. So it’s instant coffee, but with a twist.
Most reviews are claiming that the taste is incredibly subtle, or that the mushroom taste is basically non-existent.
The company are offering a wide range of mushroom blends beyond their standard matsutake mix.
If it does indeed boost brain power like it claims to do, then we think that this might be worth a try, them only problem is that with a rise in the fad of ‘clean eating’ could we all be more susceptible to the lure of snake oil?
Four Sigmatic’s website claims that mushroom coffee can boost metabolism, immune system and even a caffeine boost without the ‘jitters’.
Maybe we’re being a little bit sceptical about it, but in this instance at least, we’ll stick to regular coffee.