Best Mushroom Coffee If You’re Adaptogen Curious (2026)

So, your influencer-obsessed coworker or trend-hopping friend has been raving about how they’ve switched to mushroom coffee. They likely mean one of two things: Either they’re drinking actual coffee enhanced with added mushroom supplements, or they have switched to a non-coffee beverage that still has general coffee vibes and is made from mushrooms. (And if they’re really going on and on about it, they might also be drinking too much coffee.)

“What’s wrong with plain old coffee,” you may be wondering. For some, it’s the potentially addicting nature of caffeine. For others, however, coffee is fine, but mushrooms may provide a bit more oompf behind the main reasons many of us drink it first thing in the morning to begin with: mental clarity and focus. Hence, health food and coffee companies have begun supplementing their coffee with extracts from fungi like Lion’s Mane and Cordyceps, lauded by many for having positive effects on brain function.

The best mushroom coffees

• The best instant mushroom coffee: Atlas+ Coffee Superblend
• The best mushroom coffee grounds: Shroomi
• Another great bag of mushroom coffee grounds: North Spore Mushroom Coffee
• The best mushroom coffee alternative: Rasa Original Adaptogen-Packed Herbal Coffee Alternative

If you’ve heard about mushroom coffee and wondered what all the hype was about—or if you get what all the hype is about but aren’t sure what mushroom coffee to start with—we’ve taste-tested and reviewed over twenty mushroom coffee and coffee alternative products so you know what you’re in for. Are we doctors or scientists? No. So what you won’t find here is a lengthy peer-reviewed analysis of exactly much extra focus you’ll derive from drinking cordyceps extract. But we are food and drink experts, so read on for the results if you’re wondering which mushroom coffees taste great and which reminded us a bit too much of the forest floor.

New in this update: We tried a dozen new products, including three new brands of mushroom coffee, one new mushroom hot cocoa alternative, as well as new products or reformulations of three brands we tested previously, including one that bumped itself off of the “do not recommend” list.

The best instant mushroom coffee: Atlas+ Coffee Superblend

With a reputation for bringing quality coffees from every part of the coffee-growing world to consumers, Atlas Coffee Club knows a thing or two about good morning beverages. With its first foray into supplemented instant coffee, the brand has gone beyond mushrooms to include prebiotics, probiotics, collagen, and vitamins. Atlas’s blend makes a creamy, more cocoa-like coffee beverage that’s both rich and flavorful and only packs about half the caffeine punch of a regular cup of coffee. The company notes that its coffee blend contains trace amounts of coconut, and I definitely got a bit of coconut on both the nose and the palate. So if you’re expecting straightforward coffee flavors, just know that this one’s a bit coconutty. But of all the “just add water” instants I tried, Atlas was the most satisfying straight from the pouch. If you prefer something even richer and even coconut-ier, Atlas also makes a creamy latte superblend with powdered coconut milk.

The best mushroom coffee grounds: Shroomi

Of every mushroom coffee brand I tried, Shroomi was most like a more premium ground coffee, from the taste and aroma all the way down to the brown paper pouch it comes in. I didn’t find any funkiness from the added mushrooms, of which there are a bunch. The Nicaragua Matagalpa Medium Roast was relatively bright and fruity. And Shroomi’s Guatemala Huehuetenango Dark Roast was much heavier on cacao notes. The company makes a Peruvian half-caffeinated roast and a light roast from Mexico as well, and between these options you can probably find a coffee in line with your own coffee tastes. All are USDA Certified Organic (including the mushrooms) and fair trade. Shroomi says it uses the fruiting body of the mushroom, the cap and stem you probably recognize as a mushroom, instead of mycelium, which is a root structure that gets harvested by some mushroom coffee brands at a much earlier stage in a mushroom’s development. The more mature fruiting body has been associated with additional anti-inflammatory and immune system benefits. It’s more expensive than some of the other coffees listed below, but I think it’s worth it because it’s simply a better cup of coffee, functional fungus-infused or not.

Another great bag of mushroom coffee grounds: North Spore Mushroom Coffee

For a company that seems to be first and foremost a mushroom company (as opposed to a supplement company or a beverage company), North Spore out of Maine produces a very easy-drinking cup of coffee. The flavors are much closer to what we would expect from a non-mushroomed up medium roast coffee—a nutty, slightly dark caramel taste. The only hint that this coffee does, in fact, have the five mushrooms indicated on the bag is a bit of an earthy note that lingers on the backend. The coffee itself is a Nicaraguan bean blend that brews up with a medium body. North Spore coffee has about 500 grams of mushroom extract per serving—an average amount of fruiting bodies per cup.

North Spore founder Matt Mcinnis, who has been growing mushrooms since 2014, seems clear-eyed about what mushroom coffee does and does not do, which we think of as a plus in any trendy wellness space. He wrote in 2025, “a lot of the mushroom products out there…are starting to drift into snake oil territory…dramatic promises, miracle cures, people sprinting through forests as if they’ve unlocked miracle powers after one cup, treating a mushroom coffee like it’s a sex drug.” And while Mcinnis does vouch for the benefits of mushroom fruiting bodies, his mushroom coffee is much more about creating a coffee that coffee drinkers might enjoy. North Spore doesn’t offer the same roast-level variety that Shroomi does, but it’s still a tasty choice.

They also offer mushroom grow kits for both lion’s mane and oyster mushrooms that are incredibly easy to use.

The best mushroom coffee alternative: Rasa Original Adaptogen-Packed Herbal Coffee Alternative

If part of your exploration away from coffee is fueled by a desire to lower your caffeine intake, Rasa offers its caffeine-free blend of plants and herbs like chicory, dandelion, burdock, date seed, and cinnamon, along with supplements like maca and ashwagandha. The taste is something between a coffee and an herbal tea. To be somewhat blunt about it: Rasa has notes of a milder Ricola cough drop. I like herbaceous drinks and cocktails and I enjoy licorice tea after dinner, so I enjoyed the flavor, but I also know something too herby can be polarizing. The instructions recommend a ten-minute brew in a French Press, and the resulting beverage definitely had the color and texture of coffee. The substitutability with coffee was further cemented with a splash of milk, which brought it close to a super rich spiced tea, but much mellower than, say, masala chai. Because it’s not trying too hard to taste like, as far as I can tell, anything familiar (other than the chicory hinting at coffee) I would argue that’s why it works.

How we chose the best mushroom coffee and mushroom coffee alternatives

As mentioned above, we’re not scientists or doctors. So these tests did not set out to prove the veracity of claims made by the producers of mushroom coffee and functional mushroom supplements. As the experts we spoke to pointed out, those tests are academic and ongoing. Our test focused on which brands of mushroom coffee tasted the most like regular coffee and, ideally, the least like mushrooms. Because if you’re a coffee drinker switching to something with adaptogens, you probably want a drink that won’t totally alter your ability to enjoy your morning cup.

For the brands that add mushroom supplements to ground coffee beans (in most cases, if you want to make mushroom coffee using whole beans, you would need to buy and stir in your own separate mushroom supplements), I used a standard French press method and ratio of two tablespoons of coffee grounds per eight ounces of 200ºF water and steeped for five minutes. After pouring, I first took in the aroma and tasted the coffee black before adding a splash of milk, which is how I normally take my coffee. I judged on overall flavor, mouthfeel, and whether I could taste any funky mushroom notes that were off-putting or otherwise distracting from the usual coffee experience.

For all of the instant coffees with mushroom supplements, I judged based on coffee flavor, but focused more on mouthfeel, as instant coffee can be all over the map when it comes to how rich it feels on the palate. I prepared each cup per the package instructions and again used 200ºF water. Though not all the instant coffee brands suggested using a milk frother, I used one across the board to provide an even playing field.

Finally, for the mushroom coffee alternatives, I prepared them per the package instructions.

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Other mushroom coffees we tested and liked

Bulletproof The High Achiever Coffee

As I discussed in my reviews of protein coffee, Bulletproof has been adding all kinds of stuff to their cups since the keto “butter coffee” days. The brand’s foray into mushroom coffee is decidedly unadulterated, with strong, smooth coffee that doesn’t have much, if any, mushroom undertones to speak of. However, while it delivers a fulsome coffee experience (be warned, it has two times the caffeine of most cups), it comes up a bit short in the mushroom department with only 250mg of one fungi, Lion’s Mane, in each serving. That, plus the lack of other roasts and options still puts Shroomi over the top. The High Achiever does come ready for cold brew, and in K-cup pods though, making it a convenient swap for additional sets of coffee lovers.

Considering that Four Sigmatic is really a mushroom supplement company first—they have mushroom capsules, protein powders, and a line of teas—the ground coffee delivers in a surprisingly nice way. It has a prominent roasted flavor with notes of dark chocolate and cherry and reminded me of standard Starbucks or Peet’s black coffee most. Though I usually take my coffee with a splash of milk, their dark roast Focus blend made from organic Honduran-grown Arabica beans, was delicious enough for me to forgo the creamer altogether. Four Sigmatic also makes a dedicated cold brew version of its Focus coffee, which was equally flavorful, though it required a higher concentration of coffee than the package suggested to meet my particular strength preference. Additionally, the brand sells mushroom-enhanced instant coffee, instant lattes, and K-Cup style pods. It’s also one of the more economical options, another plus that made it a close second pick for mushroom coffee grounds.

From the plant-based company started by surfer Laird Hamilton and volleyball player Gabby Reece, Laird’s “Perform” coffee features four mushrooms in its blend along with Peruvian Arabica beans. The coffee had a round, toasted flavor with a faint fungi note that was mostly on the nose, as opposed to the palate. It brews up a right-down-the-middle cup of coffee with a little bit of mushroom funk that, if you’re looking to taste what you paid for, might be more appealing to you. Its mushroom-enhanced coffees are also available in dark roast, whole bean, decaf, and a K-cup format.

La Republica packed a huge number of mushrooms into the mix. So if you’re looking to diversify your fungi, it’s got that going for it. But it bold flavor as well—nuttiness, along with chocolate and perhaps some tobacco. Any earthiness seemed to come from the actual coffee, and not the mushrooms. La Republica also makes instant coffee, hot cocoa, matcha, and other tea blends, and while we didn’t try everything in their store, we were intrigued by their offering of a Nicaraguan espresso roast and a Peruvian dark roast, as well as Peruvian decaf. As for the original, we felt it was a good coffee but preferred the taste of Shroomi.

Like its ground coffee, La Republica Superfoods heaps a full slate of seven mushrooms into this instant powder made from Columbian Arabica beans. The coffee mixes well and is pretty mellow with slightly more funk than the brewed grounds version, but a flatter flavor and texture overall (a burden a lot of instant coffees carry). Still, the notes of prune and toasted almond came through, along with a woodier flavor. It only takes a teaspoon of powder to produce an eight-ounce cup, so while this product is sold in small jars, it’s still a decent per-serving buy.

Superitalia Superfood Cappuccino Sustained Energy Boost

Contra most coffee on the market that’s made with all arabica beans, this powdered cappuccino from Superitalia offers a Robusta blend coffee with both Lion’s Mane mushrooms and oat extract as a means of promoting sustained energy. We don’t know if it definitively does that, but it does froth up into a palatable instant cappuccino thanks to a coconut oil and non-dairy creamer base that gives it extra body and flavor. It can be served hot or cold (the latter of which should be shaken, not stirred, whether or not you’re feeling like James Bond). However, the small can size of just 11 servings and limited mushroom-forward supplement ingredient list kept it from ousting Atlas as the top of instant coffee.

Clevr Coffee SuperLatte

While you might generally associate instant lattes with those red and white tins of “international” coffee that everyone thought were so fancy in the 1980s, we’re living in a more sophisticated age and Clevr proves it. Their vegan latte base contains both powdered oat and coconut milks, and offers a smooth and satisfying scoop-and-stir beverage. It’s definitely heavier on the coconut flavor and not as rich as I like typical lattes to be, but on the whole it’s surprisingly not sweet and very sippable.

If you’re going for a mushroom-enhanced drink with actual coffee grounds, it’s a good idea to source them from a company that actually roasts coffee. Artizan Coffee out of Florida, has dozens of coffee products and different roasts, including coffee “Fusions” with ingredients like manuka honey, hemp, and yes, mushrooms. The Organic Shroom Coffee Fusion was relatively mild with a faint earthy taste on the backend. I wanted this roast to pack more punch, but if you’re not a fan of bolder, dark roast coffee, it does the job. The Shroom coffee comes pre-ground for drip brewing or pour-over, and is also one of the most economical, as it can be purchased in a variety of sizes, from four ounce packages up to five-pound bags, the latter of which only costs 97¢ per ounce. And if you’re looking for more convenience, Artizan also makes mushroom coffee capsules for a Nespresso machine.

The prismatic, reflective packaging of this brand might make you think of more illicit mushrooms, but Everyday Dose’s enhanced coffee was, by contrast, mellow in its present and relatively pleasant roastiness with notes of raisin and brown sugar. Despite suggesting it be mixed with a milk frother, this one didn’t offer much froth on its own, but foamed up with the help of some milk.

IQJOE Instant Mushroom Coffee Original Black

My previous taste test of IQJOE landed it in the “don’t recommend” category, however when I found out the brand’s instant coffees were getting reformulated, I decided to give them a second taste. And it seems that reworking paid off. Each of the four varieties — Original Black, Mocha, Hazelnut, and Vanilla Spice — showed improved flavor, reduced artificial sweetness, and only a slight mushroom-y funk. While I would say the aroma of these were stronger than the actual flavor, they were significant improvements and handy for anyone who likes to slip an instant coffee sachet in their bag, making this a better choice for convenience-minded drinkers. FYI, per its name, IQJOE also promotes its inclusion of Magtein magnesium l-threonate, another non-fungus supplement aimed at brain health.

Other mushroom coffee alternatives we liked

Lococo Premium Cocoa

If you’re looking for a grown-up version of that instant cocoa from your childhood, Lococo delivers on an elevated powdered hot chocolate experience, right down to mini bits of marshmallow. The Original Spice has quite a bit of initial kick, while the Lux Vanilla drinks smoother, more like a traditional hot cocoa. Thanks to its use of coconut milk powder, Lococo is also dairy-free, gluten-free, and plant-based with just five grams of sugar from coconut sugar (though it does use monk fruit sweetener as well). Oh, and did we mention it has mushrooms? At this point, it seems like a bonus. The only reason it doesn’t take the top spot for alternatives is our hesitancy to assume most adults want a luxurious cup of cocoa every morning. Then again, this cocoa might change our mind.

Out of the gate, MudWtr isn’t trying to be coffee. Its Original flavor is a masala chai with black tea, cinnamon, turmeric, and cacao (along with a dash of Himalayan salt for good measure). And all of those flavors mentioned above are present in the cup (though I was expecting a little more cacao as it’s the first item listed under the chai). However, prepared as the packaging directs with a tablespoon of your creamer of choice and 12 ounces of water topped with frothed milk, it was a lot of drink to manage, even in my largest coffee mugs. And that above-average amount of water also thinned out the texture of the drink. But I thought the strength and depth of flavor of a chai latte is a relatively satiating replacement for coffee.

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Additional testing by Noah Kaufman

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