Key takeaways
- We use fruiting bodies, and wild-harvested chaga, not grain-grown mycelium.
- This means clarity, no grain starch and simple transparency.
- Mycelium isn’t inherently bad; it’s a different material.
- Our choice is about what goes in, not a claim about effect.
Every Spore & Bloom tincture is made from fruiting bodies (and, for chaga, the wild-harvested conk). Here’s why.
What we mean
The fruiting body is the mushroom you can see. The alternative, mycelium, is often grown on grain and sold with the grain included. See Fruiting Body vs Mycelium.
Our reasons
- Clarity: when we say Lion’s Mane, we mean the Lion’s Mane mushroom.
- No grain: our tinctures contain no grain starch. See Mycelium on Grain Explained.
- Tradition: the fruiting body is the part traditionally eaten and prepared.
- Transparency: it’s simple to explain and easy to understand.
A fair word about mycelium
Mycelium isn’t inherently bad. It’s a genuine part of the fungus, and in some species it contains compounds found less in the fruiting body. Lion’s Mane erinacines are an example. We simply chose fruiting bodies, and we don’t claim our products contain what they don’t. See Erinacines Explained.
What it doesn’t mean
Using fruiting bodies is a choice about what goes into our tinctures. It isn’t a claim about what they will do.
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