LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR MUSHROOMS BELOW How is a whole food different to an extract? The benefits contained within these complex mushrooms goes beyond a single extracted compound (see beta-glucans below). Forest Super Food products will always be free of alcohol and isolated compounds. Is it just the beta-glucans % that matters? Recent studies have found that there is a lot more benefit to these mushrooms than just the beta-glucans. This is why it is best to always choose a full-spectrum, whole food mushroom product to ensure you get the full range of benefits (not just the beta-glucans). Does it matter where the mushrooms are grown? Mushrooms are nature’s sponges and will absorb any heavy metals and pollutants in the air or water. Thus it is super important to ensure the mushrooms you consume are grown in a pollution-free and heavy metal free environment using clean drinking water. Do our Turkey Tail and Reishi contain any fillers? No! It is the whole mushroom fruiting body + mycelium with traces of the growing medium (organic brown rice) which cannot be separated completely from the mycelium. The mycelium (the “roots” of the mushroom) provides a range of gut health benefits and active compounds not found in the fruiting body. The fermented rice is a powerful probiotic. Why is freeze drying better than other drying methods? All drying methods result in some nutrient loss. Studies done on foods that have been freeze dried demonstrate that this method results in very little nutrient loss. Freeze drying is almost equivalent (nutritionally) to consuming the mushroom fresh.