Best Mushroom Coffee (2025) If You’re Adaptogen Curious

For all of the instant coffees with mushroom supplements, I judged based on flavor, but also focused more on mouthfeel as instant coffee can be all over the map when it comes to how rich (or not) it feels on the palate. I prepared each cup per the package instructions and again used 200ºF water. Though only a handful of instant coffee brands suggested using a milk frother, I used this method as my default for stirring all the instant coffees to provide an even playing field.

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

Other ground mushroom coffees we tested:

Artizan Coffee Organic Shroom Coffee Fusion

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 ounces 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.

Four Sigmatic Focus Organic Coffee

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.

Laird Superfood Adaptogenic Coffee Functional Mushroom Perform

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 tastebuds. It brews up a solid, 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.

La Republica Superfoods Ground Mushroom Coffee

As the most expensive ground coffee we tried, it also packed some of the most mushrooms into the mix. So if you’re looking to diversify your fungi, it’s got that going for it. But it also has flavor going for it as well, with bold, nuttiness along with chocolate and perhaps some tobacco. Any earthiness felt like it was 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 and price point of Shroomi.

VitaCup Focus Coffee

VitaCup’s packaging looked the most like something you might buy at a GNC. I’m not judging these based on their packaging, but it was indicative of what to expect here compared to some of the other carefully crafted coffees above. VitaCup offered a roasted flavor, but perhaps a bit too roasted (OK, a little burnt). Frankly, it was most reminiscent of those big-name supermarket coffees (the kind with commercials with catchy jingles). But like those supermarket brands, you can find VitaCup products at places like Target and Walmart, so if you’re not doing all your shopping on Amazon, it’s an easy enough product to pick up on your usual grocery shopping run.

Other instant mushroom coffee brands we tested:

La Republica Superfoods Instant Mushroom Coffee

Like its ground coffee, La Republica Superfoods heaps a full slate of 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.

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 mix contains both powdered oat and coconut milks, and offers a smooth and satisfying scoop-and-stir beverage made all the more luxe by its use of a milk frother to mix. 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.

Everyday Dose Coffee+

The prismic, reflective packaging of this brand might make you think of the illicit mushrooms we mentioned earlier, 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

While there are mushroom coffee K-Cups out there, IQJOE seems to be attracting the same market for simple, single-serving, flavored coffee products. The sampler pack of IQJOE I purchased also included options like “Caffè Mocha,” “Toasted Hazelnut,” and “Vanilla Spice.” I stuck with the Original Black for apples-to-apples comparison sake, and it reminded me mostly of what I would call “waiting room coffee” — something you would drink out of necessity, but not the best cup of joe in your life. While the packaging does not declare any sweeteners in the ingredient list other than “natural flavors,” my cups were just a little too artificial-tasting and quite sweet. This brand also promotes its inclusion of Magtein magnesium l-threonate, another non-fungus supplement aimed at brain health.

Max Fit Wellness Ten Mushroom Coffee

Ten mushrooms! Can you believe it? You will when you taste this coffee which very much has an overpowering funk of mushrooms. It could be, for the right consumer, tasty enough while also hammering home the point that “hey, there are mushrooms in this coffee.” But if you’re looking for something that tastes like coffee, this wouldn’t be it. It froths well on its own and is quite affordable, but it will be too fungal forward for most I think.

Ryze Mushroom Coffee

If the ten mushrooms above feels like overkill, how does six sound? Ryze plants itself firmly in the middle of “mushroom” and “coffee” with its both funky and roasty flavor, but not too far into either territory (and for the purposes of this test, it didn’t taste enough like coffee). It also contains coconut milk in the mix, so that note comes through even if you don’t like creamer in your coffee. But again, I’m fully willing to admit there are people who would want to taste the mushrooms they’re consuming, and Ryze would be a good middle-of-the-road option for that.

VitaCup Mushroom Focus Instant Coffee

As with its ground coffee cousin, VitaCup once again delivers a big brand-name-style coffee in its sachets of instant coffee, which were a little difficult to open at first. It has an earthy nose, but the taste is slightly sweet if a bit flat coffee flavor with notes of peanut butter and caramel.

Other mushroom coffee alternatives we tested:

MudWtr

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.