Chaga Extract

Dual extraction is a method to get as much as possible of a mushroom's compounds into the extract. It involves two steps: an alcohol extraction and a water extraction.

Mushrooms hold two main groups of compounds: triterpenoids and polysaccharides. Triterpenoids, such as the ganoderic acids in reishi or betulinic acid in chaga, dissolve in alcohol, so the mushrooms are soaked in alcohol (ethanol) for several weeks. Polysaccharides such as beta-glucans dissolve in water, so the mushrooms are also simmered in water for a few hours.

After both extractions the solutions are combined, filtered and evaporated into a powder that holds both the alcohol-soluble and the water-soluble compounds.

Growing mushrooms on wood instead of oats or another grain substrate makes a difference in what ends up in the extract and in how it is grown:

1. Natural habitat: many of these mushrooms, reishi and maitake among them, grow on hardwood in the wild. Wood replicates that environment, so the mushroom's profile of compounds stays closer to its wild counterpart.

2. Compounds: mushrooms grown on wood can hold more beta-glucans and triterpenes, because they break down the complex compounds in wood as they grow.

3. Sustainability: logs and wood chips can come from local tree thinning or sustainable forestry; grain substrates come from large-scale agriculture.

4. Fewer contaminants: wood sourced without chemicals leaves fewer residues in the mushroom than grain treated with pesticides.

Beta-glucans are a specific type of polysaccharide, the group of compounds these mushrooms are standardised on.

Many products show their "polysaccharides" content, but that says little on its own: a product can hold 30% polysaccharides of which only 5% are beta-glucans. What matters is the beta-glucan percentage itself, which is why we state it per mushroom.

Our extracts are made from the fruiting body and standardised on their beta-glucans, as the label states.

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