Coffee

Traditional Uses & Why Herbalists Value It

Coffee's long beverage tradition centers on alertness, sociability and its complex roasted taste. Brewing extracts caffeine and flavor compounds from the ground seed. This makes coffee a natural flavor base for mushroom-coffee mixtures.

What Modern Research Has Found

Caffeine research supports effects on alertness. Large observational studies of coffee consumption have also reported associations with lower risks of several health outcomes, but associations alone cannot show cause and effect. Serving size and brewing method affect caffeine and other constituents.

Plant Part, Preparation & Natural Constituents

Caffeine and roasting-derived aroma compounds are prominent; serving size changes caffeine exposure.

Coffee in Formulae

Lion's Mane & Chaga Mushroom Coffee uses coffee as the flavorful, caffeinated beverage base for its mushroom ingredients.

Products Containing This Ingredient

• Lion's Mane + Chaga Mushroom Coffee 12 oz

Sources & Further Reading

• Kew Coffea genus >
• Coffee health outcomes umbrella review >