Product Code(SKU): S01A1SI2EE
Product Category: Beauty
Product Category: Health and Beauty
Product weight: 0.50 Pounds
Brand: Real Mushrooms
Real Mushrooms - Chaga Extract
At Real Mushrooms we pride ourselves on knowing that our mushroom products are of the highest quality. Our Extract is made from 100%, certified organic, naturally harvested chaga sclerotium. It is hot water extracted to pull out the important beta-glucans.
Chaga is a sclerotia. Not a mushroom.
Technically, the part of the chaga species harvested in the wild is a highly concentrated mass of mycelium that protrudes from trees (primarily birch) infected with this fungus called Inonotus obliquus. The dark, hard and cracked exterior, which often appears like burnt charcoal, is called the sclerotia. The interior has a rusty yellow brown color. The actual chaga mushroom (fruiting body) is rarely seen and not used in supplements.
Guaranteed Potency - Scientifically Verified
We test specifically for beta-glucans as these are the most well researched, beneficial compounds in mushrooms. We also test for starch which is used to show that this product contains no fillers of any kind, Just 100% pure sclerotium. If other brands only list polysaccharide numbers, make sure to ask them for beta-glucan and starch numbers. Starch is a polysaccharide so polysaccharide numbers can be easily spike with grain or fillers. Beta-glucan and starch numbers show product quality as there is a vast difference between brands.
Natural Harvested Chaga vs Chaga Mycelium Grown on Grain
Beware: Many other products are made from Chaga mycelium grown on grain and do not use the Chaga sclerotium. In this case, grain ends up in the final product diluting the amount of mycelium present. The mycelium that is grown on grain also lacks many of the beneficial compounds (betulin, betulinic acid, initidiol) as these compounds are derived from Chaga s interaction with the tree it is growing on (like birch).
