Our Powder Process

We choose to honor what nature has shared with us and give a huge nod to the newest research on gut health by not super-processing and ultra-concentrating the mushroom out of our mushrooms. We activate the whole mushroom fruiting bodies along with fully colonized mycelium on digested grain with a short duration pressure steam to most effectively break down the polysaccharides into biologically active beta glucans while also preserving the other constituents as much as possible. We steam activate within 24-48 hours of fresh mushroom harvest, followed by dehydration. And, we only powder when we need product based on demand. 

Our process has been reviewed and approved by a Food Safety Authority. We monitor our dehydrator temperatures and test for Water Activity per USDA food safety, and test regularly to ensure our process meets food safety standards as well as supplement GMPs. That is the benefit of growing and processing our own; we are in control of all the steps. We work in small batches, in our own FDA registered commercial kitchen, right on the farm. We continually educate ourselves and draw upon decades of experience in R & D and manufacturing pharmaceuticals, cultivating mushrooms, and clinical herbal medicine, in developing our processes while minimizing our impact on the ecosystem and formulating for the optimal health benefits. You get ALL the benefits from the mushrooms and you can’t get fresher than that!