Comment · Thu, October 21, 2021 · ND Owner
Reddit AMA | In-House Lab Edition
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NootropicsDepotGuru · 77 points
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We are very excited to announce that Nootropics Depot will be conducting its first-ever Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything), which is a semi-live Q&A session, about our In-House Analytical Laboratory and we would love for you to join us! See below for full details and get your question(s) ready. We hope to see you there!
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Dear-Mission-8143 · 1 points
Where do you source/produce all of your fungi?
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
We have farms that we work with that grow all our mushrooms. Not one farm is good at all mushrooms, so we have different farms for the various ones. The farm that grows the best cordyceps is not the one that makes the best reishi or lion's mane. Most of these farms are in China, as that is where the bulk of the infrastructure is for growing and extracting mushroom products. They've been doing it for thousands of years. It's becoming more popular here, but the amount of experience in China dwarfs anywhere else in regard to mushroom extracts. China produces between 90% and 95% of all mushroom extracts in the world. The brands on Amazon claiming to be US-grown are just lying, or they are selling ground up rice with mycelium instead of actual mushroom fruiting bodies. If you see a product anywhere near our price per gram, it was grown in China. There's just no way to make the extracts for anywhere near the same cost here in the US. Almost all the US-grown mushrooms are sold fresh for culinary use. They don't make extracts or supplements from them. The infrastructure to process the raw mushrooms into powdered extracts doesn't exist here in the US, either. That's why you see mostly ground up myceliated rice instead of real mushroom fruiting bodies.