Forest Finds Mushroom Tincture: How it's made

Our mission at Forest Finds is to offer a wide variety of mushroom products, deriving essential compounds from these incredible ingredients to provide health and cognitive benefits.

These mushroom compounds are then condensed into powders, gummies and tinctures, making it easy to include these beneficial ingredients in our everyday routines.

Our Forest Finds NZ Lion's Mane Tincture is a particularly special product, derived from New Zealand Lion’s mane mushrooms (Hericium Novae Zealandiae)

The Extraction Process.

To begin producing our mushroom tincture, the incredible team at Mushroom harvest the fruited mushrooms and add them to a sealed alcohol solution. Over the following weeks, the concentration may be adjusted and complementary solutions added to extract the targeted compounds.

Once the compounds have been separated in solution, the mixture is siphoned through several cycles of straining, followed by distillation. Finally, the desired chemical components are recombined to produce our final tincture.

The benefits of NZ Lions Mane

Our Lion’s mane tincture contains heightened polysaccharides, particularly beta-glucans, that promote neural growth and health. As a result, these compounds have been linked to relieving anxiety, depression, and other mental disorders, in addition to improving sleep and overall cognitive function [1]. Lion’s mane is also concentrated in erinacines and hericenones, further stimulating neural synthesis [2].

Polyphenols and other antioxidants in the tincture support heart health and blood circulation, as well as maintaining healthy levels of cholesterol [3,4]. Recent studies have linked lion’s mane extract to inhibiting metastasis of cancer cells [5], although the compounds responsible for this have yet to be definitively determined; nevertheless, this is quite a comprehensive medicinal profile from a single extract.

Our tincture makes it easy to add these specialised health-enhancing compounds to your daily routine. As you have learned, many of our adaptogenic mushrooms share essential core health benefits but vary widely in their targeted medicinal effects.

To maximise the health benefits of the tincture, we recommend adding a few drops to your tongue three to five times a day. We hope you share our passion for the transformative health properties of our mushrooms and now have some insight to elevate your daily routine towards greater vitality and tranquillity.

References

1. Friedman, Mendel. “Mushroom Polysaccharides: Chemistry and Antiobesity, Antidiabetes, Anticancer, and Antibiotic Properties in Cells, Rodents, and Humans.” Foods, vol. 5, no. 4, Nov. 2016, p. 80. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.3390/foods5040080.
2. Lai, Puei-Lene, et al. “Neurotrophic Properties of the Lion’s Mane Medicinal Mushroom, Hericium Erinaceus (Higher Basidiomycetes) from Malaysia.” International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms, vol. 15, no. 6, 2013, pp. 539–54. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v15.i6.30.
3. Kim, Seonghun. “Antioxidant Compounds for the Inhibition of Enzymatic Browning by Polyphenol Oxidases in the Fruiting Body Extract of the Edible Mushroom Hericium Erinaceus.” Foods, vol. 9, no. 7, July 2020, p. 951. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.3390/foods9070951.
4. Tachabenjarong, Nattapat, et al. “Bioactive Compounds and Antioxidant Activity of Lion’s Mane Mushroom (Hericium Erinaceus) from Different Growth Periods.” E3S Web of Conferences, vol. 355, 2022, p. 02016. www.e3s-conferences.org, https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202235502016.
5. Kim, Sung Phil, et al. “Hericium Erinaceus (Lion’s Mane) Mushroom Extracts Inhibit Metastasis of Cancer Cells to the Lung in CT-26 Colon Cancer-Tansplanted Mice.” Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, vol. 61, no. 20, May 2013, pp. 4898–904. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1021/jf400916c.