F.A.Q

KÄÄPÄ Mushrooms are cultivated in Finland, where the clean air, water and strict organic growing standards ensure premium quality. Unlike many mushroom products sourced from China, KÄÄPÄ mushrooms undergo rigorous quality control and full traceability to ensure purity and potency.

At KÄÄPÄ Mushrooms, we’re proud to be based in Finland, but we use English to serve our growing global community. Using one common language helps us provide consistent information and support to all our customers, from Helsinki to New York.

KÄÄPÄ Mushrooms stands out due to its commitment to purity, potency, and transparency. Unlike many mushroom products sourced from China, KÄÄPÄ mushrooms are cultivated in Finland, where the pristine air, water, and soil provide the perfect conditions for high-quality mushrooms. Each batch undergoes third-party testing, ensuring purity, safety, and a verified concentration of active compounds.

Yes, some mushrooms require alcohol extraction and there is residual alcohol in these tinctures. For those mushrooms that do not require alcohol extraction, ethanol is added in the tincture for preservation purposes. All the finished products contain 20% alcohol. With alcohol content more than 20%, the Compounds of Interest and the product quality stays intact for up to 3 years.

The choice comes down to personal preference.

Tinctures
offer the fastest absorption as they are taken sublingually (under the tongue) or in drinks, allowing the body to absorb active compounds more quickly.

Powders can be easily mixed into drinks smoothies, coffee, or food.

Elixirs
offer an alcohol free experience where you can add it to drinks, smoothies, cereals and it can be taken sublingually for faster absorption.There’s no exact science on which is “better” as individual digestion and metabolism vary, but all forms deliver the key active compounds needed for results—it’s simply a matter of what fits best into your routine.

Whether grown outdoors in the pure Finnish air on birch trees or on PEFC/FCA certified Finnish birch as our growing substrate, there is no purer method for growing mushrooms. We also give customer the ability to scan the QR code and access the heavy metal and microbial 3rd party test results.

We recommend 1-3 droppers / pipettes, 1-3 times per day. You may choose to take more or less, or as needed but stay within the recommended daily dose.

Always start slow, and aim for the minimum effective dose.

You can combine our tinctures. You can take any of the tinctures any time of the day, but we prefer reishi in the evening. Read more on how to combine our tinctures.

You can drop the tincture straight under your tongue, which will maximise the absorption into the bloodstream. Or if preferred, you can put the tincture in your morning coffee or smoothie and similarly in your evening tea. We love reishi with hot chocolate in the evening.

The most optimal way to consume the extract is to consume the extract. Meaning, find a way to integrate these new habits into your daily life.

There is currently not enough research available to certainly say that mushroom supplements are safe for use by children. Therefore we don’t recommend our extracts to be consumed by children. Please consult your doctor or pediatrician for further info.

There is currently not enough research available to certainly say that mushroom supplements are safe for use by pregnant women. Therefore we don’t recommend our extracts to be consumed by pregnant or lactating women. Please consult your doctor for further info.

Yes, all of our tinctures are organic. The mushrooms are grown and produced in organic certified facilities. We also use organic alcohol, and distilled water.

No! These mushrooms are not drugs, and are 100% legal. They do not contain any psilocybin and will not make you hallucinate.

The shelf life of our products are between 1-3 years depending on the product. All of our products will have a specific expiration date on the packaging for your reference as well.

The shelf life is the same after opening when stored in cool and dry place and heat and direct sunlight are avoided.

Extracts used regularly can be stored at room temperature. Our products are bottled into Miron glass bottles, which filters out harmful rays while filtering in infrared, ultraviolet and violet lights, which prolongs the shelf life and efficacy of the product. Read more about the packaging.

Yes, batches go through lab testing for heavy metals and biological contamination to ensure product safety and food quality.

Chaga has a high observed oxalate content (~5-14g/100g) compared to other natural sources. For reference, spinach, rhubarb and other tough fibrous greens have 500mg-3g/100g oxalates. It’s all about the dose and form of Chaga consumed. Dosage is the difference between nutrition, medicine and poison. If we compare an average daily dose of spinach and chaga powder, we are comparing grams to milligrams. A serving of spinach could be20-100g, compared to a1gserving of Chaga extract. Our maximum daily dosage in our GRAS dossier for safety consumption of Chaga is1.31 grams. Comparing this to common foods consumed in everyday diet quickly yields a nullified argument for the safety of Chaga oxalates, given the much lower dose when consuming Chaga extract or any other medicinal extract for that matter.