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Most of the ingredients on this site earn their “coffee substitute” label from a root or a grain — chicory, dandelion, barley. Okra seed coffee earns it from a vegetable pod’s leftover seeds, and it comes with something rarer than most of this cluster: a su...
A reader emailed after her psychiatrist mentioned, almost as an aside, that her new prescription might make her “feel her coffee more than usual.” She asked ...
Most advice about quitting caffeine assumes a life where you control your own bedtime. Airline pilots don’t have that life. You have a federal rule that hand...
“Caffeine-free” and “gluten-free” get treated like the same kind of claim in this aisle, and they aren’t. We’ve already checked this shelf for FODMAPs; this ...
I have reviewed a lot of herbal coffees. Most of them disappoint in the same way: they’re reasonable herbal drinks, but they taste nothing like coffee, and m...
Ryze is currently the best-selling direct-to-consumer mushroom coffee in the US. It’s worth evaluating on its own terms rather than on the marketing-adjacent...
We tested MUD\WTR Rise against three other mushroom coffees (Ryze, Four Sigmatic, Om) in a blind taste panel. MUD\WTR won on taste by a clear margin. It was ...
Most of us end up on a coffee-alternatives search because something changed: a bad night of sleep, a new medication, a pregnancy, a health scare, or just the creeping sense that the fourth cup isn't doing what the first one used to. The web has plenty of listicles selling the alternatives — far fewer that help you understand them.
We write for the reader in the middle of it: tired, curious, a little skeptical, looking for someone who's actually tried the thing and can say whether it lives up to the claims. We include the products we think are worth trying, we disclose the ones we earn a commission on, and we never rank something first because of a payout.
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