Mushroom coffees, chicory, herbal roasts, matcha, and everything people try when regular coffee stops working for them. We test every drink, read the studies, and won't tell you your favorite brand is best if it isn't.
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If you have gout, or a parent who does, someone has probably told you to cut back on coffee. I wanted to see whether that advice rests on anything. I read five papers: a large Harvard cohort, two pooled analyses, a genetics-based study, and a review. The su...
Most coffee alternatives try to taste like coffee. Cascara doesn’t try. It is the fruit that grows around the coffee bean, dried and steeped like tea, and it...
If you’ve been booked for an overnight sleep study, the prep sheet probably has a line that makes a daily coffee drinker wince: no caffeine after a certain t...
Café de olla means “pot coffee,” and the name tells you most of what you need. It is a drink built around a vessel and a slow simmer, with cinnamon and unref...
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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