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273 products · 178 brands · read August 2026

5 things to check on your Lion’s Mane.

We read the label of every Lion’s Mane we could find. Most jars miss at least one of these five. Check yours in two minutes.

73%add something that is not mushroom
8 of 178brands show a lab report
1 of 178publishes a DNA report

Start the check

Two glass dishes on a lab bench: a tan mushroom extract powder on the left, a pale milled powder on the right — Mushroom extract, or grain

Check 1 of 5

Is it the mushroom itself?

Look for the words “fruiting body” on your label. Some products are the mushroom itself. Others are mycelium grown on grain, with the grain still in the powder.

Fingers pulling a capsule apart over a saucer, brown powder spilling out — Inside a capsule

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What else is in the capsule?

Read the ingredient list. Count everything that is not mushroom: rice flour, magnesium stearate, a “proprietary blend”.

73%of the products we read list an ingredient that is not mushroom

A gloved hand holding a test tube of amber liquid up to the light — The measurement

Check 3 of 5

Can you find the beta-glucan number?

It should be a percentage of beta-glucans, measured by a named lab. “Polysaccharides” is a wider number that also counts starch.

4 of 178brands publish a lab result proving 30% or more

A laboratory report on a clipboard with a pen, on a lab bench — The report

Check 4 of 5

Is there a lab report you can open?

Look for a PDF with the lab’s name, a date and a result. A “lab tested” badge is not a report.

8 of 178brands show a lab report you can open

A gloved hand with a pipette above a rack of small tubes — The DNA test

Check 5 of 5

Is the species proven by DNA?

A DNA report names the species in the jar. A chemical test cannot do that.

1 of 178brands publishes a DNA report

A hand picking up the Solve Labs bottle, next to a plain jar with a blank label

Your result

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Answer the five checks above to see how your jar does.

Here is one that passes all five.

100% fruiting body, grown on wood
One ingredient, in a plant-based shell
31.8% beta-glucans, measured by ALS
Three lab reports you can open
Species confirmed by DNA: 99.2% match

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The paperwork

Don’t take our word for it. Take the lab’s.

PDFBeta-glucansALS · 31.8% measured PDFDNA reportInventUR, University of Rzeszów · 99.2% match · July 2024 PDFSafety panelGBA Polska · heavy metals, microbiology · March 2025 PDFThe Lion’s Mane Label AuditThe full report: what we read, how we counted, and a score sheet · 6 pages

How we counted: 273 public Lion’s Mane listings from 178 brands, read on 15 and 16 August 2026. A lab report had to be a document we could open; badges and photographs did not count. This is a count of what brands publish. We did not test other brands’ products, and no brand is named. Our own results relate to the samples tested.

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