Alice Mushrooms - Brainstorm Singles Mushroom Chocolate Brain Bite for Focus & Energy - July 3, 2026

Chocolate of The Day

Alice Mushrooms
Brainstorm Singles - Mushroom Chocolate Brain Bite for Focus & Energy
Good +
Weight: .25 oz. (7 g.) in one bite
Calories: 40 calories in 1 bite/small packet
Cost: $3.89 for 1 bite/small packet 
Purchased from: Xocolatl Garden, Carmel, CA

Welcome to Day #7 of Chocolate & Mushrooms Theme Week.

Today's Brainstorm Singles - Mushroom Chocolate(s) for Focus & Energy were distributed by Alice Mushrooms Inc. (Los Angeles (Venice), CA).

There was quite a contrast between aroma and flavor notes for this dark chocolate. The aroma was a very faint, barely detectable (chocolate) aroma. But the flavor notes were quite intense--dark chocolate with a relatively bitter, slightly moldy, earthiness--presumably from the mushrooms/mushroom extract(s); but I am not 100% sure about that.

Texture: smooth texture with a satisfying melt

The small, individually-wrapped chocolates made it easier to have one small "dose" at a time. I appreciated the melt; and that the amount of caffeine per serving (66 mg.) was included on the packaging.

This bar contained a mushroom blend: "...750 mg [8:1 Lion's Mane Extract (fruiting body), Organic 8:1 Cordyceps Extract (fruiting body), Guarana, Phosphatidylserine]"

"Other Ingredients": Organic Semi-Sweet 72% Dark Chocolate (Organic Unsweetened Chocolate, Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Cocoa Butter), Coconut Oil, Cocoa Butter Guarana"

Allergen-related information: None found on packaging. (Be aware if you are mushroom or mold sensitive, this may not be a chocolate for you. I experienced nasal congestion and sneezing after consuming this bite.)

Fruiting Bodies LLC - Reishi Dark Chocolate 70% (bar) - July 2, 2026

Chocolate of The Day

Fruiting Bodies LLC 
Good ++ 
Weight: 1.4 oz. (40 g.) in total bar
Calories: 240 calories in 1 bar

Cost: Missing information 

Purchased from: Oceana Market, Pacifica, CA 

Welcome to Day #6 of Chocolate & Mushrooms Theme Week.

Today's Reishi Dark Chocolate 70% Cacao (bar) was from Fruiting Bodies LLC (Muscatine, IA).

The company currently offers a line of three different mushroom chocolates (Cordyceps, Lion's Mane and Reishi), as well as mushroom tinctures and essences.

This dark chocolate bar was made using Golden Reishi (Ganaderma curtisii)--a bracket fungus, native to North America, found in hardwood forests in the Eastern U.S. and closely related to Asian Reishi mushrooms (e.g. Ganaderma lucidum).

Aroma and flavor notes included: pleasant dark chocolate, light brown or unrefined sugar, and very faint (barely detectable) mushroom.

Texture: relatively smooth texture; the reishi extract was completely incorporated into the chocolate.

I appreciated the balanced flavors and short list of organic ingredients, and the fact that they do third-party testing with their mushrooms/fungi.

Ingredients: "organic chocolate liquor, organic coconut palm sugar, organic cacao fat, organic reishi (Ganoderma curtisii) concentrate."

Allergen-related information: "Vegan" "No Refined Sugar, No Sugar Alcohols, No Dairy/Soy, No Lecithins, No Palm Oil, No Gluten"