TABLE. Analysis* of contents of five brands of mushroom gummies marketed as nootropics and listing Amanita muscaria or other mushrooms as ingredients — Charlottesville, Virginia, 2023.
Brand | Listed product ingredients | Identified compounds* |
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Diamond Shruumz Sour Peach Apple |
Mushroom nootropic,† caffeine, and lion’s mane, chagas, and reishi mushrooms |
Psilocin |
Diamond Shruumz Rainbow |
Mushroom nootropic,† caffeine, and lion’s mane, chagas, and reishi mushrooms |
Psilocin and caffeine |
Urb Magic Amanita Mushroom Watermelon |
Muscimol, ibotenic acid, muscarine, and A. muscaria extracts |
Psilocybin, psilocin, hordenine, and 2-phenethylamine |
Wonderland Legal Psychedelics Cherry Nirvana |
A. muscaria extract, blue lotus extract, and reishi, lion’s mane, and cordyceps mushrooms |
Psilocin, N,N-dimethyltryptamine, caffeine, and mitragynine |
Psilly’s Legal Psychedelic Mushrooms Fruit Punch |
Fly agaric (A. muscaria) extract and hemp-derived extract |
Ephedrine |
Tryp mushroom gummies | Lion’s mane, reishi, cordyceps, maitake, and turkey tail mushroom extract and hemp extract | None |
* Analysis conducted in the University of Virginia Health Toxicology Laboratory using liquid chromatography–quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry. The testing instrument did not have capability to test for muscimol, ibotenic acid, muscarine, or the mushrooms indicated as ingredients on the product labels, although those mushrooms (lion’s mane, chagas, reishi, cordyceps, maitake, and turkey tail) are not psychogenic.
† Unspecified mushroom ingredients used to enhance cognition.