Natural Energy Supplements, Caffeine to Cordyceps

Worth clearing up first: "Energy" is the name of the shelf, not a description of what's inside every jar. Plenty of people arrive expecting a wall of caffeine tablets, and a big chunk of what's here contains no caffeine at all. Magnesium citrate, a vitamin B complex, active B12, iron with vitamin C, Q10, spirulina, ginkgo biloba, acetyl-L-carnitine, maca, rhodiola, shilajit, cordyceps and eleuthero, plus Lion's Mane, all sit next to the caffeine-containing plants. So read the format and the plant list, the same way you'd read anything else in our Healthshop.

Capsules, Gummies, Loose Leaf Or Dried Root

Format decides most of this choice before the plant does.

• Capsules: vegan capsule formats are the tidiest way in. NRG Natural Party Capsules come as 4 vegan HPMC capsules per pack, and Cordyceps, Power 5, maca and Lion's Mane Mushroom Capsules sit alongside them.
• Gummies: the Lion's Mane Gummies are raspberry-flavoured, chewy rather than hard, sugar-free at under 0.015g sugars per gummy, and come 60 to a tub, with the daily serving size printed on the label as 2 gummies, so a tub covers 30 of those servings. If you'd rather taste nothing, the Lion's Mane Mushroom Capsules hold the same extract.
• Loose leaf tea: Good Morning Herbs Tea, Fresh & Fitness Tea and Energiser Tea, all in airtight aroma-sealed packs.
• Tincture and raw herb: a Power 5 mushroom tincture, plus Ginseng (Panax ginseng) in 25 gram dried root and Kola Nut (Cola nitida) as seeds.

Watch out for two label notes. Good Morning Herbs Tea contains liquorice root, and the pack carries the usual liquorice caution for anyone with high blood pressure. And once the Lion's Mane Gummies tub is opened, finish it within 3 months.

What The Labels Actually List, Plant By Plant

Milligram figures belong to the product they're printed on, never to the shelf as a whole. The NRG Natural Party Capsules list, per capsule, guarana at 100mg (16% natural caffeine), cacao extract at 100mg (10% theobromine), mate tea extract at 40mg (8% caffeine), green tea extract at 200mg (95% polyphenols, 90mg EGCG), 70mg natural caffeine from coffee beans, cayenne pepper extract at 20mg, ginger root extract at 15mg, L-Tyrosine at 45mg, plus B1 1.1mg, B5 6.0mg, B6 1.4mg and B12 2.5mcg, each at 100% of the reference intake. L-theanine is a compound found in green tea, though the green tea extract here is printed by polyphenols and EGCG rather than by L-theanine. Elsewhere: caffeine was identified in the kola nut in 1865 and theobromine later; Panax ginseng root is rich in ginsenosides; Hericium erinaceus is the species behind hericenones. Energiser Tea lists cocoa beans, guarana seed, basil, ginger root, rosemary, kola nut and ginseng root. Kola seeds are bitter, red and white, and traditionally eaten fresh, stored in water, or dried in the sun. The capsule packs carry the usual line that food supplements aren't a substitute for a varied diet.

Two Of The Teas Are Kratom, And Here They Are

Jetpackkratom Chai Tea and Jetpackkratom Ceylon Tea. Both come as 5x 4g tea bags, each bag containing 65mg of mitragynine sourced from Mitragyna speciosa, steeped 3 to 5 minutes in hot water. The Chai bag holds black tea with cinnamon, ginger, cloves, black pepper, cardamom, rose petals and liquorice root, and the cinnamon and cardamom come through the moment hot water hits it. The Ceylon bag is plainer: black Ceylon tea and rose petals. Spice fans take the Chai, tea purists take the Ceylon.

Picking One, Plus Why Rutaecarpine Lands Here

Work format first (brew it, chew it, or swallow it), then plant, then check the label amounts against what you already take. Search terms like caffeine anhydrous, caffeine half-life and the caffeine plus theanine pairing all bring people to pages like this one, and we stick to what the packs list rather than pharmacology. Rutaecarpine is an alkaloid from the Evodia rutaecarpa tree, and we do not sell it, as a single ingredient or in a blend. If that's what brought you here, the nearest thing is the products that print their caffeine in milligrams, like the NRG capsules. Picking blind, we'd hand you the Ginseng (Panax ginseng) 25 grams first: one plant, no flavouring, no filler, and it keeps in the cupboard. The rest of the vitamin, mineral and mushroom range sits over in the Healthshop.