Are You New to Medicinal Mushrooms? Wondering If Milk Can Add Flavour To Mushroom Tea? While drinking just mushroom tea on its own can boost immunity and provide other health benefits, adding milk as part of your cup can enhance its therapeutic benefits further.

Answer to this question is definitively “yes!” No matter whether you are drinking chaga tea for its anti-inflammatory benefits or cordyceps tea to boost immunity, adding dairy can help the mushroom extracts enter your system more readily while providing extra nutrition and balancing out their earthy flavors.

Addition of milk to mushroom tea has been practiced for centuries. Native Siberians are famed for regularly using powdered chaga mushrooms in stews and soups as folk remedies to address health issues; their drink has long been revered for its healing effects, associated with longer lifespans, decreased cancer rates and higher energy levels.

Traditional mushroom tea-drinking methods involve steeping mushroom spores in hot water for 10-20 minutes until they disintegrate, releasing beneficial compounds that are then easily absorbed by your digestive tract. The resultant liquid offers earthy flavors with subtle yet grounding qualities; depending on which fungus (or blend of mushrooms) was used, you might get various flavours; Chaga offers vanilla-like notes while Reishi and Lion’s Mane tea bring subtle seafood-like umami notes, while Cordyceps tea offers earthy yet nutty nutty notes – perfect!

Start by heating up some filtered water in a kettle or saucepan and bringing to a boil for at least five minutes, so that all soluble compounds can be extracted. You may use either an infuser or simply add dried mushroom pieces directly to the boiling water – both methods require straining the finished tea afterward.

Once your tea has cooled off, adding some milk can make it even more satisfying and smooth out its texture. Popular choices for milk include coconut, almond and oat milks. Milk will not only enhance its flavor but will also smooth its texture further for maximum enjoyment!

If you want to prepare a large batch of mushroom tea for later, refrigerating is the way to go – up to one week should do it, though make sure not to reheat as this could degrade some beneficial compounds. Some prefer freezing their mushroom tea into ice cube trays for easy thawing and serving when necessary.