What is the difference between MUD\WTR and RYZE?

The biggest practical difference is how each one discloses dosing. MUD\WTR breaks out per-mushroom amounts on the package, so you can see how much cordyceps or reishi is in a serving. RYZE prints a single 2,000 mg total for its six-mushroom SUPER6 blend, which means the split between those six is unknown. RYZE is also cheaper per serving, and its Medium Roast is instant coffee, so it carries more caffeine.

Does MUD\WTR or RYZE have more caffeine?

RYZE Medium Roast has more. It is built on organic instant coffee and states roughly half the caffeine of a normal cup, about 48 mg. MUD\WTR's original blend is tea-based at around 35 mg, and their newer Coffee blend is about 45 mg. Neither brand's flagship is caffeine-free, though MUD\WTR does sell genuinely zero-caffeine blends in its Turmeric and Rest lines.

Which is cheaper, MUD\WTR or RYZE?

RYZE, by a wide margin per serving. On a Target shelf on 9 August 2026, RYZE Medium Roast was $17.99 for 20 servings, about $0.90 a serving. MUD\WTR Coffee Mocha was $19.99 for 12 servings, about $1.67 a serving. RYZE also runs frequent promotional pricing on its own site, so the number you pay there moves around.

How many mushrooms are in MUD\WTR vs RYZE?

RYZE lists six in its SUPER6 blend: cordyceps, reishi, king trumpet, shiitake, turkey tail and lion's mane. The MUD\WTR blends carry four. More species is not automatically better, though. Six mushrooms sharing a 2,000 mg total means each one is getting a smaller share than the headline number suggests.

Do MUD\WTR or RYZE contain probiotics?

Neither includes a probiotic or a postbiotic. RYZE does include a prebiotic fiber blend of acacia, inulin and tapioca fiber, which feeds bacteria already in your gut rather than adding any. If a full pre, pro and postbiotic stack matters to you, neither of these covers it.

Is MUD\WTR or RYZE better for someone avoiding caffeine?

Neither flagship product suits you, since both contain caffeine. MUD\WTR is the better starting point because its Turmeric and Rest blends are genuinely caffeine-free, so the brand offers a zero-caffeine option if you go looking for it. If caffeine-free is the whole point rather than a variant, a mix-in built that way from the start is a cleaner fit.

MUD\WTR vs RYZE: What Each Label Actually Says

These are the two names that come up most when someone starts looking at mushroom drinks, and almost every comparison of them is written by an affiliate. So here is a different version: what each package actually says, read off the physical bags on a Target shelf on 9 August 2026, with the prices from the tags that day.

One thing to say up front, because it decides most of the rest. MUD\WTR prints per-mushroom amounts on the package. RYZE does not. That is the single most useful difference between them, and it is not the one most comparisons lead with.

The short version

	MUD\WTR (Coffee Mocha)	RYZE (Medium Roast)
Per-mushroom doses printed?	Yes	No — one 2,000 mg blend total
Mushrooms	4	6 (SUPER6)
Caffeine	~45 mg (Coffee blend); ~35 mg (original, from tea)	~48 mg, from instant coffee
Servings / price	12 · $19.99	20 · $17.99
Per serving	~$1.67	~$0.90
Prebiotic / probiotic / postbiotic	none	prebiotic fiber only
Caffeine-free option in the range	Yes — Turmeric and Rest blends	No

Dosing: the difference that matters

RYZE's package makes a specific promise: "2000 mg of our SUPER6™ organic mushroom blend." Six mushrooms are named — cordyceps, reishi, king trumpet, shiitake, turkey tail and lion's mane — and one number covers all of them.

That number is real, and 2,000 mg is not a small amount. The problem is that it tells you nothing about the split. If you are buying a mushroom drink because you read something about lion's mane, you cannot tell from that package whether you are getting 900 mg of it or 90. Six species dividing 2,000 mg averages about 333 mg each, and nobody has told you the division is even.

MUD\WTR handles this differently, and they deserve credit for it. Their panel breaks out individual mushrooms with amounts attached — cordyceps and reishi each listed at 560 mg on the bag I photographed. You can look at that and know what you bought. It is the same thing we do on our own label, and it is rarer in this category than it should be.

So the honest framing is not "these brands hide their doses." One of them does, one of them doesn't. If you want to learn to spot the difference yourself on any package, we wrote a whole guide to reading a mushroom supplement label.

Caffeine: both, in different amounts

Neither of these is a caffeine-free product, which surprises people who came looking for a coffee alternative.

RYZE Medium Roast is built on organic instant coffee. Their own packaging describes it as having about half the caffeine of a normal cup, which lands around 48 mg. MUD\WTR's original blend is tea-based and runs around 35 mg, and their newer Coffee blend is about 45 mg.

To be fair to MUD\WTR here too: their Turmeric and Rest blends are genuinely zero-caffeine. So if you are cutting caffeine and want to stay with a familiar brand, that range has an actual answer for you. RYZE's flagship does not.

If you are cutting down rather than cutting out, it is worth knowing that "decaf" doesn't mean zero either — we get into why decaf still has caffeine in it.

Price, honestly

RYZE is the cheaper cup, and it isn't close. $17.99 for 20 servings works out to about $0.90 a serving. MUD\WTR Coffee Mocha at $19.99 for 12 servings is about $1.67. Nearly double.

One caveat on RYZE's pricing: it moves. On their own site the same bag has shown a $45 list price, a $36 subscription price, and a $27 checkout price under a promotional banner, all at the same time. The Target shelf price and their promotional floor happen to match, so $0.90 a serving is a fair number to plan around — but treat any single RYZE price you see as a snapshot.

There is a second way to look at cost that this category rarely uses: what you pay per 1,000 mg of disclosed mushroom extract. By that measure RYZE is about $0.45 and MUD\WTR Coffee Mocha is about $0.74. That flips the ranking, because RYZE puts more mushroom into a cheaper serving — with the catch, again, that you don't know how that 2,000 mg divides.

What else is in the cup

RYZE includes a prebiotic fiber blend — acacia, inulin and tapioca fiber. Prebiotic fiber feeds bacteria already living in your gut; it doesn't add any. Neither RYZE nor MUD\WTR includes a probiotic or a postbiotic. If the gut side of this is what interests you, that distinction is worth understanding, and we break it down in prebiotics vs probiotics vs postbiotics.

Both are certified organic. Both are built to taste like a warm morning drink rather than a supplement, which is a real part of why people stick with either one.

Which one suits you

Choose RYZE if you want the cheapest daily cup, you're happy keeping some caffeine, and a blend total is enough disclosure for you. It is the best price per serving on that shelf and the mushroom total is respectable.

Choose MUD\WTR if dosing transparency matters to you, or you want a zero-caffeine option inside a range you can taste your way through. You pay noticeably more per serving for it.

Choose neither if what you actually want is a mix-in with no caffeine at all as the default rather than a variant, individual doses printed for every mushroom, and a complete biotic stack in the same scoop. That combination is why we built Shroombiosis: seven dual-extracted mushrooms totalling 4,300 mg, each one at its own printed milligram, 0 mg caffeine, plus a prebiotic, probiotic and postbiotic together. At the founding price of $49.99 for 30 servings that is about $1.67 a serving — the same as MUD\WTR per cup, and more expensive than RYZE — which by that cost-per-1,000 mg measure works out around $0.39.

We are not the cheap option and we won't pretend to be. What the extra buys is the part you can verify: every number on the label, and the research behind each one published where you can check it.

Read the panel, not the front

The front of a mushroom drink bag is marketing. The panel on the back is the part that has to be true. Whichever of these you're weighing, turn the bag around and ask three questions: is there a number next to each mushroom, or just one number for all of them; is there caffeine in it, and how much; and what is the price per serving rather than per bag.

Those three answers separate these two products more usefully than any review can, and they work on every other bag on that shelf too. Our full comparison page runs the same exercise across five brands with the photographs behind it.

References

Package facts for MUD\WTR Coffee Mocha and RYZE Medium Roast were read from the physical packages and shelf tags at a Target store on 9 August 2026, and photographed. Prices are that day's shelf tags and will drift.
RYZE promotional pricing observed live on ryzesuperfoods.com, 11 August 2026.
Shroombiosis figures are from our own Supplement Facts panel and product data.

These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.