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Two Combat Veterans Launch a 7-Mushroom Cocoa With Every Dose on the Label

August 23, 2026 · Shroombiosis LLC & Die Tryin Co.

Shroombiosis and Die Tryin Co., two supplement companies founded by U.S. Army combat veterans, announced the launch of Shroombiosis, a caffeine-free functional mushroom supplement in powder form that publishes the dose of every ingredient on its Supplement Facts panel.

The formula was developed by Onur Oncer, a U.S. Army combat veteran with a B.S. in Physiology, and Dr. Danielle Oncer, a PharmD. It is manufactured and distributed through Die Tryin Co., the veteran-owned supplement brand founded by U.S. Army combat veteran Jon Klipstein.

Why it was built

Shroombiosis originated with a customer reading a label and finding it insufficient.

“Like a lot of people, I started with the big mushroom coffees. Then I read the labels. Proprietary blends that would not tell me how much of anything I was getting,” said Onur Oncer, founder of Shroombiosis.

Oncer and his wife worked through the research ingredient by ingredient and formulated what they could not find on the shelf. A physiologist and a pharmacist, building for themselves first.

What the category leaves out

Functional mushroom supplements moved from health food stores into mainstream retail in under a decade. Labeling standards did not keep pace, and two practices are worth understanding before comparing any two products.

The first is mycelium grown on grain. Mycelium is the root-like network of the fungus, not the mushroom. It is far cheaper and faster to produce than fruiting body mushrooms because it can be grown in a bag on a substrate that is almost always rice. At harvest the mycelium and the rice it grew through are not separated. They are dried and milled together and sold by combined weight.

This is legal, and the label can be technically accurate. A product can read “2,000 mg mushroom” while a substantial share of that weight is starch from the growing medium. Nothing on the panel distinguishes the two.

“We encourage people to look up and compare our product Shroombiosis with other products out on the market — they would be very surprised,” said Danielle, co-founder of Shroombiosis.

The second is the proprietary blend. Several mushrooms are grouped under one combined total, so the amount of any individual species is unknowable. A blend can be named after its most marketable mushroom, list it first, and contain very little of it.

Both practices persist for the same reason: nothing on the package can be verified.

The formula, printed

Every mushroom in Shroombiosis is dual-extracted, never mycelium grown on grain. Dual extraction uses both hot water and alcohol, because mushroom compounds do not share a solubility profile. Beta-glucans, the polysaccharides associated with fungal cell walls, are water-soluble. Triterpenes, prominent in species such as reishi and chaga, largely are not. A water-only process captures one group and leaves much of the other behind.

Per serving: Lion’s Mane (Hericium erinaceus) 1,000 mg · Cordyceps 1,000 mg · Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum) 500 mg · Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor) 500 mg · Chaga (Inonotus obliquus) 500 mg · Poria (Wolfiporia cocos) 500 mg · Tiger’s Milk (Pleurotus tuber-regium) 300 mg — 4,300 mg of mushroom extract across seven species, each amount printed individually.

The company also names the fungal part rather than applying one label to everything. Poria and Tiger’s Milk are sclerotia — a dense storage structure that is neither fruiting body nor mycelium-on-grain — and Shroombiosis says so rather than rounding everything up to the more marketable term.

“Naming the part is a small thing that tells you a lot. Rounding everything to fruiting body is easier and it sells better. It is also not what is in the tub,” said Oncer.

The biotic stack, complete

Underneath the mushroom complex sits a three-part biotic system. A prebiotic is fiber that feeds bacteria already present. A probiotic is live or spore-forming bacteria introduced from outside. A postbiotic is the beneficial byproduct of bacterial activity, delivered directly.

Most products in the category include one of the three. Shroombiosis includes all three: 750 mg of acacia fiber as the prebiotic, 20 mg of DE111® probiotic in spore-forming form, and 100 mg of BPL1® postbiotic in heat-treated form, a strain with published human research behind it. Each amount appears on the panel alongside the mushrooms.

No added caffeine, and not a mushroom coffee

Shroombiosis contains no added caffeine, which separates it from a category largely positioned as a mushroom-coffee alternative. The reasoning is attribution: when a product pairs mushrooms with a meaningful caffeine dose, the customer cannot tell what produced the effect. Shroombiosis is not sold as a coffee substitute — it mixes into whatever the customer already drinks, including coffee. The powder is a white chocolate mocha built on real cocoa, coconut milk powder and Ceylon cinnamon, at 25 calories and zero sugar per serving.

An invitation to check

“Go and check us. Ask Google. Ask ChatGPT. Pick any mushroom on our label, take the exact dose printed next to it, and see whether the research holds up,” said Oncer.

Shroombiosis publishes a side-by-side label comparison against leading category products at shroombiosis.com/compare, along with per-ingredient research summaries.

“The mushroom aisle is running the same playbook the pre-workout aisle ran for years. Hide the dose, sell the story, charge for the packaging,” said Jon Klipstein, founder of Die Tryin Co.

The mushrooms used are non-psychoactive culinary and traditional-use species. The product contains no psilocybin.

Availability

Shroombiosis is available at dietryin.co/products/shroombiosis (opens in new tab) and shroombiosis.com, currently at $49.99 for a 30-serving tub. A subscription option starts at $37.49 for the first delivery and $42.49 monthly thereafter, and can be cancelled at any time. Checkout and shipping are handled by Die Tryin Co.

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