NOW Foods
NOW Foods Lion's Mane
A solid budget pick from a legacy GMP-certified brand using organic fruiting body powder, but transparency stops at the marketing copy: there are no public lot-level COAs and no labeled beta-glucan percentage, so you are trusting NOW's in-house lab rather than verifying it yourself.
Editorial conclusion
Verdict
A solid budget pick from a legacy GMP-certified brand using organic fruiting body powder, but transparency stops at the marketing copy: there are no public lot-level COAs and no labeled beta-glucan percentage, so you are trusting NOW's in-house lab rather than verifying it yourself.
Best for: Budget-first readers who want a mainstream brand.
NootroScore methodology
Score breakdown
Each axis is scored 0 to 10. The overall NootroScore weights potency 40%, purity 25%, value 20%, and transparency 15%. See the full methodology.
- Potency Beta-glucan content as disclosed on each brand's published Certificate of Analysis, weighed against the label claim.
- 7/10
- Purity Heavy-metals and microbial test results, where the brand publishes a per-batch COA, evaluated against USP-grade thresholds.
- 8/10
- Value Cost per active milligram of beta-glucan, normalized across formats.
- 9/10
- Transparency Sourcing disclosure, public certificate-of-analysis access, and label accuracy.
- 6/10
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