Real Mushrooms vs Nootropics Depot Cordyceps Capsules: Labels and Cost Comparison

Exact labels and recorded costs

Observed 2026-09-30. These exact variants were checked separately from the older catalog snapshot published August 20, 2026, so values can differ. Minimum statements remain minimum statements; sample COA results are kept separate from the arithmetic. A label serving is the package’s stated unit.

Selected packages and listed prices

The selected Real Mushrooms package is 120 capsules · RM-CM60C, with a listed one-time price of $34.95. The selected Nootropics Depot package is 60 capsules, 250mg, with a listed one-time price of $24.99. Real Mushrooms has the larger capsule count and the higher listed price.

Both packages still resolve to the same count of label servings: 60 for Real Mushrooms and 60 for Nootropics Depot. The Real Mushrooms count is derived by dividing the selected capsule count by its label serving of 2 capsules. The Nootropics Depot count comes from its Supplement Facts panel, where a serving is 1 capsule.

Why price per serving is only part of the picture

Dividing listed price by label servings gives $0.5825 per serving for Real Mushrooms and $0.4165 for Nootropics Depot. The Nootropics Depot figure is lower, but the units being priced are not the same. A Real Mushrooms label serving is 1000 mg of extract and a Nootropics Depot label serving is 250 mg of extract.

Both masses are extract as printed on the Supplement Facts panel, not raw mushroom, and the extracts are described in different terms. Price per serving compares each brand's own label unit, not equal amounts of material.

Extraction wording and other ingredients

Real Mushrooms states hot-water extraction on its product page and gives no extract ratio. Nootropics Depot prints a 10:1 declared extract ratio on its Supplement Facts panel and uses the words dual extract in its product name. A method with no ratio and a declared ratio cannot be placed on a common scale, and the ratio is not used here to convert capsule mass into a raw-mushroom figure. Both products name fruiting body as the part used, Real Mushrooms on its product page and Nootropics Depot in its Supplement Facts ingredient line.

The Real Mushrooms label lists hypromellose (vegetable capsule), microcrystalline cellulose (flow agent), silicon dioxide as other ingredients. The Nootropics Depot label lists microcrystalline cellulose, silicon dioxide, magnesium stearate, vegetable cellulose. Microcrystalline cellulose and silicon dioxide appear on both lists, and magnesium stearate appears only on the Nootropics Depot list.

Beta-glucan: a label amount versus an unresolved conflict

The current Real Mushrooms Supplement Facts panel states 80 mg of beta-glucans per 1000 mg serving, and the back label image for the selected package shows the same declaration. That is a label statement, not a measured result for the lot being shipped. Using it, the listed price works out to $7.2812 per gram of label-stated beta-glucan. A generic brand comparison further down the same page gives a percentage that is not specific to this package and does not match the label amount, so it is left out of the arithmetic.

The Supplement Facts panel in the Nootropics Depot product gallery does not state a beta-glucan amount, so there is no label input to use. Beta-glucan cost is unavailable: the webpage minimum of 20% conflicts with a linked 60-count sample report showing 0 mg per capsule. The current shipped lot is unknown. That report describes a single published lot and does not establish the contents of every package, and the page minimum is a claim rather than a label amount. Neither is used, so the Real Mushrooms per-gram figure has nothing to be ranked against.

Sample reports and what remains unknown

Each brand links a published sample report, and neither report is matched to the lot currently being shipped. The Real Mushrooms report names a supplied sample under a different package code from the selected package, a code that corresponds to a larger capsule-count offer. Its beta-glucan percentage is a separate figure from both the label amount and the generic page claim; it stays out of the cost arithmetic and does not confirm the label. The Nootropics Depot report covers a named lot in the same capsule count as the selected package, but whether that lot is still being shipped is unknown.

Reading this comparison

The selected Real Mushrooms package has a listed one-time price of $34.95 and the selected Nootropics Depot package $24.99, or $0.5825 and $0.4165 per label serving. Those servings hold 1000 mg and 250 mg of differently described extract, so the per-serving gap is not like-for-like. Only the Real Mushrooms label states a beta-glucan amount, giving $7.2812 per gram. The Nootropics Depot figure is withheld because its page minimum and a published lot report conflict, so no beta-glucan cost ranking can be drawn.

Explore the recorded arithmetic

Open a package’s recorded inputs in the cost calculator. You can change a price or label input and see the arithmetic update. Withheld beta-glucan inputs stay blank.

Real Mushrooms

Older catalog record · August 20, 2026 snapshot; it may show different source values.

Nootropics Depot

Beta inputs omitted: Beta-glucan cost is unavailable: the webpage minimum of 20% conflicts with a linked 60-count sample report showing 0 mg per capsule. The current shipped lot is unknown.

Older catalog record · August 20, 2026 snapshot; it may show different source values.

Sources, dates and remaining unknowns

This article compares first-party labels, exact package offers and published documents. It records what each source states. Source observations and package selection are specific to this comparison.

Real Mushrooms · 120 capsules · RM-CM60C

product-page source · Observed 2026-09-30

Selected capsule package, one-time USD offer, and product-specific ingredient/extraction statements.

label source · Observed 2026-09-30

Current official Supplement Facts panel; explicit extract and beta-glucan amounts per label serving.

coa source · Observed 2026-09-30

Brand-published sample report; the report does not establish the current shipped lot or replace label inputs.

label source · Observed 2026-09-30

Back of the selected 120-capsule bottle corroborates the 80 mg beta-glucan declaration.

Published sample reports

VR26-01821.003 — The report identifies a different package code: report RM-CM150C corresponds to 300-capsule offer; selected offer is RM-CM60C, 120 capsules. Brand-published report for the named supplied sample; not a current bottle or lot guarantee. Excluded from cost arithmetic.

Single-unit one-time USD price observed September 30, 2026; shipping, tax and subscription offers excluded.

Servings per container are derived from the selected capsule count divided by the label serving size.

The linked sample report is not matched to the currently shipped bottle. The report identifies a different package code: report RM-CM150C corresponds to 300-capsule offer; selected offer is RM-CM60C, 120 capsules.

The specific Supplement Facts and 120-capsule bottle image state 80 mg beta-glucans per 1,000 mg extract. A generic lower-page brand comparison says above 30%; that generic statement is excluded from this calculation.

Nootropics Depot · 60 capsules, 250mg

product-page source · Observed 2026-09-30

Selected capsule package and one-time USD offer; product ingredient statements.

label source · Observed 2026-09-30

Official product-gallery Supplement Facts for the stated capsule format.

coa source · Observed 2026-09-30

Public report for the stated 60-count sample lot; current shipped lot unknown.

Published sample reports

ND-26-531 — One published 60-count lot report; beta-glucan result is report-only. Current shipped lot unknown; excluded from calculation.

Single-unit one-time USD price observed September 30, 2026; shipping, tax and subscription offers excluded.

Product-page minimum beta-glucan claim is 20%; the gallery Supplement Facts does not state a beta-glucan amount.

Linked 60-count report ND-26-531, dated May 4, 2026, reports 0 mg beta-glucan per capsule for lot CM1CS1050426. The current shipped lot is unknown.

The webpage claim and published sample result conflict; beta-glucan cost is withheld. The sample does not establish the contents of every bottle.