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PricePlow Profiles NuCelium: A New Standard for Cordyceps Potency

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Originally featured in PricePlow.

PricePlow, one of the supplement industry’s most widely read research blogs, published an in-depth profile of NuCelium under the headline “The Canadian Mushroom Company Setting a New Standard for Cordyceps Potency.” Here’s a look at what they covered.

A record result at the Cordy Cup

The profile opens with our result at the 2025 Cordy Cup. CordyFuel won the Best Fruiting Body / Full-Spectrum Cordyceps category with 14.83 mg/g cordycepin and 4.2 mg/g adenosine. For context, the competition average was 4.37 mg/g cordycepin and 1.34 mg/g adenosine.

PricePlow is careful to point out that competition samples can be cherry-picked, which is exactly why what we sell matters more than what we enter.

Verified on every batch

Our commercial CordyFuel 10X™ is guaranteed to deliver at least 3 mg/g cordycepin, and every batch is verified by UPLC testing at ISO-certified Omnient Labs. As PricePlow puts it, NuCelium “isn’t relying on marketing claims.”

The profile also covers our Cordyceps Challenge: we’ll pay for UPLC testing of competing cordyceps so formulators can compare results side by side. We think the whole category gets better when everyone publishes real numbers.

How we grow

PricePlow walks through our approach to cultivation:

  • Whole-organism, full-spectrum material that keeps the mycelium, fruiting body and the compounds released into the growing medium.
  • Solid-state fermentation on sorghum, with growing cycles of around two months and sometimes longer.
  • A 45,000 sq ft, solar-powered facility in Coldstream, BC, designed to use less water and electricity.

The people behind it

The article also introduces the team, from CEO Riley Boudreau and CRO Rob Swiderski to co-founder Andrew Poulton, who brings roughly 25 years of mycology experience, along with COO David Kunz, VP of Food Safety and QA Pablo Morales and production lead Evelyn Bailey. You can meet the whole team on our About page.

Beyond CordyFuel

Finally, PricePlow looks at the rest of our line, including lion’s mane, reishi, turkey tail, shiitake, maitake and agaricus blazei, and at why formulators across supplements, beverages and functional foods are paying attention to a supplier that grows what it sells and backs it with data.

The full profile, with PricePlow’s analysis, is on the PricePlow blog.