Upraising Review: Is Full Color Worth It Next to the Mushroom Coffees?

Our analysis of Upraising: the blends under the microscope

This page is an analysis of Upraising's official product pages, not a personal trial. We went through the ingredient panels, the amounts published per serving, the pack sizes and the current one-time prices on upraising.co, then checked the shipping and returns conditions at the point where an American reader would actually order. Upraising does ship to the United States, through UPS Express, at a published cost that deserves its own section further down.

First observation: the catalog is not what an older description of the brand would suggest. The core of the range is three ground arabica coffees blended with mushroom and plant extracts. Yerba mate arrived later, with a single reference, Full Color. Two of the products sold today contain no coffee and no mate at all.

📌 Full Color: the yerba mate morning ritual

Full Color is the newest reference and the one the store pushes hardest. The pouch holds 30 servings of 4 g, so 120 g, and the ingredient list is short: yerba mate leaf powder, yerba mate leaf extract, maca root extract, lion's mane extract, chaga fruit extract, rhodiola rosea root extract and ginger extract. No filler, no sweetener, no added flavor. The one figure the brand does quantify is caffeine: 65 mg per serving, which it presents as roughly half a cup of filter coffee.

Preparation is instant, one scoop in 250 mL of hot water. The price is €29.90, displayed as 15% off a €34.90 reference, which works out at about €1.00 per serving. The cautions on the page are unusually explicit for a drink powder: reserved for adults, not recommended in case of heart failure or renal edema, gastroduodenal ulcer, high blood pressure or hyperthyroidism, and not recommended during pregnancy or breastfeeding. What is missing is the milligram amount of each extract, so the mate is documented and the rest is not.

📌 Flow State: the lion's mane coffee

Flow State is the brand's most reviewed product, with 112 customer reviews displayed on its page. It is a 300 g bag of ground coffee giving 20 servings of 15 g, and Upraising publishes the panel serving by serving: 14.4 g of coffee, 250 mg of lion's mane extract, 250 mg of bacopa monnieri extract and 100 mg of L-theanine. That level of disclosure is rare enough in functional coffee to be worth pointing out, since most competitors stop at an ingredient list.

The price is €24.90, about €1.25 per cup. The coffee is 100% arabica from Colombia, medium roast, ground for immersion, filter and pour-over rather than espresso. The one number that is not published is the caffeine content of the coffee itself, so anyone tracking total stimulant intake has to estimate it from the 14.4 g of grounds. The page carries the standard food supplement cautions and states it is not recommended for pregnant women.

📌 Sidekick: the two-ingredient creamer

Sidekick is the simplest product in the catalog and the one most often misdescribed. It contains exactly two ingredients, coconut milk powder and MCTs, and nothing else. There is no lion's mane, no cordyceps and no L-theanine in it. The pouch holds 150 g, or 30 servings of 5 g, roughly a teaspoon, and costs €18.90.

It is caffeine-free and works as a creamer in any hot drink, which makes it the natural companion to the coffees and to Full Color. Two points to keep in mind: the page warns that it may contain traces of milk, so it is not a guaranteed dairy-free product, and it remains a concentrated fat. The brand's own weight management language sits well ahead of what two ingredients can support.

📌 Flow State+ and Life Force+: the caffeine-free powders

The two enhanced powders are the part of the range that answers the decaf question. Flow State+ is a 50-serving powder of lion's mane extract 65%, bacopa monnieri extract 25% and L-theanine 10%, taken as 1 g scoops mixed into coffee, tea, a smoothie or a shake. Life Force+ follows the same logic with chaga extract 60%, rhodiola rosea extract 20% and schisandra chinensis 20%. Both are €33.90, down from a €39.90 reference.

Neither contains coffee or mate, so both are caffeine-free by composition, as is Sidekick. What the percentages do not give you is a milligram figure per gram of finished powder, and the pages do not state beta-glucan levels or bacoside standardization. The brand does say where the mushrooms come from, which is the more useful half of the answer.

The verdict on format and dosing

Upraising works in two formats. The coffees are 300 g bags for 20 servings, brewed like any ground coffee, with the actives already blended in. The powders and Full Color are scoops you add to a liquid, 1 g for the powders and 4 g for Full Color, which is far more flexible if you already have a coffee routine you like. Sidekick sits across both as a creamer.

Dosing is honest where it is published. Flow State, Bright Mood and Life Force all carry a full per-serving panel. Full Color and the two powders do not, and that is the main gap in an otherwise readable catalog. On the practical side, all products are vegan and gluten-free according to the brand, and subscriptions are available on some references every 4, 6 or 8 weeks, flexible and cancellable at any time.

Effectiveness and what to expect

The brand talks about focus, calm alertness, mood and resilience. Those are marketing categories, not authorized claims, and they should be read as what Upraising reports rather than as an established result. Lion's mane, bacopa, rhodiola, chaga, reishi, ashwagandha and yerba mate are plants and fungi studied for cognitive and adaptogenic effects; that body of work does not turn a 250 mg extract in a cup of coffee into a proven outcome for a given person.

What is measurable is caffeine. Full Color states 65 mg per serving, the coffees are genuine arabica and therefore stimulating, and L-theanine may change how that caffeine feels without removing it. Anyone sensitive to stimulants, pregnant, breastfeeding, on medication or managing high blood pressure or a thyroid condition should read the cautions on the page and speak to a health professional first. None of these products replaces sleep, food or medical follow-up.

Who is Upraising?

Upraising is operated by Upraising Effects S.L., registered under number B10861540 at Carrer de Tuset 19, 08006 Barcelona. It is therefore a Spanish company, and its store prices are in euros, with a British pound version for the United Kingdom. The green coffee comes from Colombia, from a small farmers' cooperative called Orquidea in the Tolima area and the neighboring region of Huila, roasted medium and ground.

The mushroom extracts are sourced in Finland, described by the brand as 100% fruiting body, produced by ultrasonic extraction and third party tested. The coffee is certified organic for both the European Union and the United States. There is no Trustpilot profile for the brand; the review counts you can check are the ones displayed on each product page, from 112 on Flow State and 98 on Bright Mood down to 18 on the recently launched Full Color.

📌 Key commitments

• 100% arabica from the Orquidea cooperative in Tolima and Huila, Colombia, certified organic for the EU and the US
• Mushroom extracts sourced in Finland, 100% fruiting body, ultrasonic extraction, third party tested
• Per-serving panel published on the three coffees, in grams and milligrams
• Vegan and gluten-free products, with no filler, sweetener or added flavor in Full Color
• Flexible subscription every 4, 6 or 8 weeks, pausable and cancellable at any time

Full Color against a standard functional coffee

The table shows where Upraising is genuinely ahead and where it is not. Publishing the caffeine figure and naming the origin, the plant part and the testing of the mushrooms puts Full Color above most instant functional blends. The missing milligram amounts per extract keep it from a clean sweep, and that gap is the single thing we would most like the brand to close. The last row is the one that changes the decision for an American reader, and it is a yes, at a price.

The Upraising range

The catalog is compact. Three ground coffees at €24.90 each, in 300 g bags of 20 servings: Flow State with lion's mane, bacopa and L-theanine, Bright Mood with reishi, ashwagandha and L-theanine, Life Force with chaga, rhodiola and schisandra. One yerba mate blend, Full Color, at €29.90 for 30 servings. Two enhanced powders at €33.90 for 50 servings, Flow State+ and Life Force+. One creamer, Sidekick, at €18.90 for 30 servings.

Packs are where the store does its real discounting. The 3 Coffees Pack is €59.90 instead of €74.70, the 3 Coffees and 2 Sidekicks Pack is €89.90 instead of €112.50, the 3 Full Colors and 3 Sidekicks Pack is €129.90 instead of €161.40, and the 2-Pack Mushroom Powders is €67.90. On a store where a promo code takes 10%, a bundle that already takes 20% is usually the better arithmetic, and the two rarely stack.

Composition breakdown: what the blends are actually made of

The three coffees, milligram by milligram

Each 15 g serving of the coffees is built the same way: 14.4 g of arabica plus roughly half a gram of actives. Flow State adds 250 mg of lion's mane extract, 250 mg of bacopa monnieri extract and 100 mg of L-theanine. Bright Mood adds 250 mg of reishi extract, 250 mg of ashwagandha extract and 100 mg of L-theanine. Life Force adds 250 mg of chaga extract, 200 mg of rhodiola rosea extract and 200 mg of schisandra chinensis extract. Life Force is the only one of the three built entirely on adaptogens rather than on a nootropic pairing.

Full Color, the powders and Sidekick, ingredient by ingredient

Full Color is a mate base, doubled up as leaf powder and leaf extract, then maca root, lion's mane, chaga fruit, rhodiola root and ginger, all as extracts, for 65 mg of caffeine in a 4 g serving. Flow State+ is 65% lion's mane extract, 25% bacopa and 10% L-theanine; Life Force+ is 60% chaga, 20% rhodiola and 20% schisandra, both in 1 g servings. Sidekick is two ingredients, coconut milk powder and MCTs, at 5 g per serving, with a traces of milk warning. Across the range the same handful of actives is recombined in different carriers, a coherent choice rather than a padded catalog.

Buying Upraising from the United States

Upraising ships to the United States. The shipping page lists a single American option, USA Express with UPS, at €29, which is about $34 at current rates, and states plainly that the customer is responsible for any duties owed. Every shipping method includes tracking, and orders placed before 1 p.m. are dispatched the same day. The free shipping thresholds, €50 in the European Union and £50 in the United Kingdom, do not apply to the American line.

That single number is the whole American calculation. A €29.90 pouch of Full Color plus €29 of UPS costs almost twice the product price before duties, so a one-item order makes very little sense from the United States. The 3 Full Colors and 3 Sidekicks Pack at €129.90, or the 3 Coffees Pack at €59.90, spread that fee over enough product to be defensible. One more thing to check before ordering: the store cannot accept returns of open coffee bags for health and safety reasons, and no refund window is published on the shipping and returns page, so treat a transatlantic order as final once opened.

Technical analysis and expert verdict

The strengths are real and easy to verify. Upraising publishes a per-serving panel on its three coffees, names the Colombian cooperative behind the beans, holds organic certification for the EU and the US, states that its mushroom extracts are Finnish, fruiting body only, ultrasonically extracted and third party tested, and keeps its ingredient lists free of fillers, sweeteners and flavorings. The formats are sensible, the subscription is genuinely flexible, and the pack discounts are large enough to matter. For a company of this size, that is an above-average level of transparency.

The limits are as clear. Full Color and the two enhanced powders give percentages or nothing at all instead of milligrams, no beta-glucan figure is published for any mushroom extract, the caffeine content of the coffees is not stated, and the marketing language around weight management and mood runs ahead of what the labels support. For an American buyer the €29 UPS charge and the absence of a published refund window are the practical obstacles, not the formulas. The LMC code takes 10% off eligible products on the official store, which helps on a single item but is smaller than the bundle discounts already displayed.