vybey and Spacegoods make nootropic coffee alternatives that deliver your caffeine fix alongside healthy food ingredients like fungi and vitamins.
The idea behind nootropic coffee alternatives is to cancel out the jitters that come with coffee and provide more sustainable energy.
Both vybey Braincare Smart Focus and Spacegoods Astro Dust have an excellent nutritional profile, but vybey is better for a few reasons:
- It has a B vitamin complex with B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, and B12.
- It's the only product with lion's mane, chaga, cordyceps, and Reishi mushrooms in one formula. Astro Dust has no Reishi.
- It contains L-theanine, an amino acid that enhances concentration alongside caffeine and smooths out the jitters.
Spacegoods Astro Dust has a few unique ingredients, like Rhodiola Rosea, but overall, it doesn't contain as many useful ones.
The case for vybey
vybey comes in two delicious flavours—cacao and Matcha—with cacao or Matcha green tea powder as the primary flavouring.
Here are the ingredients:
- Cacao powder organic
- Matcha green tea powder (in the Matcha flavour only)
- Green bean caffeine extract (Cacao flavour)
- Lion's mane mushroom extract 5:1
- Chaga mushroom extract 4:1
- Cordyceps extract 10:1
- Reishi extract 4:1
- Peruvian maca root extract 5:1
- Cinnamon bark powder
- Choline vitamin powder
- Turmeric root powder
- Vitamin B complex
- L-theanine (amino acid protein)
These ingredients work together to provide a massive energy boost beyond what coffee alone can. Users report 4-5 hours of energy and no jitters, making vybey fantastic for people who struggle to drink coffee.
The active fungi – lion's mane, chaga, cordyceps, and Reishi – help reduce brain fog with a potent mixture of antioxidants that work in the brain.
You get:
- 750mg of lion's mane
- 750mg of Chaga
- 750mg of cordyceps
- 300mg of Reishi mushroom
Reishi is unique to vybey. It's well-studied as a regenerative therapeutic agent for treating cognitive decline associated with neurodegenerative diseases [1].
Other ingredients like cinnamon bark and turmeric also contain antioxidants that help to purify the blood for a healthier morning drink [2].
Adding choline and a B vitamin complex is unique to vybey – Spacegoods Astro Dust only provides Vitamin B5 in a notable concentration.
Each ingredient is carefully chosen because it is either proven to or shows promise to boost cognitive performance synergistically with caffeine.
The bottom line is that vybey is a genuine alternative to coffee if you struggle with coffee’s jitters or want a longer-lasting energy boost.
The case for Spacegoods
Spacegoods makes two nootropic coffee alternatives – Space Dust and Astro Dust – with different active ingredients.
Before we cover them, it's crucial to know that vybey is unique in offering B vitamin complex, Reishi mushroom, and L-theanine as ingredients, but likewise, Space Dust and Astro Dust offer unique ingredients, too.
Rainbow Dust
Rainbow Dust contains three of the four mushrooms of vybey (no Reishi), focusing more on roots and herbs like Ashwagandha and Rhodiola Rosea.
The ingredients:
- Lion's mane
- Cordyceps
- Chaga mushroom
- Ashwagandha
- Maca root
- Rhodiola Rosea
- Vitamin B5
- Natural caffeine
The ingredient list is less extensive than vybey, but you get higher doses of lion's mane, Chaga, and cordyceps (1,000 mg vs 750 mg).
Rhodiola Rosea is the most significant ingredient differentiator, known to reduce stress and improve focus [1] and work well alongside caffeine.
Rainbow Dust's ingredients focus more on overall health than brain health, so if mental clarity is essential, vybey is best.
Astro Dust
Spacegoods Astro Dust is a bit of an outlier because it contains completely different mushrooms than vybey Braincare Smart Focus – no lion's mane, chaga, or cordyceps, instead just maitake, tremella, and Reishi.
It also gives you unique herbs – jujube, passionflower, chamomile – which help to calm the mind rather than increase alertness.
The ingredients:
- Maitake mushroom
- Tremella mushroom
- Reishi mushroom
- Ashwagandha
- Jujube
- Passionflower
- Chamomile
- L-glycine
- L-tryptophan
- Magnesium
These ingredients focus on energy, focus, and calmness, making Astro Dust a better option than Rainbow Dust if you struggle with sleep.
vybey is a much better option for overall alertness and focus because it gives you those essential B vitamins, more powerful nootropic mushrooms, and L-theanine, which is more effective than L-tryptophan for focus.
Jujube is an exciting ingredient for a nootropic coffee alternative because it helps treat stomach problems in traditional medicine by reducing gastric acid. It can also improve sleep [4] (which goes against the point of caffeine).
Right, so why is vybey better than Spacegoods?
vybey Braincare Smart Focus is better than Spacegoods because it contains more active ingredients that enhance energy, focus, and concentration.
You don't get choline, cinnamon bark, turmeric, L-theanine, vitamin B complex, or Matcha green tea powder in Spacegoods products. While you can get Reishi mushrooms in Spacegoods Astro Dust, it doesn't contain lion's mane, cordyceps, or Chaga mushrooms, so there's always some compromise.
If you want a complete nootropic coffee alternative, vybey is by far and away the best choice for most people.
vybey also tastes incredible. We can't vouch for the taste of Spacegoods' offerings, but we can vouch for our own, and vybey is a delight.
The Cocoa flavour tastes like a light, earthy chocolate drink, while the Matcha flavour brings more grassy notes with a savoury twist.
Both are gorgeous and well worth a go. You can add them to your morning shake for extra nutrition, and there's also nothing stopping you from adding Braincare Smart Focus to your coffee to double up on the caffeine.
Summing up
Not all nootropic coffee alternatives are equal.
vybey produces a complete nootropic drink in Braincare Smart Focus, while Spacegoods produces simpler products with different ingredients.
We recommend vybey if you get coffee jitters or want to detox from coffee and try something with more health benefits. Most people find they have more energy and can concentrate longer after drinking it.
Grab a vybey starter pack to try Braincare Smart Focus, Braincare Smart Greens, and vybey Complete Meal Powder and save 54% versus buying them separately.
Sources
Comments (0)
Back to vybey blogs