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Plain, sourced writing about dandelion, chicory, and the caffeine-free cup. Where a claim has a human study behind it, this site says so. Where it doesn’t, it says that too.

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Illustration of a circle split in half, a yellow dandelion flower on one side and a blue chicory flower on the other

the house cup

Half dandelion, half chicory: the 50/50 blend

Chicory has been roasted into coffee for two and a half centuries, and pairing it with dandelion root is a long-standing combination. Both fresh plants go on one tray, get ground together and boiled together. The whole method, from the grocery run to the bottle in the fridge.

Recipe · 7 min read · Sep 3, 2026 Read →

Illustration of a blue chicory flower above its long green taproot

the one everyone gets wrong

Chicory root benefits, without the hype

Raw chicory root is about 68% inulin. Roasted chicory is under 20%. Nearly every prebiotic claim made about chicory coffee quietly ignores that sentence — and there is still plenty of good reason to drink it.

Benefits · 8 min read Read →

Illustration of a dandelion seed head beside a yellow dandelion flower with toothed leaves

the honest version

Dandelion benefits: what’s actually in the root and the leaf

Every claim, labelled by what it actually rests on — measured composition, a human trial, a rat, a petri dish, or 500 years of tradition. Including the two famous claims that do not survive the reading.

Benefits · 7 min read Read →

side by side

Dandelion vs chicory vs coffee: an honest comparison

Taste, caffeine, cost, gut effects and evidence quality, in one table and then in detail. Including the part where coffee wins, because it does.

Compare · 8 min read Read →

how these posts are written

Every claim
gets a label

Most writing about herbs blurs the line between a measured fact, a rat study, and something people have simply always said. These posts keep them apart, because a plant this good does not need the exaggeration.

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The whole bundle, one tray, dark and crunchy. The method that actually works.

Why any of this exists

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A throat infection, a brutal week of withdrawal, and a plant nobody had mentioned before.

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