Posted by Kava and kratom drinks are a fast, easy way to take kratom with the additional benefits of kava. Yes, there are a ton of kratom vendors. But finding vendors that offer both kratom and kava products is not as plentiful.
That limits how many choices you have when it comes to vendors. Even so, you might not know what it takes for a vendor to tick off all the right boxes for a potential customer like you.
This is a comparison review of Real Botanicals vs. Mitra9. They both offer kratom and kava drinks, but each vendor takes a different approach. Learn about what makes their product special, here.
Company Backgrounds
Real Botanicals: The company focuses on providing wellness products to support a balanced lifestyle. Energy, relaxation, mood, and clarity are the main benefits of Real Botanicals products. Founded in 2021, they are meticulous in their approach to efficient, clean, potent, consistent products for direct consumers and wholesalers.
Mitra9: Functionality, efficiency, and a sense of well-being are the goals of Mitra9 products. Founded in 2021, they sought to provide beverages beyond refreshment alone. Their goal is to offer products that fit any lifestyle, and work with affiliates, influencers, and wholesalers.
Sourcing and Manufacturing Practices
Real Botanicals: Real Botanicals sources from select regions in Southeast Asia and the South Pacific, where growers cultivate, harvest, and choose the best-quality kratom leaves. After they process the kratom leaves with washing and drying, the company handles the manufacturing to extract the active ingredients and clean them at the same time.
Mitra9: Mitra9 crafts their products with care to showcase taste in a variety of flavors, as well as function that gives different effects. There isn’t information on their sourcing and manufacturing practices, leaving me to assume they adhere to typical good standards in the unregulated market of kratom.
Quality Control and Product Testing
Real Botanicals: Real Botanicals has a hands-on approach to quality control from start to finish. Rather than using the extraction process as a multi-step method where filtering out contaminants is done separately, they use their patented ChromaPure technology in their private SC lab.
Mitra9: Mitra9 engages in independent, third-party lab testing with Certificates of Analysis (COAs). Although they are not AKA or GMP-compliant – a voluntary certification – they do testing through GMP-certified facilities.
Product Line
Real Botanicals: Kratom and kava shots were part of Real Botanicals’ initial products along with kratom capsules. Then, they eventually offered 7-OH chewable tablets and shots, mushroom chewable tablets, and 7-OH alternatives Pseudo and Oxonol. With the kratom and kava shots, you get to choose from more kratom or more kava depending on if you prefer more focus and energy or more calm and stress relief.
Mitra9: Kratom and kava beverage lovers can enjoy every way to drink Mitra9’s botanical beverages with unique benefits like calm or energy. Check out their kratom seltzers, drink mixes, and shots, kava seltzers, drink mixes, and shots, and kratom and kava shots. Prefer customizing your kratom and kava together? Consider purchasing kratom and kava products separately to mix things up.
Shopping, Pricing, and Refund Policy
Real Botanicals: There’s no hunting through a website maze here – Real Botanicals has a simple website design with a menu bar rather than drop-down options. The simple colors of red and white on their website reflect in their discreet product packaging. Pricing is affordable with a moderate price point some might consider a little costly, but it’s well worth it. You can also use the locator to find retailers with their products in NC and SC. They offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. Also, you get discounts when you sign up for the newsletter.
Mitra9: Kratom, Kava, and Kratom + Kava products are Mitra9’s main categories in a drop-down menu at the top of the website. From there, you can view beverage options for each. There’s also a locator for retailers that carry their products near you. As for pricing, it’s expensive – the justification being convenience, flavor, and innovative formulations. Mitra9 has a rewards program, newsletter, and subscription discounts as well as limited-time offers, clearance sales, and bundle deals. Customers get to request a return or exchange within 24 hours of receiving their order.
The Verdict
Kratom and kratom with kava products are increasingly popular as users want not only kratom, but formulations that include kava and other nootropics or botanicals. The kratom and kava shot reigns supreme as the “best of both worlds” in an easy-to-take liquid that has a rapid onset – a product that’s best for experienced users because of how powerful it is.
With that being said, Real Botanicals and Mitra9 have different products in terms of formulations and flavors. Real Botanicals offers kratom capsules as well as kratom and kava shots, with the kratom and kava shots having options where either kratom or kava predominate for the right balance. Mitra9 focuses on a variety of beverage options and flavors with kratom and kava shots and seltzers, drink mixes, and shots as options for kratom and kava separately. So while Real Botanicals gives you more ways to take kratom, Mitra9 gives you more beverage options for kava.
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