About Sungertain

From origin, a 200-day cultivation promise, Shiding farm, and certifications, Sungertain turns reishi into a path people can understand and trust.

Origin

The starting point

This was never a brand built first and explained later. It began because one family needed answers.

Early Sungertain and reishi research photo

The family need came before the brand

In 1972, Yeh Keng-lung's family began farming. That was the family's starting point with the land, not the founding year of the Sungertain brand. "In youth we give our health. In old age, we spend everything trying to get it back." Founder Yeh Keng-lung felt that saying acutely. As Taiwan's economy took off, he moved from a farming background into trade, but when his wife's health began to worsen with recurring colds and fading energy, he started looking for a way to care for family with confidence.

If the real reishi could not be found, he would grow it himself

He went from herb market to herb market, where every specimen looked different in colour, size, and shape, making it impossible to tell what was genuine. Through a careful search, they met Dr. Cheng Long-yen, who had studied occupational pathology at Cambridge University, and the path became clear: if he could not find the real thing, he would grow it himself.

200 Days

He looked everywhere. Then he grew it himself

Drawing on a family's respect for the land, Sungertain chose a slower, fuller path from research to cultivation.

Sungertain team inspecting and observing the reishi cultivation environment

Only the harvest day tells

The fruiting body takes 200 days. Mycelium takes only 10. We chose to wait because richness cannot be rushed into existence. Before dawn, the rounds began. Conditions were checked every three to five hours, and the full 200-day cycle ran from cultivation to harvest, until the harvest moment showed whether those 200 days had truly borne fruit.

Set out under the name Sungertain

In the summer of 1986, Typhoon Wayne struck from an unusual path and tore down the greenhouse wall. Looking at the damaged cultivation room, Yeh Keng-lung saw more than loss. Years of living alongside nature came together in that moment: "When heaven and earth are in harmony, all things flourish. When people are in harmony, prosperity follows from every direction." Respect heaven to grow delicate reishi. Respect people to keep things in harmony. With heaven, earth, and people aligned, the brand finally had a name.

Why Sungertain

Turning the story into reasons to choose

Experience, origin, certification, and continuity are gathered into a clear and readable brand story.

Fruiting body

No shortcuts

We choose full reishi fruiting bodies instead of fast-grown mycelium because the difference in richness and value matters.

Direct from Shiding

Transparent origin

Every step from farm to product happens in Shiding. No middlemen. Full traceability, batch by batch.

Complete certification

The numbers speak

SGS testing, organic certification, and US FDA recognition are not labels we chased. They are the result of the way we already worked.

Nearly forty years

Second generation carrying it forward

From founder Yeh Keng-lung to his son Yeh Chia-hao, the same focus on reishi has passed down as a working promise, not a marketing line.

Shiding Farm

Shiding: reishi's home

Shiding sits in the mountains of New Taipei. The altitude and terrain create steady temperature swings and humidity, while mountain spring water and organic farming methods let reishi mature at its own pace and produce stable fruiting bodies year after year.

Mountain microclimate
Temperature and humidity let reishi mature at its own pace.
Mountain spring water
Clean water and careful land stewardship are the first things the farm protects.
Century-old stone house
The stone house on the farm quietly holds the mountain's history.
Farm experiences
Reishi spa treatments, herbal cuisine, and accommodation invite visitors to slow down and feel reishi from the outside in.

Timeline

Time makes trust take shape

The brand began with research and gradually expanded into cultivation, certification, and succession.

1972

The family begins farming

The family starts with farming, building a long-term understanding of land, seasons, and cultivation. This predates the Sungertain brand.

1986

The Sungertain brand is founded

After Typhoon Wayne, the idea of harmony between heaven, earth, and people gives the brand its name. Sungertain is formally founded in 1986 and begins its continuing work in reishi research and cultivation.

1990s

The Shiding farm is established

The direct-operated farm is formally established in Shiding, bringing cultivation, management, and products into one origin.

2012 / 2014

Tech Agro-Enterprise Excellence Awards

The brand is recognised for reishi extraction and research capabilities.

Recent years

Second-generation succession

Yeh Chia-hao carries the work forward, linking origin, quality, and a newer way of speaking to the market.

Certifications

We were not certified to meet a standard

We were certified because we had always worked this way, and the standards followed.

Certification and testing

Organic certification: full organic cultivation management throughout.
SGS testing: pesticides, heavy metals, and pharmaceutical residues tested batch by batch.
US FDA: recognised exporter.
Polysaccharide content: tested and documented per batch, with results available on request.

Quality promise

Full traceability: every step from breeding and cultivation to harvest and finished goods is recorded.
Regular testing: every batch is tested before it goes to market.
Continuous improvement: production processes are refined based on research and feedback.

Behind every certification is a traceable production process — from spawn to finished product.

See the full production process and lab reports