Super Speciosa Review
Super Speciosa started the way a lot of great companies do: two close friends, one scale and a stack of shipping labels. In 2016, Ken Loricchio and Aaron Circhansky started bagging kratom by hand in Florida and driving the day’s orders to the post office themselves. Their best-known leaf powders are single strains, like Green Maeng Da and Red Bali. And the label on the bag carries a QR code that opens the lab reports, called COAs, for the exact batch in your hand.
We carry Super Speciosa, and we’re grateful for it. The company calls its published lab reports a thank you. They’re for the customers who trusted it back when it had no reputation at all. That’s a lovely way to think about a lab report. So this page says thank you right back.
Who started Super Speciosa?
Two friends who wanted kratom done right.
Ken came from a background in compliance and finance. Aaron was his close friend, and the two started Super Speciosa together in 2016. They called the idea kratom with a conscience. The rule behind it was simple. If you are asking someone to trust what’s in a bag, you owe them proof, not promises.
For a while it was just the two of them, bagging, sealing and hauling boxes. By the company’s tenth birthday in August 2026, it counted three warehouses and more than sixty people on the team.
Where does the name come from?
Straight from the plant.
Kratom’s botanical name is Mitragyna speciosa. Put “Super” in front of the second half and you have a brand name that tells you exactly what is inside. The company behind the brand is legally called Super Organics. Remember that name. It shows up again in a very unexpected place further down this page.
Why did Super Speciosa build its own machines?
Because the machines it needed didn’t exist yet.
Kratom is a fine powder with quirks all its own. Equipment made for other industries kept choking on it. One of the co-founders is an engineer, so he did what engineers do. He built mills, mixers and fill lines from scratch, designed around one plant. The company’s own machines weigh and heat-seal each pouch, which keeps human handling to a minimum. When the right way didn’t exist, they built it. We love that.
What does the QR code on a Super Speciosa bag do?
It takes you to the lab report for your exact batch.
Scan it, and the batch number on your label matches the batch number on the certificate. Super Speciosa was one of the first kratom companies to put a code like that on its packaging. Its reports check that the leaf is what it claims to be. They look for adulterants, and for microbes such as E. coli, salmonella and mold. They test for lead, cadmium, mercury and arsenic. And they measure the alkaloids, so the label can say what’s really inside. Our lab tests page links to Super Speciosa’s reports, and Kratom Lab Testing explains how to read one.
Those public reports have traveled further than anyone might guess. A 2023 peer-reviewed study used Super Speciosa certificates to compare six of its powders side by side. Maeng Da vs Bali Kratom walks through what those numbers showed.
How did Super Speciosa end up in an FDA study?
Its kratom went into the capsules the FDA used.
The FDA sponsored a pilot trial of kratom leaf in people, and it ran from August 2023 to January 2024. The trial’s own protocol, posted on ClinicalTrials.gov, names the maker of the kratom capsules as Super Organics. That is the company behind Super Speciosa. The company says its leaf went first to researchers at the University of Florida. They ran their own round of testing, then passed it on to the lab that ran the trial. Kratom research covers what the trial set out to learn.
The company tells a great story about the day the results were presented. It was at the University of Florida’s kratom symposium in Orlando, in February 2024. Ken was on the phone in the hallway when the FDA’s talk began. Joey Levin, the company’s quality manager, pulled him into the room. Ken felt a moment of panic, then realized his company was about to be at the center of the whole event. Aaron said the memory can put a grin on his face, alone in his car on the way to work.
Who checks Super Speciosa’s work?
Outside auditors, and more than one of them.
In 2019, Super Speciosa became one of the first companies qualified under the American Kratom Association’s manufacturing program. It says the qualification cost money and won it no quick sales. It also says it would do it again tomorrow. Our page on AKA GMP Qualified kratom explains what that inspection covers. Who the American Kratom Association is has its own page.
In 2026, it went a step further. Its facilities passed a third-party audit and earned cGMP certification for its powder and capsule production. cGMP stands for current Good Manufacturing Practice, the federal rulebook for making consumer goods the same way every time.
Where does Super Speciosa draw its lines?
At 7-OH, and at anything it can’t prove.
Super Speciosa has never sold 7-OH products and says it never will. Ken put it plainly: the company doesn’t sell 7-OH because it doesn’t think there’s enough safety data behind it. He has also said the company wants kratom regulated, and wants the whole trade taken seriously as a legitimate industry. We stand with them. We have never sold 7-OH products and we do not defend them. Kratom Extract explains how a concentrated product differs from the leaf.
The company is careful with its customers, too. Its site warns that kratom may interact with SSRIs, SNRIs, antipsychotic drugs and other prescription drugs. It tells people not to use kratom at all while taking any prescription medication. And it sells only to adults 21 and over. That is a brand that would rather lose a sale than lose a customer’s trust.
Thank you, Super Speciosa
Ken and Aaron started with a scale and a stack of labels, and they never let the proof fall behind the promises. They built their own machines, put a QR code on the bag, sent their leaf into the FDA’s own kratom trial, and kept thanking their customers the whole way. The company calls its lab reports a favor it can never quite repay. From where we sit, the favor runs the other way.
Every Super Speciosa product we carry is on our Super Speciosa page. Thank you, Super Speciosa. Here’s to the next ten years.
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