Bright AM
The morning supplement for ages 6 to 17. Saffron, honey and a probiotic to start the day.
- Mood
- Gut
- Immune
- Supports a steady mood through the day.*
- Clinically studied saffron: 14 mg of affron in every sachet.*
- A good source of vitamin C, which contributes to the normal immune system function, normal energy metabolism and the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
*Studies conducted on individual ingredients, not on Saffiome as a finished product. Individual results may vary.
Made for our own kids first.
Complete the routine
Morning and evening together costs less than two singles, and the subscription less again.
Kids Day + Night Bundle: 30 morning and 30 evening sachets for $119 every 30 days, $19 less than two singles. First 100 families: Founders Rate, $99 every 30 days.
See the Kids Day + Night BundleBright AM
$79
Pairs with
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PMDream PM
The evening supplement for ages 6 to 17. Saffron, tart cherry, chamomile and lemon balm.
30 serves per pouch
See Dream PM
The routine
One to start the day, one to end it. That is the whole routine.
AMMorning
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Bright AM to start the day
One sachet when the day starts. Straight from the sachet, off a spoon, or stirred into porridge or yoghurt. No food needed. Part of getting out the door. Supports a steady mood through the day.*
PMEvening
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Dream PM to end the day
One sachet in the early evening, about an hour before bed. The evening one, with tart cherry, chamomile and lemon balm, and Lactobacillus brevis, a fifth probiotic species for the evening. Supports a calmer evening and better-quality sleep.*
*Studies conducted on individual ingredients, not on Saffiome as a finished product. Individual results may vary.
- Kids and teens 6 to 17
- 30 sachets per pouch, about 30 days
- No pills, no chewing, no mixing
- Same taste, same texture, every day
- No preservatives, additives, dyes or artificial flavours.
- Every ingredient named, with its amount
- Skip, pause or cancel any time
- Made on the Gold Coast
What we left out
What's not in it
For a lot of kids, what is missing matters as much as what is there.
- No dyes or artificial colours
- No artificial flavours
- No pills, capsules or gummies to chew
- No caffeine, in either kids' sachet
- No powders to mix or shakers to wash
What the research shows
The numbers, and where they come from.
Saffiome is built around affron, a standardised saffron extract with eleven published placebo-controlled trials in more than 1,000 people, at the same daily amount the teen trial used: 14 mg to start the day, 14 mg to end it. The studies were on the ingredients, so every number below carries an asterisk.
One sachet is half the routine. The trials used saffron morning and evening, 28 mg a day, so pair this sachet with its partner or choose the bundle.
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33%affron group
compared with
17%placebo group
Drop in worry and low-mood symptoms
8-week trial, teens 12 to 16
14 mg of affron twice a day, the Saffiome routine. More than a third had their scores at least halve, against about one in nine on placebo.*
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11 trialsPublished placebo-controlled trials of affron
More than 1,000 people
Including the only trial in teenagers. Two sachets a day match its daily amount and its morning-and-evening split.*
See all the research numbers
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72.3%affron group
compared with
54.3%placebo group
Had a meaningful lift in mood score
12-week trial, 202 adults with low mood
28 mg of affron a day.*
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Better sleep quality
28-day trial, 120 adults with poor sleep
14 mg of affron before bed improved sleep quality ratings against placebo. A second 28-day trial of 63 adults found the same on 14 mg twice a day.*
*Studies conducted on individual ingredients, not on Saffiome as a finished product. Individual results may vary.
Ingredients
Every ingredient, with its amount and its reason
Saffron, in two forms affron saffron extract: 14 mg per sachet Fermented saffron: 100 mg (providing 5 mg saffron) per sachet
affron saffron extract
14 mg per sachet
The studied saffron
A standardised extract of saffron stigma, 3.5% Lepticrosalides, the extract used in eleven placebo-controlled trials. Two sachets a day is 28 mg, the daily amount the teen trial used.
From: Spain
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Fermented saffron
100 mg (providing 5 mg saffron) per sachet
Saffron, transformed
Whole saffron fermented by a live culture on the Gold Coast. Five per cent of it is saffron; the rest is the postbiotic, the cells and metabolites the fermentation made.
From: Fermented on the Gold Coast
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Australian honey and Manuka Australian honey: 80% of the base per sachet Australian Manuka honey, certified MGO 250+: 20% of the base per sachet
Australian honey
80% of the base per sachet
The base
Eighty per cent of every sachet, from a family-owned Queensland honey house. It carries everything else, and it is the reason kids take it without a fight.
From: Queensland, Australia
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Australian Manuka honey, certified MGO 250+
20% of the base per sachet
The graded part of the base
Twenty per cent of the honey base is Australian Manuka from Leptospermum nectar, certified MGO 250+ on every batch. The grade describes the Manuka, not the whole sachet.
From: Queensland, Australia
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Probiotics xoBiome MoodBalance probiotic: 100 mg per sachet
xoBiome MoodBalance probiotic
100 mg per sachet
The live cultures
A multi-strain probiotic of four species, Lactobacillus helveticus, L. plantarum, L. rhamnosus and Bifidobacterium breve, in all four sachets: 100 mg for kids and 200 mg for adults. The evening sachets add a fifth species on its own, Lactobacillus brevis.
From: Made on the Gold Coast
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Vitamin C, from acerola cherry Vitamin C, from acerola cherry: 10 mg vitamin C (about 75 mg acerola powder) per sachet
Vitamin C, from acerola cherry
10 mg vitamin C (about 75 mg acerola powder) per sachet
The daily vitamin
Vitamin C from acerola cherry powder in Bright AM (kids) and Rise AM (adults): about a quarter of the daily intake for kids and teens, about half for adults. Vitamin C contributes to normal psychological function and to the normal functioning of the nervous system.
From: Acerola cherry
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Every ingredient named, with its amount. No blends, no hidden numbers.
The base
Honey that is more than a sweetener.
Read about honey and Manuka
Every sachet is built on honey: 80% Australian honey and 20% Australian Manuka certified MGO 250+. Not syrup, not sweeteners. Honey is the reason a six-year-old takes the sachet, and it brings its own prebiotic story.
80% of the baseAustralian honey
Real honey that feeds the good bacteria in your gut.*
Genuine 100% Australian honey from a family-owned Queensland honey house that has kept bees for more than thirty years. Honey's natural oligosaccharides feed Bifidobacteria and Lactobacilli in laboratory studies, and honey grew ten to a hundred times more lactobacilli than sugar in the lab, with higher counts in animals fed honey rather than sugar.* That is why the base is honey and not syrup.
Honey is also one of the few foods with placebo-controlled trials in young children: in two trials of children kept up by a cough, parents rated their child's sleep better after a spoon of honey before bed than after placebo.*
Read more about Australian honey
Sanz 2005; Shamala 2000; Cohen 2012; Paul 2007. About 6 g of natural sugars per sachet, with or without food.
20% of the baseAustralian Manuka
Certified MGO 250+, a grade you can check
One fifth of the honey is Australian Manuka, made by bees working the flowers of Leptospermum, a native tree of Australia and New Zealand. Its grade is a number: MGO 250+ means at least 250 milligrams of methylglyoxal per kilogram, certified on every batch, at the threshold of the grade most people know as UMF 10+.
Manuka is studied for its effect on gut bacteria. In a four-week human trial, 20 g a day of high-grade Manuka left the gut's beneficial bacteria undisturbed, and in the lab Manuka supported Bifidobacterium growth in probiotic milk.* We use it for what it is: a premium, tested honey that belongs in a gut-brain routine.
Read more about Australian Manuka honey, certified MGO 250+
Wallace 2010; Ibrahim 2026; Cokcetin 2016 for the MGO facts. MGO 250+ describes the Manuka, not the whole sachet.
*Studies conducted on individual ingredients, not on Saffiome as a finished product. Individual results may vary. Laboratory and animal studies unless stated.
xoBiome MoodBalance
Five probiotic species. Each with a gut-brain story.
Meet the five probiotic species
xoBiome MoodBalance supports the gut-brain connection, where mood and digestion meet.* The gut and the brain talk all day, through the vagus nerve, through hormones and through the immune system, and the bacteria in the gut join that conversation. xoBiome MoodBalance is a multi-strain probiotic built for it, developed and made on the Gold Coast: four species, 100 mg in every kids' sachet. Dream PM adds a fifth species on its own, Lactobacillus brevis, 52 mg.
- Both sachets
The famous pairing
Lactobacillus helveticus
One half of the most-studied psychobiotic pairing in the research. In a 30-day placebo-controlled trial, healthy adults taking L. helveticus with a Bifidobacterium had lower psychological distress scores and lower stress hormone in their urine than the placebo group.*
Messaoudi 2011 (L. helveticus R0052 with B. longum R0175).
- Both sachets
The vagus nerve study
Lactobacillus rhamnosus
The species behind the study that started the gut-brain field. In mice, L. rhamnosus changed the brain's calming GABA receptors and lowered stress hormones, and the effect disappeared when the vagus nerve was cut.* In a New Zealand trial of 423 mothers, L. rhamnosus HN001 through pregnancy meant lower low-mood and worry scores after the birth.*
Bravo 2011 (JB-1, mice); Slykerman 2017 (HN001).
- Both sachets
The stress study
Lactobacillus plantarum
A species found naturally in fermented foods like sauerkraut and sourdough. In 111 stressed adults, L. plantarum DR7 for 12 weeks lowered stress and worry scores and the stress hormone cortisol against placebo.*
Chong 2019 (DR7). Full study details are in our hub.
- Both sachets
The memory and mood one
Bifidobacterium breve
In a 16-week placebo-controlled trial of 80 older adults, B. breve A1 improved memory and thinking scores against placebo, with no adverse events.* In a 4-week trial of 45 adults with low mood, B. breve CCFM1025 improved mood scores against placebo, alongside changes in the gut's tryptophan chemistry.*
Xiao 2020 (A1); Tian 2022 (CCFM1025).
- Dream PM only
The evening species
Lactobacillus brevis
The GABA maker. Of 91 human gut bacteria tested, L. brevis was the most efficient producer of GABA, the brain's main calming messenger, converting up to 90% of its raw material.* That is why it is in the evening sachet and not the morning one. Dream PM carries 52 mg of it, on top of MoodBalance.
Barrett 2012 (DPC6108).
- How to read this
Honest note
Species, strains and what we can say
Probiotic research is strain-specific: the research on each card above used named strains of that species.
Read more about xoBiome MoodBalance probiotic
Read the gut-brain research in The Gut-Brain Connection hub.
*Studies on the species, or on particular strains of it, not on xoBiome MoodBalance or on Saffiome.

A note from Regan
I made Saffiome for my own kids first.
I made Saffiome for my own kids first. Two little honey sachets, one to start the day and one to end it, with ingredients I'd actually read the studies on and nothing I wouldn't give my own girls. No preservatives, no additives, no junk.
It fits right in with what you already do. Whatever your family already does stays. This just fits into two moments you already have.
Regan Merka, founder
Who is behind it
- From the founder of Burleigh WagonRegan Merka designed Burleigh Wagon, the Gold Coast beach wagon you may have seen on Shark Tank Australia.
- Premier of Queensland Export AwardsBurleigh Wagon, Regan's first company: e-Commerce winner in 2022 and Emerging Exporter finalist in 2024.
- Made in AustraliaDeveloped and made on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
- Peer-reviewed ingredientsFormulated from ingredients studied in peer-reviewed research.
- Gold Coast Bulletin Women of the Year 2024Founder Regan Merka, entrepreneur category winner, 2024.
- Gold Coast Women in Business Awards 2024Regan Merka, Rising Star (Small Business) winner, October 2024.
Real reviews arrive with the first families.
Saffiome opens with 100 Founders Rate places on the Kids Day + Night Bundle. Those families will be the first to review it, and we will publish every review we are allowed to, good and bad.
What to expect
Give it the time the studies gave it.
Saffiome is a daily supplement, not a switch. The trials measured change at four, eight and twelve weeks, so that is the honest timeline.
- Days 1 to 14
The routine settles in.
Two sachets, start and end of the day. Most kids take to the honey on day one. The win in the first fortnight is that it happens without a fight, and that it happens every day.
- Week 4
The first point the adult trials measured a change.
At four weeks, adults with low mood scored better on mood than placebo at 28 mg of affron a day, and adults with poor sleep rated their sleep quality better.*
- Week 8
The point the teen trial measured its result.
At eight weeks on 14 mg twice a day, teens aged 12 to 16 reported a 33% drop in worry and low-mood symptoms against 17% on placebo. More than a third had their scores at least halve, against about one in nine on placebo.*
- Week 12
The point the largest adult trial measured its result.
At twelve weeks, 72.3% of adults on 28 mg a day had a meaningful lift in mood score against 54.3% on placebo.* No trial ran longer, so we promise nothing past it. Most families keep the routine because it is easy, not because a calendar says so.
*Studies conducted on individual ingredients, not on Saffiome as a finished product. Individual results may vary.

Where it fits
Fits right in with what you already do.
Saffiome is the morning and night routine that fits around everything your family already does. OT, psych, school supports, medication if you use it: all of that stays. Saffiome is two sachets, one to start the day and one to end it. It does not replace anything, and it does not ask you to change anything else.
If your child takes prescribed medication, show your prescriber the ingredient list before you start. It is all on this page.
Questions parents ask
Can my child take Saffiome alongside ADHD medication?
Saffiome is a supplement in a honey sachet: saffron, a probiotic, and evening herbs in the evening sachet. It does not replace anything already in place for your child: medication, OT, psych or school supports. Every child is different, so if your child takes prescribed medication, check with your prescriber before adding anything new, and take the ingredient list with you. Every ingredient and amount is on this page.
Is Saffiome suitable for autistic kids?
Saffiome is for all kids and teens aged 6 to 17, and we built it as a neurodivergent family. In practice that means one flavour, the same texture every day, no dyes, no artificial flavours, no pills and no chewing. It is not a treatment for autism or for anything else. If your child has sensory sensitivities, the next question covers what to expect.
Is it OK for kids with sensory sensitivities?
One flavour. Smooth honey with no bits, so the texture is the same every day. No dyes, no artificial flavours, no pills, no chewing, no fizzing, no mixing. A small sachet to start the day and one to end it, so the routine is predictable. If a new texture is hard for your child, start with the sachet stirred into something they already eat.
My child is a very fussy eater. Will they take it?
It is honey. Most kids take honey. It comes in one flavour, tastes the same every day, and goes on a spoon, into porridge or yoghurt, or straight from the sachet. Bright AM also carries vitamin C, which contributes to iron absorption from food. If your child will not take it, our 30-day guarantee covers you.
The studies were in teens and adults. What about younger kids?
True, and we will not pretend otherwise. The saffron extract in Saffiome, affron, has eleven published placebo-controlled trials in more than 1,000 people, and the youngest participants were 12 to 16. Saffiome uses the same daily amount that trial used, split the same way. There is no placebo-controlled trial of affron in children under 12. The evening herbs have studies in children under 12, but as a blend with valerian and without a placebo group. Bright AM and Dream PM are for 6 to 17: the teen trial's daily amount is exactly what two kids' sachets deliver. From 18, Rise AM and Restore PM. Every study is listed in The Gut-Brain Connection hub, so you can read them yourself.
Will this help my child sleep?
We cannot promise that, and no honest supplement company can. What we can tell you: in two placebo-controlled trials, adults with poor sleep rated their sleep quality better on affron, and the evening sachet carries tart cherry, chamomile and lemon balm, each with sleep or calm studies in adults.* Dream PM goes in the early evening, about an hour before bed, and your bedtime routine stays exactly as it is.
How much sugar is in it?
Each kids' sachet is about a teaspoon of honey: about 6 g of sugar, all of it from the honey. Two sachets a day come to about 12.5 g, around three teaspoons of sugar. That is the honey doing its job as the food that carries everything else. Bright AM in the morning, Dream PM in the early evening about an hour before bed, so it is done before teeth are brushed.
When do we take them?
Bright AM when the day starts. Dream PM in the early evening, about an hour before bed. No food needed, and your bedtime routine stays exactly as it is.
Can I buy Bright AM or Dream PM on its own?
Yes. Each pouch is $79 one-off or $69 every 30 days on subscription. The Kids Day + Night Bundle brings both together for $149 one-off or $119 every 30 days, which is less than two singles. One thing to know: the teen trial used saffron morning and evening, 28 mg a day. One sachet is half that, so the bundle is the routine the research was built on.
How does the subscription work?
A new delivery every 30 days, charged to the card you choose at checkout. You can skip a delivery, pause or cancel any time from your account. No lock-in and no cancellation fee.
What is the Founders Rate?
The first 100 families who subscribe to the Kids Day + Night Bundle when orders open get the Founders Rate: $99 every 30 days for each bundle, and that price holds for as long as the subscription stays active. A family takes one place however many bundles it orders, so a family subscribing for two kids pays $99 for each of their two bundles. If you cancel and come back later, you rejoin at the price of the day.
Guarantee, shipping and questions
30-Day Money Back Guarantee
Not right for your family? Email us within 30 days of delivery and send it back, and we will make it right. One refund per product per household, and return postage is yours.
Shipping
Free standard shipping on orders $95 and over, so every bundle ships free. A single pouch ships for $9.95. Orders open at launch.
Questions?
The FAQ covers the common ones. For anything else, email us.



