diff --git a/R/condense.R b/R/condense.R
index dd2bda0..b5ca1da 100644
--- a/R/condense.R
+++ b/R/condense.R
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ setMethod(
   signature = "CompositionMatrix",
   definition = function(x, by, verbose = FALSE, ...) {
     x <- group(x, by = by)
-    methods::callGeneric(x = x, verbose = verbose, ...)
+    y <- methods::callGeneric(x = x, verbose = verbose, ...)
+    ungroup(y)
   }
 )
 
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/_snaps/condense.rds b/inst/tinytest/_snaps/condense.rds
index 615f982..bbfa236 100644
Binary files a/inst/tinytest/_snaps/condense.rds and b/inst/tinytest/_snaps/condense.rds differ
diff --git a/inst/tinytest/test_condense.R b/inst/tinytest/test_condense.R
index 694b0eb..9a9c082 100644
--- a/inst/tinytest/test_condense.R
+++ b/inst/tinytest/test_condense.R
@@ -1,12 +1,21 @@
 data("slides")
-coda <- as_composition(slides, groups = 2)
+coda <- as_composition(slides)
 
-## Compositional mean by sample
+## Ungrouped
+flat <- condense(coda, by = slides$analyst)
+expect_false(is_grouped(flat))
+expect_identical(rownames(flat), paste0("A", 1:5))
+
+## Compositional mean by group
+coda <- group(coda, by = slides$analyst)
 flat <- condense(coda)
-expect_equal_to_reference(as.data.frame(flat), file = "_snaps/condense.rds")
+expect_identical(group_names(flat), paste0("A", 1:5))
 
 ## Override groups
-flat <- condense(coda, by = slides$analyst)
+flat <- condense(coda, by = slides$slide)
+expect_identical(rownames(flat), c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E"))
+expect_identical(group_names(flat), rep(paste0("A", 1:5, collapse = ":"), 5))
+expect_equal_to_reference(as.data.frame(flat), file = "_snaps/condense.rds")
 
 ## With zeros
 X1 <- data.frame(