Has anyone tried dissolving their gummies into a glass of water to see what happens? My gummies are completely soluble in every type of liquid I’ve tested them on. Are pectin gummies made with nano-emulsions water soluble? I’m asking because I see a gummy as a perfect infusion device. I was thinking of doing a line of gummies designed to be used to infuse things rather than eat
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It gives the drink a slimy texture in my experience trying it with gelatin gummies, not super palatable.
Wouldn’t it be more convenient to just make a nano product and use that to infuse anything? Either in liquid form with a known dose or as a powder form with a known dose. Why infuse a gummy just to add all of those extra components to it, just to melt it down to infuse something else?
I guess I don’t understand the application. If you are infusing a liquid why not just create a liquid nano emulsion to mix in, skip making the gummy altogether. It’s just an extra step with extra inputs and costs.
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Shelf life would be the focus. Liquids degrade nano carriers over time and make them less effective. A gummy could store perfect tech for years and then be used when needed
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A fully water soluble smoke flavored gummy wedged onto the rim of an old fashioned is quite tasty
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Yeah I meant pectin gummies. I would imagine gelatin doesn’t work well in any liquid
That’s fair, but a solid liquid formula should still be stable as a nano for at least 1-2 years. My nano mixture I use to infuse is coming up to a year shelf life now with no microbial growth and no signs of losing potency or its fast acting efficacy.
I’m just thinking from a product perspective, you’re adding an entire product as the in-between from start to end, which is the gummy, there’s just a lot of extra costs that would get pushed to the consumer. I don’t know why someone would need to make product now they wouldn’t consume for 10 years down the road, just sounds very odd to me that’s all.
In any event, I think you can dissolve pectin in water, it’s water soluble, but I don’t know about once it has solidified. Once you set pectin, at least from a heat source, it’s extremely thermostable and won’t melt, I would be surprised if it dissolves any easier than it melts but I have some pectin gummies at home I can try to dissolve one or two if you need someone to do a quick test for you.
In theory this would be a boofable gummy as well right
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Absolutely. Everything is technically boofable
I already know that my gummies are completely water soluble so everything in a pectin Gummy should be soluble. I’m just curious how well nano blends retain their properties when put into a product and then re-dissolved into liquids. Hell, even my brownies are water soluble. I guess I’d be curious to see all types of nano edibles dissolved into water. Also, I have yet to feel anything but slightly improved potency and maybe a 50% reduction in onset time using commonly available nano-emulsions. Do you notice a difference in nano edibles as opposed to standard edibles?
Also, my formulas aren’t nano. I use a technique I developed that’s quite a bit different than most of what I’ve seen out there. I would test this theory myself but i just don’t have any nano edibles
I’d like a boofable gummie cause it was embarrassing when I cut my butthole with a broken glass dropper.
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I think you need my gummy on a string, it can be removed and reinserted til you get your kicks. The citric acid content shouldn’t be an issue if you start eating at taco bell twice daily
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everyone here says we need new innovative products and you sir have a great idea.
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You could make them into fun boofable shapes
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I disagree with the first two sentences.
Gummies are still technically a liquid (at least in this case), it’s a hydrocolloid gel, but the water is still able to degrade your bioactive and excipients just as well as regular aqueous formulations. Gummies might actually be worse since they typically contain acid which can accelerate degradation, and often contain hydrophobic regions that can facilitate Oswalt ripening, which is the main destabilizing process for nano-emulsions
Liquid nano-emulsion formulations should be stable for 6 months-2 years if formulated/post processed correctly, pasteurized, stored in amber glass and sparged with argon. With the way hemp and cannabis markets are the name of the game seems to be move quickly as prices seem to go down over time, so likely no use stockpiling a depreciating asset.
You may want to consider a dry nano-emulsion formulations; it is difficult to dry nano-emulsion formulations, and especially difficult to maintain a small median droplet size, but powders are inherently microbially stable and backfilling with dry nitrogen/argon can get you a pretty long shelf life.
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I already make dry lipid based powders but I like the idea of gummies as an infusion device. I have all types of mediums with long shelf life. Gummies just seem to be popular and they can suspend my lipid wafer formulas. I don’t make nano emulsions. I do a totally different style of lipid delivery that behaves different than nano emulsions. I don’t have small particle size but I create drastically faster delivery than nanotized particles. I use a wafer system to deliver aggregate clusters of molecules. I’m honestly just curious if anyone is making a water soluble gummy at this point. It would also be nice to have an infusion device that can be eaten by itself or added to food.
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But I do agree with the idea of not stockpiling depreciating assets
I’ve had clients use powdered nano-emulsion formulations in gummies before, the issue is the amount they were going for made the gummies too bitter to be palletable since the normal dose is 10mg 12 oz (355ml). 10mg in a 5g gummy is like 600x more bitter. I know you are looking for it as a delivery. Usually when it says nano and it doesn’t taste bitter, it’s not actually nano lol. Not always, but the onset is usually how I judge.