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NOT AND AD
Yes, we sell botanical terps, but we love canna and hemp derived too… we just can’t rely on those to pass compliance testing all of the time or consistently batch to batch. Three different OG kush strains from 3 different growers that all smell pretty similar will still have wildly different terp profiles at the molecular level, so you really can’t rely on the plant for consistency either.
Also, if you poll your customers you will find that many folks need a discreet option for vape that wont stink up the area, and even the heady consumers who like weed flavors still like to have yummy flavoring options that can provide that discretion for travel, etc, and not leave a harsh or filmy taste in their mouth.
Getting the right flavors is the key though, shallow flavors can really turn people off to the subject as a whole when they are expecting the same quality and flavor of a canna derived terp.
Like @ExTek90 said, most terp companies are getting away with a “close enough” approach using about 5 or maybe even a dozen isolated terpenes to flavor strain profiles and just giving the rest of us a bad name (we are using over 40 isolates for strain blends and access to over 3000 individual isolates).
We are not only flavor experts but we are taking the strain profiles a lot more seriously than most companies too, I think you should give them both a try to see the difference.
The most obvious difference to me is that our parent company has been supplying the food and beverage industry with flavors and essential oils for over 100 years. Now we have brought those flavors over to the cannabis world, not tried to match them with our best guessing. One of the first customers was Wrigley gum and we sourced their Spearmint for them.
So if you truly want a “fruit punch” flavor that tastes exactly like the Capri Sun version and not a random bunch of candy flavors… I have that real flavor for you.
Bomb Pop popsicles… you wont believe me until you smell this one yourself, so many memories in a little sample bottle!
The andes style mint and chocolate flavor as well as the Bavarian Custard are so accurate that you will have to stop yourself from slathering them on a donut before you can get them into your products.
We are truly sourcing the natural components from all around the world and using flavor scientists to produce strain blends and flavors with these terpenes that also contain natural aromatic materials such as esters, aldehydes and ketones, in addition to the terpenes, to get a much richer and more elite experience. All tested for compliance in a GMP certified facility. Can cannabis and hemp growers guarantee that kind of crop consistency and QC batch to batch?
The service is going to be the next most important factor because we are all starting to find that our distillate and BHO is all compliant and pesticide free, ready for the market, and then a lot of these canna terp and flavor add-back companies have banned molecules or unknown volatiles inside, or no COAs or SDS sheets at all to speak of. They won’t be allowed into a reputable lab when the world switches to “fully legal” and starts demanding compliance testing from every processor.
We can batch test to produce CoAs on custom blends to match your own strains you are growing. We can custom blend and private label for consistent results that aren’t relying on a good crop harvest.
Many pharmaceutical companies buy these isolates from us for FDA and DEA approved medicines… so I think that is a good starting point for building trust in us for the canna markets, even if you are still offering canna derived terp products also.
Oh, and yes, if you need to place an order through me for flavors or blends you already know you need, please always include a list of some samples you want to try too and I’ll definitely get them added to the order!
