Sprayed breath mints discoloration

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Have you tried your sop on other mints with same result?

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This is probably from oxidization of the oils, the food dehydrator/time may be causing it.
These oxidizing spots are probably hot spots as @cbdbulk points out.

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could this be tested with the use of an antioxidant? @Soxhlet

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maybe the alcohol is beading up on the outer layer of the mint? then once its eats though the outside it settles in those spots?

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I like that train of thought too, it could very well be the mint oils themselves.
@cbdbulk you could try it? there could be other things afoot as well.

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Find blue or green mints so the spotting isn’t so obvious

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Or intentionally include spots all over (I have so done this for non-CBD/cannabis foods). There is a reason things have fancy colors.

I’m sure there’s lots of other methods and reasons. When I get unexpected spotting, I always first think contamination and then I think shelf stability. Seems like most responses here are pointing to shelf stability. If you can spray on a piece of parchment paper and never see these issues, I’d point to shelf stability as well. If you cannot - well then your formulation has the undesirables in it and its either the apparatus or the formulation itself.

Good luck - let us know how it turns out.

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spray on some food coloring. Pizzazz’d

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Im actually using isolate since these are for a heavily regulated overseas market. The discoloration actually penetrates a good way into the mint if you scrape off layer by layer.

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Now that I keep hearing this im going to look into it.

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It does really really look like rust up close. This will happen even if its not stored in a metal container. Im not using distillate but I guess it could be residual mother liquor in the isolate. I think it is rust im going to try dissolving the isolate into MCT and apply that both brushing and spraying tonight in case its the ethanol causing this.

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Trying that. Dosen’t adhere well to cbd lol.

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The ethanol sounds like it’s dissolving sugar if it’s going deep into the mint

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Omw to the grocery store!

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Another mint company does this. They add herbs to the mints and it blends the spots. Tastes like ass though.