How Do Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum, Distillate, and Single Isolate Products Differ?

How Do Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum, Distillate, and Single Isolate Products Differ?

Individual molecules produced by cannabis comprise its chemical spectrum or chemical profile, much like individual colors comprise a rainbow's color spectrum.

What is a chemical spectrum, exactly?

The chemical spectrum of cannabis is constantly changing due to genetic, environmental, and human factors. As a result, the chemical composition of cannabis varies depending on strain, plant part, mature and juvenile plants, and environmental stimuli 2.

The chemical make-up of cannabis varies depending on strain, plant part, environment, and life stage.Because of the abundance of chemicals found in cannabis, each strain and product has a unique chemical spectrum, also known as a chemical fingerprint.

Full Spectrum, Broad Spectrum, Distillate, and Isolate Products Explanation Cannabis' chemical spectrum narrows as it is processed and refined.

Terms like Distillate Full Spectrum, broad spectrum, distillate, and single isolate describe how far cannabis products have been processed and refined after harvesting.To help explain this concept, consider the ordinary table sugar you put in your coffee. Table sugar is a highly refined product derived from the sugar cane plant. It's a single isolate known as sucrose.

Sugar cane can also be used to produce less refined products such as sugar cane juice (made by pressing sugar cane and collecting the sugary liquid that results) and molasses (which is made by concentrating the sugary liquid through boiling). These products are considered broad spectrum because they contain sucrose as well as other nutrients found in sugar cane such as vitamin B6, manganese, magnesium, iron, potassium, and calcium3.

In the cannabis industry, the terms Distillate Full Spectrum and broad spectrum are not used consistently. Although Bona Voluntate labels its ingestible medical oils as broad spectrum, there is currently no standardized definition or criteria for what constitutes a full or broad spectrum product. As a result, similar carbon dioxide (CO2) extracted oils can now be labeled as Distillate Full Spectrum by other companies.

The amount of refinement that a product goes through determines the product's spectrum type: Distillate Full Spectrum products have had little to no refinement. Broad spectrum or distillate

refers to all other products that have been refined through extraction and purification steps.

Broad spectrum products are intermediate between Distillate Full Spectrum and single isolate products. Our cannabis oils, for example, are extracted using CO2 and have gone through more processing than our dried flower products. As a result, they have lower terpene levels. CO2 extracted oils, on the other hand, retain some of the chemical spectrum and are thus considered broad spectrum when compared to other THC or CBD products (for example, distillate or single isolate).

Single Isolate products are made by heavily refining the cannabis plant in order to extract a single chemical entity like THC, Full Spectrum CBD Wholesale, or individual terpenes. Individual isolate products, such as the terpene profiles for our medical vapes, can be blended together to create broad spectrum products.

Full Spectrum CBD Wholesale is a highly refined, almost pure THC or Full Spectrum CBD Wholesale extract. Distillate is produced as a byproduct of the distillation process, which occurs after CO2 or ethanol extraction. The majority of flavor and fragrance chemicals (terpenes, for example) are

removed during the distillation process, but very small amounts of other cannabinoids may be found. As a result, THC or Full Spectrum CBD Wholesale is neither a single isolate nor a broad-spectrum product.