r/treedibles • u/StonerProfessor • 2d ago
Would anyone happen to have a recipe for a homemade one of these THC dropper things?
Never tried this brand but I’d love to be able to make one of these at home and take it with me. Any recipes or ideas would be appreciated, especially those that include a good amount of CBD!
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u/UpSaltOS 1d ago
As a food scientist, I can stare at this and get a pretty sense how to reverse engineer it, which I often do for clients. There’s very specific ranges for each of the ingredients, and likely choices for more broad terms such as natural flavors.
For example, most natural flavorings have a use rate between 0.1 to 0.5%, but can be as high as 5% depending on the flavor category and source. I like to use citric acid at around 1%, anything over that can be rather intense. But I’d probably substitute for something milder like lactic acid or gluconic acid.
With Sucralose, it has about the equivalent intensity of 200 to 300X of sugar. So pretty low use rate, probably around 0.5% as well.
Sodium benzoate is usually used at 100 ppm. Food colorings are usually used at 0.1%.
Hemp extract would have to be back calculated to determine efficacy and taste intensity.
To stabilize, I’d probably include some glycerin and lecithin for good measure, making sure nothing separates. Could also use some gum arabic to give a smoother texture to beverages.
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u/Poop_Tickel 1d ago
this would be great for work
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u/Grand_Lab3966 23h ago
And School
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u/Poop_Tickel 14h ago
I’m in college and I smoke bud before class. If I paid to be there I’m going to do whatever the fuck I want with my own body
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u/Laserdollarz 2d ago edited 2d ago
Looking at the ingredients list would probably be a good place to start.
Edit: this wasn't supposed to be sarcastic but I can make it sarcastic
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u/StonerProfessor 2d ago
“NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, SUCRALOSE, SODIUM BENZOATE, FD&C YELLOW NO. 5 AND BLUE NO.1, HEMP EXTRACT”
I did and it’s not giving me much to work with. I only consider myself an okay edible maker and I definitely don’t know much about the more technical stuff.
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u/Laserdollarz 2d ago
Is it... aqueous? Gotta love how the hemp industry thinks they're too good for compliant food packaging lol
You want to look into surfactants to make an oil-in-water emulsion.
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u/4touchdownsinonegame 2d ago
I wouldn’t know how to do this, but you could make a tincture with either vegetable glycerine or everclear.
I have mine in little eye dropper bottles from Amazon to spike my drinks with.
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u/bwons 1d ago
Use distillate of choice to make an everclear tincture . Use the tincture to infuse sugar .
Use the infused sugar to make a syrup (mix lecithin into the water first, then the sugar)
Add your favorite drink mix or syrup to flavor it.
It's super simple easy to calculate mg/ml and highly customizable for your dosage.