Description
A twelve ounce bag of medium roast arabica with the extract added after grinding, at 12.5mg a cup. That last detail is the one that matters: cannabinoids degrade with heat, so CBD coffee made by roasting beans with extract on them is a different proposition from coffee where the extract goes on cold afterwards. The milligrams per cup are printed on the bag alongside the pouch total rather than instead of it.
What is in a bag of cbd coffee
Pouch total, per cup figure and serving count, all three printed. The front of a bag usually shouts only the first.
- CBD coffee: 12.5mg of cannabidiol a cup, with the pouch total on the bag
- Coffee: arabica, medium roast, ground
- Method: extract applied after grinding, not roasted with the beans
- Caffeine: present, as in any coffee, and stated on the bag
- Net weight: 12 oz, about 340 g
- Price: $29 a bag, with the price per milligram printed under it
The honest problem with brewing it
Cannabidiol is not water soluble. Hot water passing through ground coffee will carry the oils and the caffeine readily and the cannabinoid fraction poorly, so the 12.5mg printed per cup is what is on the grounds rather than a measurement of what ends up in the mug. Adding milk or cream gives it something to dissolve into and changes that. Nobody selling CBD coffee can give you an honest extraction figure for your own grinder, water temperature and brew method, so we print what went on and say this much out loud. The drinks range states container total, serving total and serving count on every listing.
Caffeine, which is doing the obvious work
A cup of brewed arabica carries somewhere in the region of 80 to 120 mg of caffeine depending on dose and brew, and that is the compound with a noticeable effect in a mug of this. It is stated on the bag rather than left to be assumed. There is no added sweetener, no cream powder and no flavouring in the bag. For reference figures from a source with nothing to sell, the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements publishes them.
Why cbd coffee is sold ground rather than as whole beans
Because the extract has to go on somewhere, and a ground surface takes it evenly while a whole bean does not. The cost is shelf life: ground coffee stales faster than beans, and a 12 oz bag of CBD coffee has a best before date printed on it for that reason rather than for the cannabinoid. Keep it sealed and cool. A bag left open loses its aroma within a fortnight, and the cannabinoid figure on the assay outlasts the coffee by a long way.
Testing cbd coffee
Every production run is assayed by a laboratory with no ownership tie to this company for cannabinoid content, pesticides, heavy metals, residual solvents and microbials. On a blended dry product the figure worth reading is uniformity, because a bag can average correctly and still be uneven scoop to scoop, so the certificate reports the assay per serving rather than a bag average. Runs coming in under their printed milligrams are withdrawn and the failing certificate stays published next to the passing ones.
What the published work used, and it was not a cup of coffee
Measured oral doses. The approved prescription cannabidiol oral solution was trialled at 10 to 20 mg per kilogram of body weight per day. Single dose human studies used 300 to 600 mg in one sitting. None of that literature involves an uncertain extraction from grounds into water, which is why an infused beverage is the hardest format in this catalogue to reason about in milligrams. Those sentences describe the published record and its doses rather than making a claim about this bag.
The certificate for the run of CBD coffee currently shipping is linked here and filed by lot number on the lab results page.
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