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July 6th, 2022
As the hemp industry is getting more profitable worldwide, researchers are discovering new ways to improve the formulas that we’ve been taking for years through more advanced and cleaner extraction methods. One of the more recent methods employed by hemp manufacturers is the use of live resin, which is one of the most game-changing advancements for the industry thus far, bringing us even closer to consuming hemp as nature intended. Live resin is a relatively straightforward type of product that comes with all kinds of advantages over more conventionally extracted forms of hemp, and here at Greenlife Remedies we have some amazing options for you.
Live resin is a means for yielding a higher-quality cannabis extract through the preservation of the plant’s terpenes and flavonoids, which come with lots of valuable properties while giving the plant its pungent flavor and aroma. Not only does live resin allow us to enjoy higher concentrations of these desirable compounds, but it contributes further to the entourage effect so we can yield the most synergistically beneficial result from an extract-based cannabis product.
Live resin-based products are going to give you a fuller, richer and often more floral flavor profile than you’d get otherwise. But, it’s also going to give you a more potent overall experience, since these terpenes and flavonoids aid in the bioavailability of the cannabinoids in the product through natural plant synergy. Live resin is particularly popular with federally compliant delta 9 products, because these more bioavailable extracts allow the body to absorb delta 9 more effectively without having to take more than what the legal limit of the cannabinoid allows.
Live resin is not actually a plant resin. It’s named after its appearance and consistency, which is very thick, sticky and sap-like. It’s usually amber-colored, or dark yellow, and this shows you that it has a high concentration of terpenes, as the lower the terpene content, the clearer the extract.
Most cannabis extracts come from raw plant material that has been dry-cured, meaning that it’s been kept in a dark, dry and cool place to naturally lose some of its moisture so that it can be stored for longer periods of time without developing mold. Dry-curing is great for flower products, but it has a drawback – the process reduces the potency of the terpenes and flavonoids in the plant, which exist in the sticky trichomes that coat the buds. Once the texture of these trichomes changes through curing, the terpenes and flavonoids lose a good deal of their freshness.
The solution to this issue is live resin. To make live resin, the processor dips the raw plant material in some sort of material to flash-freeze it – usually liquid nitrogen – and skips the curing process altogether. This freezes the trichomes so that when they are thawed out, they are exactly as fresh as they were when they were first picked. From there, the plant material is extracted as it normally would be using the various methods employed by cannabis companies.
Live resin is an objectively superior way to preserve the terpenes and flavonoids in cannabis. We already discussed how it aids in better flavor, aroma and bioavailability, but there’s another aspect of it that can be great for the industry at large. Producing live resin requires fewer resources than dry-curing, and so companies can save a lot of money, time and energy by producing live resin when preparing their plant material for the production of extract-based formulas.
What’s great about live resin is that it can be used interchangeably with the more traditional types of extracts. What this means is that live resin can be used to produce vapes, gummies, tinctures, capsules, topicals, and any other type of hemp product on the market, without limiting the product’s value in any way.
It’s clear that live resin is a superior way to convert raw cannabis material into clean, compound-rich extracts that taste fresh and offer superior bioavailability. And, as this method is picking up, you’ll be seeing more and more companies incorporating live resin into their various hemp formulas, to offer a whole new level of satisfaction to those already dazzled by the properties of the hemp plant.
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