Area 52 Delta 8 Gummies: The Ultimate Guide
Area 52 is a Delta 8 company that has Delta 8 products including Delta 8 THC Gummies that one can buy online. Area 52’s Delta 8 Gummies are pricier at $60 for a 30 count, but how do you know if it’s worth paying more for a product? When Delta 8 products cost more does it mean they’re a better product? There are a lot of Delta 8 companies out there and prices for the same products vary greatly so how do you know when it’s worth paying more or not?
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By learning the variables impacting product quality you can be informed on your Delta 8 product purchases & not base buying decisions off of metrics that don’t detail quality like packaging & brand noteriety
The key is knowing the right questions to ask and enough about the process to know what matters and what doesn’t. This can be tricky because most people don’t want to take the time to become experts and there’s so much misleading information online- who do you trust and what do you really need to know?
Transparently, we are a company that also has best-selling Delta 8 Gummies and products for nearly half the price and would like to earn your business, but we will do our best to be objective in giving you the points of consideration needed to decide for yourself what fits your needs.
Of our core tenets providing education to the industry businesses and consumers we provide products to and doing our best to create the most effective, safe products we can is at the top. In that process, we have learned a lot, which we are happy to share in this post and others, to lift the industry as a whole.
We will specifically review Area 52’s Delta 8 THC Gummies, discussing their Delta 8 Gummy Product and company details. But let’s start with the variables that impact the quality of Delta 8 THC Gummy in general since it’s a popular product that many people buy and the rules here will apply to Area 52’s Delta 8 Gummy as well.
What Makes a Good Delta 8 Gummy?
The key differences between one Delta 8 Gummy product and the next are the texture; flavor, quality of the non-active ingredients, and the quality of the active inputs, such as Delta 8 THC.
Ideally, the best Delta 8 Gummy would be a perfect combination of soft mouthfeel but still firm enough that it’s not goo in your mouth and doesn’t instantly melt when in contact with the heat of the summertime. This is actually a common issue with Delta 8 Gummy products.
In the summertime, if not made right they can easily melt during shipping. For this reason, many Delta 8 Gummy companies err on the side of caution and make them firm. The issue is many are made too firm sacrificing making a better Delta 8 Gummy in favor of mitigating their risks of loss. The Hemp Collect ran over 20 tests on Delta 8 Gummy textures to find the best combination of soft and firm.
Then you have the taste of the Delta 8 Gummy. This is subjective but still, after trying many gummies we can say that some of the best tasting gummies contain real fruit juice, the trade-off of this is that it makes them more expensive. Other Delta 8 Gummies use natural fruit flavoring to keep costs down but there are still exceptional natural fruit flavors; there are also bad ones.
The Hemp Collect took time trying and finding flavors to find the best expressions of the most popular profiles for Delta 8 Gummies including pink lemonade, strawberry, blue raspberry, and mango. Some Delta 8 Gummies don’t contain enough of the flavoring and end up being bland or the flavoring can taste cheap or overly fake.
The other major flavor variable is the balance of acidic bite and sweetness of the Delta 8 Gummy. The citric or malic acids can either be formulated inside the gummy or more commonly it is mixed into the sugar that’s used to coat it. Many companies only use sugar as it’s cheaper and easier but it makes the Gummy overly sweet in most cases. In nature, fruit naturally has citric acid balancing out the sugar. The purpose of the sugar coating to the outside of the Delta 8 Gummy to help keep them from sticking together and allow for greater ease of use/dosing.
Let’s discuss the quality of ingredients next. When sourcing ingredients there can be contaminants in them and it’s important the ingredients are sourced from reputable places with good manufacturing practices to ensure purity and safety.
This includes the Delta 8 inputs. Some companies say their Delta 8 distillate is produced from a better process than others but at the end of the day- all Delta 8 distillate is made from hemp isolate input that has to be purified to ensure only safe compounds in the final distillate. Producers operating within the regulations of the industry should be testing for all catalyst and reaction agents in their final oil before manufacturing into a product.
Distillate potency is no doubt important as it shows it was made from good hemp input, however, product safety and process repeatability is paramount. A majority of Delta 8 distillate on the market is at potencies of 85%+ but some are lower, typically around 65%. This is most often caused by using a lower potency hemp CBD isolate, which then converts to a lower Delta 8 potency in the final oil. Whereas pharma-grade 99.5%+ potency isolate tends to lead to high potency Delta 8 distillate.
There are many companies presenting tests showing Delta 8 distillate at 95-99%%+ but if you call an accredited reputable lab they will tell you nearly all Delta 8 distillate is actually testing around 85-90%. Isolated cannabinoids, like CBD hemp isolates, reach such ultra potencies but many consistent 90%+ Delta 8 potencies are from labs that do not have accurate testing standards or less than scrupulous “interpretations” of the THC peaks of the chromatograph– the equipment used to compare test samples against the known concentration of cannabinoids such as those used in testing for Delta 8 distillate. In short, lab testing is a scientific “best guess” at the potency but more importantly, lab results can ensure there are no residual solvents or harmful compounds left from the hemp extract conversion process. Consumers and manufacturers need to be sure the product they are purchasing was made with Delta 8 distillate from a reputable source with certified COAs in the 85% range and a full panel test to ensure safety.
In short, a gummy with 25 mg of hemp derived Delta 8 is a gummy with 25 mg hemp derived Delta 8. The more important consideration is whether the gummy actually contains 25 mg in the first place & this isnt 100% verified by looking at a COA or the product box, due to that fact it requires a trustworthy and ethical producer.
Delta 8 distillate is made from CBD isolate and that isolate was made from a crude hemp extract such as ethanol or CO2 extract, rarely would anyone make distillate from higher quality, craft inputs like CBD live resin but you certainly could as it is also a full-spectrum extract. When it comes to distillate edibles, it doesn’t matter if the Delta 8 distillate was made from CO2 or ethanol sourced isolate nor its potency before formulation as in the end, 25 mg is 25 mg. What matters is that the Delta 8 used is safe and that the company tests properly to ensure it’s actually 25 mg in the final product.
Having a lower potency Delta 8 distillate used in Delta 8 products just means more Delta 8 distillate is needed in the product to get the 25 mg which could impact how much you taste it. The more Delta 8 distillate needed in the product, the more likely it will have a bitter distillate taste.
So to recap, the most common reason why one 25 mg Delta 8 Gummy would be stronger than the next is that the Delta 8 Gummy may actually contain more or less than 25 mg of Delta 8 if the company manufacturing them didn’t properly formulate and produce the gummies. Reliable dosing can only come from a reliable product. The test and packaging could say 25 mg but that doesn’t mean it’s accurate. Tests have wide levels of variance which we cover later in this post. And companies don’t always maintain the best transparency practices which brings us to:
Don’t Trust Everything a Business Says
We want to start this paragraph by emphasizing that there are many really reputable companies out there making quality products. Our point here is simply: don’t take what a company says at face value. Use critical thinking and resource other supporting sources to reinforce and verify their statements as true.
This goes back to the number of potential variables relating to product testing and how ultimately you have to trust the company as it’s not realistic to spend a ton of money and time validating all of every company’s claims.
There often is an un-due level of trust most consumers give a brand or business based on factors that are not actually indicative of whether the company is an ethical company. The most common examples of this are an overemphasis on pretty packaging or convincing marketing phrases across the products and site to mean the company is honest and ethical.
There are multiple companies that are some of the most ethical we know, with excellent therapeutic product formulations- that don’t have the best packaging (we say that with love) and in contrast, some companies put all of their energy into nice boxes and less into product quality.
As an example, there is a company, which we will omit the name of (name blasting is not our intent just showcasing the reality of consumer packaged products), where the FDA issued the CBD business a warning for selling methanol as hand sanitizer labeled to contain ethanol.
To be clear, methanol is considered toxic. The excerpt is edited to conceal the businesses name and to shorten:
FDA Warning to Cbd Company
Adulteration Violations: Substitution
Manufacturing operations at your facility included the receipt of bulk consumer hand sanitizer, which you filled into containers and labeled as the finished drug product. Based on the information provided during the inspection, you received bulk hand sanitizer from several suppliers, including manufacturers located in Mexico.
“Company Name” branded hand sanitizer, collected at your facility, is labeled to contain 70% volume of the active ingredient ethyl alcohol (ethanol). However, FDA laboratory testing of a batch of this product collected during the inspection found that the drug product contained on average 0% ethanol and an average of 58% methanol.
Additionally, the hand sanitizer, purported to be manufactured at your facility, is labeled to contain 70% of the active ingredient ethanol. However, FDA laboratory testing of this batch of this product obtained from the commercial market found that the drug product contained an average of 32% ethanol and an average of 7.4% methanol.
Therefore, these hand sanitizer drug products are adulterated under section 501(d)(2) of the FD&C Act in that the active ingredient, ethanol, was substituted wholly or in part with methanol, a dangerous chemical when in contact with human skin.
Methanol is not an acceptable ingredient for hand sanitizers and should not be used due to its toxic effects. Skin exposure to methanol can cause dermatitis, as well as transdermal absorption with systemic toxicity.
Substantial methanol exposure can result in nausea, vomiting, headache, blurred vision, permanent blindness, seizures, coma, permanent damage to the nervous system, or death.
And this all to emphasize that just because a company says something on a box or website, doesn’t make it true.
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