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I've been sampling CBD oil from a few different sources the past few months. I just received a bottle from Bluebird Botanicals (as the author did). Their website warns you before purchase about the taste, and after sampling three other products, I just ignored the warning.

I received it yesterday and WOW it tastes AWFUL. It's really bad.

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I recommend mixing it with honey! My favorite drink with it is CBD + honey + matcha green tea + ice.

How much do you mix in?

Until you can't remember how much you put in.

Just a note, I've read that CBD actually suffers from first pass metabolism by the liver, so taking it orally is extremely inefficient. Anecdotally, I've found the anxiolytic effects to be more significant from smoking it than eating it. I also find vaping flowers more pleasant than consuming oil, and gives me more control over dosage.

> I received it yesterday and WOW it tastes AWFUL. It's really bad.

As weird as it might sound, I prefer that with "medicine", it's also one of the reasons why I "enjoy" drinking chamomile tea: It tastes so bad, it gotta be healthy.

> it's also one of the reasons why I "enjoy" drinking chamomile tea: It tastes so bad, it gotta be healthy

Each to their own, I really enjoy the taste of chamomile tea :)

Agreed that it's a good thing for medicine not to taste 'good' though, especially for medicines that happen to enhance appetite...

This is probably quite common. Cough syrup being a typical example where the the taste seems to be largely down to how they think they can make it taste enough like what people expect cough syrup to taste like, given the long list of completely awful but completely different tasting syrups.

It's a pet hate of mine, as it's getting hard to get some of the typical ingredients separately as pills - e.g. guaifenesin (expectorant) used to be commonly available separately in the UK, but is now usually combined with paracatemol (acetaminophen) and phenylephrine hydrochloride if you want it in pill form, sometimes additional things too, like caffeine - it seems like the market basically is split in a "must suffer for this to be real medicine" segment and a "I just want everything possibly related in one pill whether or not any individual one of them will do anything" segment.

If you prefer to actually choose specifically what active ingredients you consume, then you're stuck with the mostly foul syrups (I've found one that isn't actively offensive to my tastebuds)

under the tongue intake ?

I'm wondering if it's possible to inhale CBD with the old bowl of near boiling water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUxOdFJEDdg

Dissolving under the tongue, for like 1-2 minutes, is the most common application advice I've seen with CBD oils.

But does it actually make any difference?

Absorption through the mouth skips a large portion of the digestive system.

Just use a purpose designed cannabis vaporizer?

do you think there's a market for flavorless CBD products?

Definitely. While I appreciate the fact that their oil is a natural plant-derived supplement, many people would be turned off by this oil for their first try.

"Good Vibes" by Sabaidee is as close to "flavorless" as I've come across, but my favorite thus far has been Green Mountain CBD, which has a "chocolate mint" flavor.

There's a huge market for edibles and ingestibles. It's only a matter of time before "CBD CannaButter" is available in grocery stores for cooking.

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