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If you are a regular tea drinker, you have already become accustomed to the feelings of calm and bliss accompanied by your favorite morning, afternoon, or evening cups of tea.
Tea, on its own, is pretty great. Tea can benefit human health in a number of ways, including increased exercise endurance, increased ability to burn fat as fuel and it can even help reduce the risk of a heart attack. By adding CBD in the (tea) mix, those benefits are tripled.
CBD, more formally regarded as cannabidiol, is the fantastically therapeutic cannabinoid found in cannabis. Gaining accolades for being non-psychoactive (meaning it will not give you the buzz or high that THC does) and incredibly abundant in health benefits, CBD is the mood-improving supplement tea drinkers are loving to love.
Here, we give you the rundown on what CBD tea is, where you can get it, and how you can make your very own CBD tea.
What is CBD Tea?
In contrast to a CBD latte, CBD tea is a little more complex. You cannot just put a couple teaspoons full of CBD oil into your tea and call it a day. Doing this wouldn’t produce as strong healing benefits that you are hoping to get, and it probably wouldn’t taste great.
Also, not all CBD-infused teas are the same. The truth is, CBD oil-based teas cannot extract in hot water because – drumroll, please – water and oil do not mix. In order to maximize the compound’s bioavailability (the degree and rate at which it is absorbed in the body), the CBD has to be thoughtfully and carefully crafted in labs where the consumer’s best interest is the focus.
With water soluble, bioavailable CBD, you can feel confident that the CBD contained is actually being extracted into the hot tea. This allows your body to feel the full effects as it provides the most benefits possible.
An excellent brand that does this very well is Buddha Tea. Buddha Tea has taken the mystery out of crafting the most bioavailable cup of CBD tea on the market. This brand has discovered a process that takes the CBD oil and transforms it into a powder that is slipped into their bleach-free bags along with organic teas. All you need to do is heat the water to a proper/desired temperature, steep the appropriate amount of time, and enjoy your CBD tea.
Buddha Tea’s Chamomile Blend CBD Tea, for example, has earned global popularity for its calming effects. Using all organic ingredients, it is paired with healing lemon balm and a hint of soothing lavender, plus an added 5mg of water soluble CBD in each tea bag. This CBD tea is relaxing, calming and soothing, and is known to be a great nighttime tea that helps with sleep, mood stability, anxiety, and inflammation.
Make Your Own CBD Tea
If you are concocting your own CBD tea, water soluble CBD, again, is the most ideal to use, as that specific kind of CBD product was created to be utilized in food and beverages. The water soluble CBD we used below uses full-spectrum CBD (read: Entourage Effect) whereas a lot of other water solubles use CBD isolate.
A water soluble product we especially love is Hemplucid’s Water Soluble CBD Oil. This solution is formulated using an ultra-purified, de-waxed whole-plant CBD concentrate. The CBD oil is bonded to organic vegetable glycerin creating a sweet, sugar free and rapidly bioavailable CBD product perfect for tea-drinking. It’s Daintri’s favorite because it uses full-spectrum CBD where many others take the shortcut and use isolate.
But, if you’re more the DIY type, the surest way to enjoy a great cup of CBD tea is to add dry or fresh cannabis or hemp material to hot water. But (this is important), the heat produced by boiling water does not extract the cannabinoids – it extracts the plant’s terpenes – which are still very good for you, but it is not stand-alone CBD.
Let us explain a little more: Terpenes, like CBD, are believed to have a therapeutic effect on pain, inflammation and anxiety, and they are responsible for the varying scents of the plant. But if you want to get the cannabinoids out of the plant material (extraction), you have to follow a more complex process.
To activate the cannabinoids, your fresh plant materials need to go through decarboxylation (the heating of raw cannabis), which transforms the cannabinoids into CBD. First, you heat the material (in your oven, ideally) for 20 minutes at 100 degrees Celsius, then, you raise the temperature to 115 degrees Celsius and leave it in the oven for at least an hour.
Finally, you take your now-baked plant materials out and seep them into hot tea.
Here are ingredients and directions for making a delicious CBD tea:
Ingredients
- 6 grams freshly ground hemp stems
- 2 cups full-fat milk like coconut, hemp or whole dairy
- ¼ cup (melted) coconut oil or ¼ stick of softened butter
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup of water
- Loose leaf chai tea (or any other flavor) and tea infuser ball
- Honey and cinnamon
Directions
- Blend hemp stems, milk, oil and vanilla extract until combined
- Allow the mixture to sit at room temperature for an hour
- Add mixture to saucepan, along with the water and infuser full of tea leaves
- Cover and simmer over medium-low heat for 20 minutes (do not let it come to a boil)
- Pour into a mug and add cinnamon and honey
Important to know: Because cannabinoids (like CBD) need fat to be absorbed in the small intestine, be sure to sip your tea with, or directly after a meal in order to absorb the nutrients and feel all of the relaxing feels.
Takeaways
- The goal of CBD is to optimize health by maintaining homeostasis within the body.
- The (very simple) alternative to making your own CBD tea would be to add a few drops of CBD oil into your hot tea, but make sure it is water soluble CBD oil you are using.
- When just starting out, you may need to experiment to find the CBD dosage that is right for you, but a good rule of thumb is this: Always start small and slowly work your way up.
- Because making your own CBD tea is somewhat challenging, we recommend purchasing a water soluble CBD tea like Matcha Green CBD Tea by Buddha Teas.
While it is recommended that you use water soluble CBD, Daintri offers a wide variety of CBD products that can also be easily mixed into your favorite teas, including CBD Honey Sticks, Stress Blend CBD Tincture, CBD Coconut Oil Sticks, CBD Isolate Powder, and more.
Daintri is an online retailer that curates high quality CBD products that meet stringent levels of superiority and safety. Daintri takes the difficulty out of finding the right CBD product for your needs by curating the best products on the market. Made from pure and potent CBD sourced from premier hemp producers, these products are specially created to deliver the best possible health effects.