I'm developing a kava based ready to drink beverage for sale, following a couple of decades of enjoying kava at home and when visting/living in Vanuatu. I am experimenting with using kava extract (30%, nonsolvent, watersoluble) but have read some things, including on this forum, about whether using kava extract is a good idea as not enough is known about their effects as opposed to the extensive body of literarture on traditionally prepared kava. Would welcome folks thoughts on this, and whether it is feasible to make ready to drink beverage with the kava powder or instant kava powders out there? If anyone has links to larger-scale reputable suppliers of kava powders or extract, preferable close to where kava is cultivates please let me know (for refrence I am based on the West coast of the US). Thanks!
Kava for ready to drink beverage
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Honestly, unless you can get direct from Vanuatu, it won't be worth the effort imo. There are already, ready made beverages out there.
Again if you are bringing something new to the table, you are willing to abide by all the regulations to ensure a safe product for your customers, might be a different story, perhaps.
Alia
'Awa Grower/Collector
If you go down to "Kava News" in these Forums you can see what the FDA and State of Hawaii, separately say about extracts.
See " 'Awa Story for Hawai'i ". If you decide to make a beverage from kavalactones extracted from kava, it is not actually kava.
If you make the traditional beverage and flavor it, that would be a different story.
Thanks. It's been many years since I last went to Vanuautu. Do you know any suppliers there who can provide quality assured kava for export? Thanks!
Thank you ! I read your posts and the documents around this in Hawaii and the FDA, thank you for sharing, very interesting.
TheMood
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I have just begun production on a line of Kava Seltzers also using 30% extract water sol powder. I have done roughly 18 months of R&D. The benefits I have found using the extract vs. traditional biomass are noticed by most users during field sampling. They include no upset stomach for those who get an upset stomach when using traditional medium grind or micronized biomass as well as a quicker onset. The kava flavor is also not as prevalent when using the extract. The kava flavor is still present for sure but no near as prevalent. The label for my seltzers does state they are made using a kava extract. Eventually I plan to release a line of kava beverages using the traditional medium grind biomass. These are just observations from myself as well as roughly a 100 people whom have sampled the seltzer of the last year and a half.