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WHAT IS KRATOM EXTRACT?
We hope to answer the following questions, What is Kratom Extract? How are extracts made? What is actually in kratom extract? There are 3 ways we see Kratom. We see Kratom as a crushed leaf, in powder
form, or the extracted form which is called an extract. For the purpose of this
article, the definition of extract in a chemistry sense is to obtain (a substance) from a mixture or material by a chemical
or physical process, such as digestion, distillation, the action of a solvent,
or mechanical separation. We are going to try and explain what a Kratom extract
is since most vendors have some sort of extract on their list of products. For
now, The Leaping Leaf extracts solely to enhance plain leaf Kratom so it still very
affordable. You can find these under our Lightly Enhanced Blends section and our Boldly Enhanced Blends sections. If you have ever been to a vitamin or
supplement shop, chances are you have seen extracts of some sort. There are
lots of plant extracts since so many plants have wonderful medicinal uses. The
“extract” that is being pulled from the plant are known as alkaloids and it is
these alkaloids that make up the useful part of the plant. Check out our other post with a little info on the Alkaloids that make up Kratom. There are at least
10,000 known alkaloids! There are about
28 different alkaloids in Kratom (also known as Mitragyna Speciosa), and there
is still a lot of studying that needs to be done to fully understand the
alkaloids. The geographical region and other variables determine the alkaloids
present in the different known Kratom strains.
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You have probably did your own extraction
sometime in your life. Have you ever brewed Coffee or Tea? Then you’ve
extracted before. Extraction can be done with water, alcohol (used for Kratom
Tincture), and Acetic Acid to name a few.
The Alkaloids in Kratom make up only about .5% while the other 99.5% is just filler. To give you an idea of why extract is so strong and can be expensive, if you were to get all the alkaloid out of Kratom, it would take 450kg to make around 2.5kg of pure Kratom alkaloid extract. Note: We aren’t referring to Kratom Resin. We’ll discuss Kratom Resin in the future. While scientists are continually finding new and awesome uses of many Kratom Alkaloids, the Alkaloids the Kratom burners are interested in are are 7-hydroxymitragynine, and Mitragynine. It used to be thought that Mitragynine was the main alkaloid but scientists now believe it to be 7-hydroxymitragynine. Studies have shown the this alkaloid is a WHOPPING 46x more active then mitragynine!
Believe it or not, the different extraction methods determine which alkaloids are extracted out of the Kratom leaf the best. Using water to extract alkaloids is different from using alcohol to extract alkaloids.
But most people want all the alkaloids to be present, extracts that contain the same amount of ALL the alkaloids in Kratom is known as Full Spectrum Kratom extracts. There are lots of other Katom extracts as well though. These extracts are usually concentrating on certain Alkaloids, not an equal amount of all of them like Full Spectrum Extract. Full Spectrum Extract is basically a more potent form of a kratom leaf but the other extracts that concentrate on only certain alkaloids usually go for the mitragynine or 7-hydroxymitragynine Alkaloids first and foremost.
Most people mix their Kratom extract with plain leaf which creates an "Enhanced Blend" of Kratom. This is our specialty. This makes the extract go much further for your money.
What is 10x extract, 25x extract, 50x extract, and 100x extract?
Have you ever seen a site selling (some number)X extract on a website? It's really freaking confusing isn't it? This number followed by "X" is suppose to be the concentration of the Kratom extract. Most of the misconceptions surrounding kratom extracts are due to this :"X" . Some Kratom vendors tell their customers this "X" means "times" like in math. So they claim that 1g of 10x kratom extract is 10 times as active as 1 gram of kratom powder. This is incorrect, and this unfortunate mismarketing of kratom extract has led many to decry kratom extracts as ineffective or fraudulent. What this "X" really means is the amount of Kratom leaf it takes to make the extract so as an example, 25g of 10x extract means it took 250g of Kratom Leaf to make that 25g of Kratom extract. So you are clear what this means, 25g of 30x extract takes 750g of Kratom leaf to make. You get the picture now, that is why extract isn't cheap. But, now does that mean this 25g of 30X extract has 30 times more alkaloid in it? The answer is no because the extraction process isn't perfect. The folks that make Kratom extract use all kind of different methods, machine, solvents, etc. Some alkaloids are undoubtedly more extract than others so the "X" really is meaningless, if the extractor used some cheap ole 19th century method in the 30x example(750g), he will not get the same amount of allkaloids as some $300,000 machine doing the extraction. Plus, since each extraction method works better for certain alkaloids then others, you still don't know what you getting.
The other thing you need to remember is one vendor's 15X extract may not be as good or may be better than another vendor's 15X extract. What in the world is the deal with these really high numbers like 100X extract. Be safe and buy a very small amount before wasting your money.
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