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Familiarizing yourself with the different types of extractions, and the products they yield, is important. This section sets you on the journey of becoming an informed and scientifically savvy CBD consumer.

 Full-spectrum CBD: Full-spectrum CBD is the first outcome of any extraction. It carries all the parts of the plant leaves, the fiber, and the plant matter itself. The predominant theories are that full-spectrum is the most therapeutic of the extracts. Processing it to remove extra compounds results in the forms that follow.

 Broad-spectrum CBD: As I write this, a lot of CBD products on the market have broad-spectrum oil as an active ingredient. A broad-spectrum extract is a result of removing one or more of the chemical compounds found in a full-spectrum extract (see the preceding section). A compound often targeted for removal is THC because, from a legal standpoint, CBD products are required to have no more than 0.3 percent THC.

 Distillate: Distillation is a further step in processing and creating an extract without taste or aroma. Some call it a purification process. In a world with so many added chemicals, having a short ingredient list has become a selling point. Distillate is made to maintain a specific cannabinoid (such as THC) and nothing else, creating the desired potency without the effects of other components. (Cannabinoids are the plant chemicals specific to cannabis and hemp plants; you can read more about them in Chapter 2.)

 Isolate: Isolate is exactly that: an isolated chemical compound. In the case of CBD, an isolate is solely the cannabinoid CBD without any other terpenes, flavonoids, or cannabinoids. (I cover these substances in more detail in Chapter 2.) Isolate is your classic catch-22: It’s adored for its simplicity and equally unappreciated for its lack of complexity.

 Other forms: Other forms of CBD aren’t directly derived from extraction but instead are yielded from further processing of an extracted form of CBD, full-spectrum, broad-spectrum, distillate and Isolate. For example, nanopartializing CBD is the process of making the chemical itself smaller. Water-soluble CBD is the result of suspending oil-based CBD into a water-based compound with an emulsion that keeps the two repelling agents, water and oil, from separating. These forms are popular because they’re believed to make the CBD easier for the body to take in, but the evidence on them is insufficient.