Cannabis-containing spray-dried nanoemulsions for carbonated beverages

温莎大学的特伦特研究实验室和NSERC和安大略省卓越中心支持的峰值处理解决方案之间的这个联合项目，希望将加拿大生产的大麻提升到对消费者友好的饮料配方中。加拿大由于其在大麻合法化方面的先行者地位，有机会率先创新新的解决办法，向世界各地的消费者提供药用和娱乐用大麻产品。简单地种植植物并不能加强我们的经济未来，因为其他国家将能够更有效地种植植物，但开发新技术将新配方推向市场确实为加拿大提供了创新优势和长期战略优势。Peak Processing公司正在开发一种粉末状、可分散的大麻，这种大麻很容易溶于水（大麻素本身不溶于水）。温莎大学拥有该技术的概念验证模型，但该项目涉及应用严格的统计实验方法，即实验设计，以优化所有生产参数，以产生最佳产品。理想的粉末配方具有均匀大小的颗粒小于10µM，不容易从环境中吸收水分，即使在储存和运输中也能保持其自由流动和易于使用的粉末，在货架上储存时保护有价值的大麻素不分解，并且在相同数量的材料添加到水中时提供完全相同剂量的活性成分。这是目前不存在的产品。这种伙伴关系具有使之成为现实的专业知识和设施。Trant实验室是微制剂，大麻科学和统计实验设计方面的专家，而Peak Processing是在食品，饮料和化妆品行业中开发可靠，可重复，一致的大麻产品的迅速崛起的领导者。合作伙伴预计将于2021年将富含大麻二酚（CBD）的产品推向市场，为加拿大人和世界各地的消费者提供一种有用的产品，他们正在寻找一种简单、可口的CBD形式。

This joint project between the Trant Research lab at the University of Windsor, and Peak Processing Solutions supported by both NSERC and the Ontario Centres of Excellence, looks to up-value the cannabis that is produced in Canada into a consumer-friendly beverage formulation. Canada, because of its first-mover status on cannabis legalization, has an opportunity to take the lead in innovating new solutions to providing medicinal and recreational cannabis products to consumers around the world. Simply growing the plant does not strengthen our economic future as other countries will be able to grow the plant more efficiently, but developing new technology to bring new formulations to market does provide Canada with an innovation edge and long-term strategic advantage. Peak Processing is developing a powdered, dispersible form of cannabis that can easily dissolve in water (cannabinoids themselves are insoluble in water). UWindsor has a proof-of-concept model of this technology, but this project involves applying rigorous statistical experimental methods, known as Design-of-Experiment, for optimizing all the production parameters to generate the best possible product. An ideal powder formulation has uniform-sized particles under 10 µM, does not readily absorb water from the environment keeping it a free-flowing and easy to use powder even on storage and transport, protects the valuable cannabinoids from decomposing when it is stored on a shelf, and gives precisely the same dose of active ingredient when the same amount of material is added to water. This is not currently a product that exists. This partnership has the expertise and facilities to make it a reality. The Trant lab are specialists in microformulation, cannabis science, and statistical experimental design, while Peak Processing is a rapidly emerging leader in the development of reliable, repeatable, consistent cannabis-based products in the food, beverage, and cosmetics industries. The partners anticipate bringing a cannabidiol (CBD)-rich product to market in 2021, providing a useful product for Canadians and consumers around the world who are looking for a simple, palatable form of CBD.