The Science

Designing a product that is effective and that patients and consumers will enjoy takes more than pleasing the palate to be a success. We research and apply well documented science and our own proprietary methods and patent pending technologies to make the products perform in a powerful and measured manner for the nutraceutical, cannabinoid and medical industries. 

These core technologies are applied to various 3rd party partners and our own formulations:
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​These patent-pending solutions are the result of plantrica's R & D and are now their own independent brands:

 
monarQh (nanoQuick)
 
Our patent-pending nano technology is based on 15 years of experience and R&D. 

nanoQuick™ surrounds and protects the cannabinoids and terpenes with particle size ranges of 10-30 nanometers utilizing a proprietary system that helps bypass unintended first-pass metabolism minimizing conversion to other more hallucinogenic forms such as THC Delta-9 converting to THC Delta-11.  nanoQuick corrects this and starts the intended experience in 5' minutes instead of 45'+ by sublingually beginning absorption into the bloodstream completing the cycle in the GI tract with 90+% cannabinoid and terpenes intake giving the consumer a better experience that's more cost effective, potent and consistent. 

 
Better Bitter Blocker
 
The problem with formulas that utilize bitter APIs or are just bitter on their own is the bitterness typically reduces the usability and adoption of the product by a consumer if the bitterness isn't reduced. We help formulators solve this problem.
 
Our patent-pending bitter compound taste blocker formulations are based on 14 years of bitter product formulation, production experience and R&D is called Better Bitter Blocker "BBB" that comes in two profiles allowing a bitter and sweet tunable approach:
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1) BBB T1R+
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2) BBB T2R+
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Bitter taste receptors (T2R): Bitter tasting compounds are detected by twenty five T2Rs receptors that are a family of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). 
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Sweet taste receptors (T1R): Sweet-tasting compounds are detected by only two heterodimeric receptors composed of two subunits, T1R2 and T1R3. 
 
We researched and utilized all major bitter blocker products and determined that no single bitter blocker product works for all formulations. We tested BBB with over 300 isolated bitter compounds and found that the overall reduction in bitter detection was 50-80%.
 
Our our patent-pending BBB is a "tunable" approach by separating and offering our BBB T1R+ and BBB T2R+.They can be utilized on their own, combined or in concert with a 3rd party bitter blocker. 
 
Highlights:
 
1) Bitter blocking: 50-80%
2) Low use rates: 2-5% average of your bitter API
3) Lowers sugar amounts in some products
4) Astringency reducer 
5) Flavor enhancer 
6) Sour reducer 
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                            PRODUCT FORMULATIONS
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plantrica's approach to plant based formulations is rooted in understanding the plant's core components and medical intent so they are present in each product line. One common term used for cannabis based medicine is the "entourage effect". This refers to the compounds present in the plant said to work in concert together that is the real medicinal power of cannabis.
 
We have taken our years of research into the plant's power and standardized it through "ELEVATIONS". What is it you ask?! Given the plant's natural profile changes and inconsistency in maintaining the %'s and ratios of the major cannabinoids and terpenes that support the “entourage effect” and created own proprietary profiles called "ELEVATIONS" that are integrated into each product in our portfolio.
 
To enhance these products we have developed three proprietary supporting formulations:
 
A) eQuiLib: Positive Mood Support, the world's first positive mood support ingredients formulated into products with cannabinoids.

B) Qerpene: Proprietary Terpene-Based Formulations that supports a defined and consistent consumer product experience using well defined terpene effects.​
 
C) QrossDerm: Transdermal delivery system utilized nanoQuick