Features hemp cooking around the world
The dynamics of hemp cooking may indicate that for not a very long time, the market supply of hemp products ingredients will be formed primarily in Europe and North America.
The development direction of hemp grocery business in different countries depends significantly on the regulatory framework of both the industry and individual directions konoplevodstva. With regards konoplevodstva, refers to the legislation governing the use of not only the seeds and their derivatives (oil, oil cake, flour, etc.), but also the leaves and inflorescence beznarkoticheskoy hemp. The supreme achievement of certain economically developed countries is a settlement at the legislative level, the possibility of using even the leaves and inflorescence of psychoactive cannabis and cannabis extracts for the preparation of a variety of different culinary dishes.
The historical aspect
It has long been for anybody not a secret that virtually all of the ingredients of cannabis for tens of thousands of years been used as a staple food. We will not describe the religious dogma associated with the use of different ingredients cannabis as a staple food in Buddhism, Christianity, other common religions of the world. One of the most revealing facts concerning the relations of our ancestors to hemp as food, is the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus. Great traveler holds of ships bound for unknown lands, uploaded universal grains using that travelers could fully ensure its existence for a long period of swimming or being in uncharted lands.
Countries with outstanding legislation in the field of food (seeds and their derivatives)
General market trends
According to information provided by the European Industrial Hemp Association, about 56% of hemp seeds in the EU are used in cooking or business related to product lines konoplevodstva. From 2010 to 2013. seed production in the EU has increased from 6,000 to 11,500 tons (an increase of 92%). hemp seeds production dynamics associated with a significant increase in commodity grain demand from the food market. Not only the small shops, but also the network of Europe's largest supermarkets currently offer food from hemp seed products or their derivatives.
A striking example of the lack of legal framework hindering development of the product direction is konoplevodstva Australia. On the one hand konoplevodstvo "green continent" is rapidly growing, and some companies are actively trying to "secured" in the Asian, North American, European markets. On the other hand too much "over-regulated" market of the country of food due to the lack of the necessary documents relating to industrial hemp in the past five years makes it impossible to sell the seeds and their derivatives in the grocery market. How would it not sound absurd, but hemp products banned in Australia and New Zealand under the pretext that they are "too healthy".
Another example of the unresolved legislation on the use of hemp seed in the product direction is Ukraine. In our country, there is no sufficient legal and regulatory framework governing the use of hemp grain or its derivatives. For example, there are no standards, according to which the market could sell the seed as food or seed position as the insufficient quality, and therefore turn it into a cheaper category - zoobusiness sphere. The legal framework is so flawed that the seed is grown in the traditional way, overheated on the elevator, stored in warehouses in which they live mouse - very often sold as bio-or eco-friendly product. Accordingly, almost all derived from hemp seeds, hemp oil in particular, do not meet the European requirements grocery market, however present in the domestic market of Ukraine as "extremely beneficial to the human body to the product."
Countries that use as food cones, leaves and inflorescences of cannabis
Technical hemp
In Denmark, restaurants serve from the leaves and inflorescence industrial hemp. Latvian businessmen specialize in the manufacture of hemp tea and coffee. After the national professional associations growers actions aimed at legitimizing the use of leaves and inflorescences beznarkoticheskoy hemp as food, already in 2017 the Ukrainian government officials will not interfere with the use of "green mass" industrial hemp in cooking.
Psychoactive hemp
In the Netherlands Hemp foods are mostly represented by culinary specialties that use milled cones, leaves and inflorescence have psychoactive effects. The unsettled Dutch law makes legal the sale of these products exclusively in coffee shops. Despite the tiny size of the market in the Netherlands hemp food, it continues to slowly grow and grow with new players experimenting with different cannabis extracts.
Use in cooking hoods, as well as extracts
Modern cooking hemp cannabis use are not cones, and oil extracts. These oils are extracted from plant material by means of compressed gas, such as carbon dioxide, after which the plant residues are ejected. A similar process in the economically developed countries of the world are only permitted in specially equipped premises of commercial firms specializing in the extraction.
According to US and Canadian hemp for culinary flavor extracts meet the terpenes, aromatic substance secreted by plants, giving the cones a specific taste and smell. Those who specialize in the breeding of new varieties of hemp plants selektsioniruyut individual grades is to obtain a unique bouquet of flavors, rather than just a high concentration of cannabinoids. We are actively studying all hemp components in order to determine the mechanism of their interaction. In the future, this knowledge will be used to make hemp extracts and extracts provide a unique taste and aroma of the products in which they will be applied.
Over the past few years, cannabis reform in 4 US states, Canada, some European countries, there was a hemp cooking, adding extracts of THC and CBD to completely different types of food, candy and chocolate bars to delicious dishes of various cuisines of the world, in desserts and sweets.
According to some market experts in Europe and hemp products in North America, hemp food will be a real breakthrough for the medical cannabis market in the developed world strnah. In spite of all the prospects of this direction konoplevodstva, hemp cooks do not have enough resources (specialists, experience, money) for the full-fledged development of konoplevodstva sector. However, the dynamics of development of hemp cooking may indicate that for not a very long time, the market supply of hemp products ingredients will be formed primarily in Europe and North America.
Information taken from the site http://tku.org.ua