Phenolics
Secondary metabolites in cannabis including flavonoids, flavoalkaloids, and phenolic acids
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Phenolics
Cannabis Has More Hidden Chemistry Than We Thought: Flavoalkaloids Just Got Their First Cannabis Sighting
A 2025 study in the Journal of Chromatography A used two-dimensional liquid chromatography to find 79 phenolic compounds in just three Cannabis strains — including the first evidence ever reported of flavoalkaloids in Cannabis.
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Phenolics
What are Cannflavins? The Unique Cannabis Flavonoids with Anti-Inflammatory Activity
In 1985, a PhD student in London isolated two compounds from cannabis that inhibited inflammatory markers 30 times more effectively than aspirin—in cell culture. Those compounds, cannflavins A and B, have been quietly sitting in the scientific literature ever since.
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