Certificate of Analysis

Why do we publish lab results?

The CBD coffee category attracted a lot of bad actors between 2018 and 2024. Spray-on hemp oil, vague "hemp extract" labels, no batch traceability, no contaminant screening. A 2020 FDA round of warning letters confirmed what buyers suspected: many products were under-dosed, over-dosed, or contained THC at levels the brand had sworn were zero.

Buddha Beans built around the opposite assumption. If a buyer is going to put a cannabinoid into their morning routine, the buyer deserves to know exactly what is in the bag, who measured it, and how to verify the measurement. That conviction shapes three operational rules:

1. Test what the label claims. Our products are third-party lab tested for cannabinoid potency and THC.
2. Test through an independent lab. Buddha Beans owns no in-house analytical equipment for cannabinoid or contaminant work. The lab is paid for the test, not for a passing result.
3. Publish the lab work. The current certificate of analysis for each product family is available from this page.

The benefit for a buyer is simple: if the lab numbers match what the bag claims, the bag is honest. If they do not match, you have evidence. That is a level of accountability the supplement aisle rarely offers.

What do the certificates report?

Our products are third-party lab tested for cannabinoid potency and THC. The certificates below are the current published results.

Who performs the testing?

The current CBD coffee and CBG tincture certificates come from SC Labs in Santa Cruz, California, an independent laboratory accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2017. ISO 17025 is the international standard for the technical competence of testing laboratories. An accredited lab has documented procedures, calibrated equipment, trained analysts, and ongoing third-party audits of its results.

The specific laboratory name and its accreditation certificate number appear on every COA PDF in the table below. The lab is paid by invoice for the test work, not contingent on a passing result. Buddha Beans does not own equity in the lab and the lab does not own equity in Buddha Beans.

What this independence buys you: a lab with an ISO 17025 scope can lose its accreditation for falsified results, and the cost of that loss is far greater than any single customer relationship. The financial incentive runs toward accuracy, not toward producing the numbers a brand wants to see.

How do you read a certificate of analysis?

Here is an annotated example so you can scan a COA in 30 seconds.

Annotated example showing how a certificate is laid out. The real certificates are linked in the table below.

When you compare certificates between brands, check three things: that the document names the laboratory and its accreditation number, that it carries a batch number matching the bag in your hand, and that it reports Total THC rather than Delta-9 THC alone. A certificate with no batch number cannot tell you anything about the product you actually bought.

Current Certificates of Analysis

We publish the current certificate of analysis for each product family. The CBD coffee and CBG tincture certificates report cannabinoid potency and THC compliance, measured by SC Labs of Santa Cruz, California, using high-performance liquid chromatography with diode-array detection (method QSP 1157). SC Labs holds ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accreditation through PJLA, accreditation number 87168. The SC Labs certificates name the analyst who approved them, carry a unique CoA ID and batch number, and include a QR code you can scan to verify the result against the laboratory’s own records.

Questions about a specific bag? Email coa@buddhabeanscoffee.com with the product name and any code printed on the bag.

The ZenFusion Process

Most CBD coffees on the market are produced by spraying hemp oil onto already-roasted beans. The oil sits on the surface, the dose pools in the corners of the bag, and the first cup brewed from a fresh bag carries a different concentration than the last cup. That inconsistency is one of the reasons buyers grew skeptical of the category.

ZenFusion™ is the proprietary infusion method Buddha Beans uses to bond cannabinoids to the bean during the roast itself. The broad-spectrum hemp extract is introduced at a specific temperature in the roast curve, the bean's cellular structure absorbs and locks the compound in place, and the post-roast bag is uniform from top to bottom.

The published certificates report cannabinoid potency and THC for the batch tested.

Read more about how the extraction and infusion work on the dedicated process page.