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Form to Calculate PPM (Patreon)

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2022-09-13 21:25:35
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The next video is getting posted shortly, so here is early access to the Patreon-only form that I developed so you can easily determine how much essential oil you need to make a syrup and what the final amount of essential oil is in a sodas or cocktail, measures parts per million, which matches FDA guidance. 

The form is on Art of Drink and you can access it with your Patreon account. There are descriptions for each field in the form, but if you don't understand it yet, the video will make it clear

If you have any suggestions for the form or questions, please let me know and I'll make modifications. Hopefully, in time it will be a fully functional "blend sheet" for making your own soda,  syrups and non-alcoholic spirits.

FEMA GRAS Documentation (Average Max Concentrations in PPM)

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Calculator - Art of Drink

Comments

Janne Goman

Hey Darcy, I acquired rosemary essential oil yesterday. Gras levels of Rosemary oil in beverages is only 3,6 ppm and the calculator will allow everything upto 200 ppm eventhough I chose rosemary oil as my oil type. Even if 3,6 is not set in stone, I'm not sure about the safe rate of using it. At which ppm levels rosemary will be efficient according to your experience? Have a nice day, Janne

Darcy S. ONeil
>>105606065

The safety of essential oils is high; otherwise, they wouldn't be allowed for sale. Toxic levels wouldn't be noticeable until someone consumed many grams of the oil. One metric drop of oil is 50 mg and if you added that to a litre of liquid that would be 50 ppm, and if you drank that litre in one sitting, you would only get 1/20th of a gram of oil, significantly well below any threshold for toxicity. Even 200 mg per litre is only 1/5th of a gram. You will find anything with camphor (which is in rosemary oil) becomes unpleasant to taste well below the 200 ppm level. If you look at the LD50 (lethal dose that will kill 50%) it is 2700 mg/kg which means a person weighing 80 kg will need to consume 216 grams to have a 50% chance of death. You'd have to drink a lot of pure oil for it to be an issue. This doesn't mean you should start formulating things at 200 ppm, but if you doubled or tripped the 3.6 ppm number, you would be fine.

Dale Munro

Good day. I am loving the content. I am writing to enquire about the possibility of you demonstrating how to make fruity flavored drinks/ juices (non-carbonated). and milk-based drinks/ punches, similar to Nestle Supligen peanut punch. Keep up the awesome content, and I'm looking forward to your next information packed post.

Darcy S. ONeil
>>106614245

Thanks. Do you want fruit-flavoured drinks made from all-natural ingredients or something like a fruit flavour made from different flavour compounds? For example, combing natural flavour chemicals can make a good strawberry flavour that is more stable. And milk drinks I plan on doing a video about, back in the 1940s there was "milk bar" trend in Australia and parts of the UK that I've found in old soda books.

Dale Munro
>>106614245

With regards to the fruit drink. I`m referring to drinks made from the combination of flavor chemicals.

John Chan

Hi Darcy, I really enjoy your video. I am a new patreon member and I am using your Energy Drink Formulation worksheet and watched you video on this. However, the worksheet is for sugar drink and I want to do a non calorie drink. Can you tell me if I can just replace the 600g sugar with "Zero Calorie Simple Syrup" and how much should I replace with. i.e. Does 600ml of "Zero Calorie Simple Syrup" == 600g of sugar? Or maybe you can do a Zero calorie energy drink video for us. Thanks in advance for any guidance!

Darcy S. ONeil
>>122438717

Hey John, Thanks for joining. The answer is simple: the zero-calorie syrup can be a direct replacement for simple syrup, so replace it, and you are good to go. Cheers

Ethan Callender

Hi Darcy, Would you be able to add Bay Leaf Essential Oil to the PPM Calculator? Ethan

James Norquay

Hello Darcy. Any advice on comparing usage levels of extracts versus essences/essential oils? These can be used effectively at higher levels? And presumably on that note, if we have made 10% strength essences of essential oils, we should use 10x the amount of the essence to correspond to the PPM values of the flavouring compounds?

James Norquay

Also, some requests for ingredients? Basically Belfast ginger ale - cognac oil, and ginger extract and Cayenne extract. Thanks!

Darcy S. ONeil
>>154397435

Both are quite different and there isn't any comparative data on one versus the other, they just have different applications. Extracts are mostly used to extract compounds that wouldn't otherwise get captured in a process like distillation. So tannins and bitter alkaloids are captured when doing an extract, whereas for essences it is more about capturing the aroma compounds. As for usage levels, the FEMA GRAS documents are the only guidance available.

Matthew N.

Not able to open this, it says I'm not eligible even though I'm a paying member

Darcy S. ONeil

Working on it, I just have to setup a login link. For security reasons, I changed the standard WordPress login location (avoid bots) but messed the plugin.

Charlie Albanetti

Hi Darcy- this form is really helpful. Two suggestions based on using it to create very very small ppm values as I’m formulating and working with smaller quantities to refine the formulae. 1) would be helpful to have a form based entirely on weight, or at least everything based on weight up until the total beverage volume. 2) I’ve found that when I enter numbers that would get me to a very small final ppm (single digits or even fractions), the calculator jumps to 0 - it would be helpful if it would go to two decimals in the final ppm calculation. Thanks so much for this.

Darcy S. ONeil
>>93509028

Hello, glad you find the form helpful. I do plan on making one for weight measurements and hopefully, I'll have it done in the next few weeks. As for small measurements, I suspect it is the chemist in me that sees "experimental error" and the fact that measurement error multiplies, so I built the form to factor that accordingly. Unless we are using a scale that can measure 0.1 mg (0.0001 gram), and those cost thousands of dollars, we can't accurately measure to one mg/L or ppm (if you are, let me know). Based on my calculations, using a 2-digit scale to weigh the oils, the best most people will do with standard equipment is +/- 10 ppm. And that's why I made the form without decimal places. I can do the weight form and add a decimal place, but in reality the real world measurements are going to be off that mark in the plus or minus 10 ppm range

Jason Gilley

I don't see any form here. Update: found it, it's not obvious that you click the top banner. I was expected an Excel spreadsheet file link or something similar.