Are There Other Natural Sources of Tobacco-Free Nicotine?
Jun 21, 2022
At present, the term “tobacco-free nicotine” always refers to synthetic nicotine. As you may know, though, tobacco isn’t the only plant that contains nicotine. Eggplants, potatoes and tomatoes all contain nicotine as well.
The problem with using any of those plants as sources of nicotine, however, is that their nicotine concentrations are much too low to be viable for use in commercial products. Eggplant with a weight of 100 grams contains about 0.01 milligrams of nicotine. To get a single milligram of nicotine – the nicotine content of an average cigarette – you’d need 10 kilograms of eggplant.
At this time, there’s no way to source nicotine from eggplants, potatoes or tomatoes without incurring enormous expenses and wasting huge amounts of food. In the future, though, it is possible that a company will genetically engineer one of those plants to produce higher amounts of nicotine. If that happens, synthetic nicotine will no longer be the only form of tobacco-free nicotine.
Does Synthetic Nicotine E-Liquid Taste or Feel Different?
As we mentioned at the beginning of this article, there’s a reasonable chance that your favorite e-liquid brand has already switched from tobacco-derived nicotine to synthetic nicotine this year and that you didn’t even notice. That’s because true pharmaceutical-grade nicotine is already more than 99 percent pure. Synthetic nicotine is the same molecule and has similar purity to pharmaceutical-grade tobacco-derived nicotine; it’s just obtained in a different way.
The only reason why an e-liquid with synthetic nicotine might taste different to you than one with natural nicotine is that the tobacco-derived nicotine you’re currently using isn’t truly pharmaceutical grade. If a nicotine extract is poorly filtered, it could have minute tobacco remnants that give the nicotine a bitter flavor. In that case, an e-liquid maker might attempt to cover the bitter flavor of the tobacco remnants with sweeteners and strong flavors. Such an e-liquid, though, still wouldn’t taste as good as one with a purer form of nicotine. If the e-liquid that you’re currently using does happen to contain nicotine with a low purity – which is rare – you’ll probably find that synthetic nicotine tastes better.
In terms of satisfaction, people generally report that they can’t feel a difference between synthetic nicotine and tobacco-derived nicotine. A few people have commented, though, that synthetic nicotine seems less likely to cause hiccups at high strengths. If you use high-strength e-liquid and sometimes experience hiccups when you vape, you may find that hiccups occur less often – or don’t occur at all – with synthetic nicotine.
How Can I Buy Synthetic Nicotine E-Liquid?
At the time of writing, the biggest suppliers of synthetic nicotine are located in the United States and Europe. If you live in either of those regions, there’s a good chance that your favorite e-liquid makers are using synthetic nicotine already – and if they aren’t using TFN nicotine, they probably will soon. To find TFN e-liquid, all you need to do is watch the selection at your favorite online or local vape shop. If a given brand is using synthetic nicotine in its products, you’ll most likely see one of the following things on the company’s product labels:
- Synthetic Nicotine
- Tobacco-Free Nicotine
- TFN
Generally, an e-liquid brand that’s made the changeover to synthetic nicotine will want to advertise that fact to its customers. The presence of TFN nicotine is generally desirable to consumers who are happy for any opportunity to distance themselves from tobacco products to the furthest extent possible. Also, changing from tobacco-derived nicotine to synthetic nicotine represents a major investment for an e-liquid brand because doing so isn’t just a matter of reconfiguring the company’s production lines; synthetic nicotine also costs more than tobacco-derived nicotine. E-liquid companies have a strong incentive to let customers know about the investment they’ve made toward the betterment of their products.
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