Cannabidiol (CBD) products are becoming an increasingly popular alternative way to manage a range of health concerns, from stress and anxiety to sleep support and pain relief.
Medical News Today is committed to providing honest and useful reviews of CBD products to help our readers make informed decisions about the highest-quality products available online.
To do this, we employ a rigorous product selection, vetting, and review process. Read on to learn more.
Our Medical Standards and Insights team vets each brand and product, ensuring we only feature CBD products that meet our standards. The team looks at factors such as:
- ingredients and quality
- brand reputation
- marketing claims
- lab testing results
- third-party certifications
- good business practices
Companies that provide the above information are most likely to be featured in our articles.
Learn more about our vetting process.
Medical News Today always adheres to high standards when selecting CBD products. We aim to empower our readers to make educated and confident purchasing decisions when choosing products to manage their health.
All CBD products in our articles are vetted by our Medical Standards and Insights team and carefully selected by our editors.
Our editorial team looks for factors such as dosage guidelines, transparent information on hemp sourcing and quality, and adherence to the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA)
We only include products with a publicly available certificate of analysis (COA) and evidence of third-party lab testing for ingredient and dosage accuracy and potential contaminants.
A team of Medical News Today employees and associates will test carefully selected CBD products to provide our readers with real-life insights on how products hold up to brands’ marketing claims.
If we test products for their effects on certain health concerns, such as anxiety or pain, we seek out testers who have lived experience of these conditions to provide the most authentic insights possible.
Our reviewers do not receive payment or incentives for providing reviews. All views are their own, and we do not expect testers to provide wholly positive feedback. In fact, we encourage our testers to provide honest and detailed accounts of their experiences to equip our readers with the most valuable product reviews possible.
Our testers will typically test a CBD product for between 2 to 4 weeks.
In their review, we encourage testers to describe their reasons for trying a CBD product, their previous experience trying CBD, and, in particular, any individual health concerns or goals they would like to CBD to support.
Our testers will typically provide feedback on:
- how and when they took the product
- the dosage and serving size
- how it made them feel
- any physiological effects it had
- whether it benefited their health goals
- how easy it was to take or use
- its flavor and scent
- its texture
- shipping and delivery experience
- customer service interactions
- cost
The use of CBD for treating or managing health concerns is an area of rapidly growing research. As scientific understanding of CBD’s uses, benefits, risks, and limitations expands and improves, industry practices and consumer policies change.
As a result, we regularly update our articles to provide our readers with accurate, reliable, and useful information. Our updates process may include reevaluating and retesting products, with some products failing or passing our vetting process as new scientific learnings and CBD policies arise.
We also regularly update our articles with new scientific research as it arises.
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