Review: No Coast Raspberry Pâte de Fruit

This is the second No Coast product we’ve reviewed at High Gear Labs, but will the No Coast Raspberry Pâte de Fruit measure up to the wonderful Golden Milk Cookies?

First things first, what the hell is “pâte de fruit?” According to the product description, it’s “slow cooked, ripe fruits for a rich, jam-like texture.” Admittedly, these things do elicit the sensation of eating a spoonful of jam, but I think you’d be forgiven for just saying “gummies.” At least I hope so, because that’s what I intend to do.

So do the jam gummies perform as well as the mini-cookies? Let’s find out!

No Coast Raspberry Pâte de Fruit Test 1 (5 mg)

In my tireless effort to keep testing parameters as consistent as possible (and because they are delicious), I dug into a rotisserie chicken after swallowing a gummies. As I’ve noted previously, for some reason, rotisserie chicken seems to coax out the best performance in edibles, so I like to give these products the best possible testing conditions. And I wasn’t disappointed.

Onset took a respectable 40-ish minutes, followed by a rapid climb. I hit the peak at the 50-minute mark, with a nearly perfect weeknight buzz. Maybe just a hair under perfection, but it was close enough. I could feel a slow fade start at the 3.5-hour mark, but I was still comfortably buzzing enough to fall asleep without any sleep or pain supplements.

Test 2 (5 mg)

This test was conducted with the (historically) slightly less effective edibles accompaniment of pesto chicken with veggies. Amazingly, this did not slow down the the No Coast jam square. Onset was about 35 minutes, followed yet again by a rapid climb that peaked barely 10 minutes latter.

This peak was almost identical to the rotisserie chicken test. I’m not sure that’s happened with any other products I’ve tested. Maybe jam-based THC delivery vehicles don’t require a strong food boost?

I went to bed at the three-hour mark, without feeling much in the way of a fade, so it’s safe to say these are good for three hours under any conditions.

Test 3 (10 mg)

The ritual 10 mg dose, standard outside of Minnesota, unsurprisingly went quite well. Onset took about 35 minutes and I hit the peak just after an hour. As with many other products, two No Coast gummies didn’t feel quite like double the strength of a single gummy, but nevertheless I was comfortably in stage-one, Friday night buzz territory. I was definitely feeling funky, but not so much that I couldn’t follow the plot of the Star Trek Strange New Worlds episode I was watching.

Oddly, I detected a fade that began at the 2.5-hour mark, which declined steadily until I got into bed 45 minutes later. I’m not sure why this fade started a little sooner than previous test, but if this had actually been a weekend night, I probably would have taken a stage-two dose by that point anyway.

The straight dope on No Coast Raspberry Pâte de Fruit

Like No Coast’s milk cookies, these things delivered above average results without, you know, seeing into other dimensions. Like many of their contemporaries, the price is on the high side for Minnesota edibles, but you could do much, MUCH worse. And it must be said, the raspberry tastes great.

SCORES:

Potency: 4

Price: 4 ($24.99 on the Hemp House website)

Value: 4

Far Out, Man Ratio: 4

Total: 16 out of 20

Scoring system is a 1 to 5 range, with 1 being “meh,” and 5 being “Fuck yeah.”