Recently there have been advertisements that claim that manufacturers have successfully used extracts of Hoodia Gordonii to develop lollipops which have the same effect as taking Hoodia pills, basically it’s claimed that if you take the Hoodia Lollipops you will feel less cravings for food and generally eat less. While I fully believe that the idea is sound, the practice of actually putting enough of Hoodia’s active ingredient into one lollipop to have measurable effect would be extremely difficult and mostly economically not viable.

While my research has indeed indicated that mixing Hoodia Extracts into sugar based susbstances like Lollipops is indeed possible, the cost of doing it is extremely high. This is because as other large pharmaceuticals have demonstrated, the cost of extracting Hoodia Gordonii’s main active ingredient P57 is prohibitively expensive.

Let me give you a small history lecture about a Pharmacy company called Pfizer. Most would agree that Pfizer is a huge pharmacy giant and if interest is shown by them, its something that indeed has a lot of potential. The first company that was interested in Hoodia was Phytopharm, it was had a small R&D budget but when Pfizer got news about the opportunities that Hoodia presented they jumped into the bandwagon with Phytopharm to try extract and synthesize the active ingredient known as P57. A few years later Pfizer decided to leave the arrangement as they found that the extraction process of Hoodia was simply not economically viable. It simply was too expensive to extract it thus making the final product too expensive compared to just Pure ground-up Hoodia. 

The first thing that you must know about making lollipop is that all the basic ingredients must first be made into liquid form before it sugar is added and it crystallizes. Based on the fact that all the ingredients must be liquid, the only way that Hoodia’s active ingredient can be incorporated into a lollipop is to actually have the liquefied extract first. As mentioned earlier, it costs quite a bit of money to actually extract the P57 molecule from Hoodia. As such, any lollipop that has enough of the active ingredient P57 to be of any use will be extremely expensive.

As you can see, Hoodia Lollipops should cost a bomb compared to normal Hoodia Pills, however many of the lollipops are extremely competitively priced. The only conclusion is that most of these lollipops for sale don’t have enough of the P57 molecule to be of any use. If you do come across a lollipop that seems to be very expensive then the chances for it being packed with enough P57 is higher. Sensibly priced Hoodia Lollipops that work just don’t exist. My advice is simply to stick to Hoodia Pills as they are shown to be effective while being reasonably priced.