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Comparison

LA Kush Cake vs Animal Face

Animal Face is another Seed Junky strain built on Animal Mints: Face Off OG × Animal Mints, which won first place at the 2022 Emerald Cup, three years after LA Kush Cake’s personal-use win.1,2 It tests about the same in state labs: 24.49% median THC against 25.39% for LA Kush Cake, and LA Kush Cake leads with limonene where Animal Face leads with β-caryophyllene.3

Side by side

LA Kush CakeAnimal Face
TypeIndica-leaning hybrid; Leafly rates it mostly calming4Hybrid1
LineageWedding Cake × Kush Mints (Seed Junky Genetics)4,5Face Off OG × Animal Mints (Seed Junky Genetics)1
Median THC (state lab tests)25.39% (770 tests)24.49% (335 tests)
Middle half of THC results22.57%–28.31%21.20%–27.44%
Top terpenes (median)Limonene, β-Caryophyllene, Linalool (371 tests)β-Caryophyllene, Limonene, Linalool (157 tests)
Leafly’s top effectsAroused, relaxed, sleepy4Relaxed, tingly, euphoric1
FlavorVanilla, mint, pepper4Menthol, mint, diesel1
Emerald Cup2019, first in personal-use flower2,52022, first place1

Lab rows come from the same state lab dataset and matching rules for both strains.3

Lab-tested THC: LA Kush Cake vs Animal Face

20% 22% 24% 26% 28% 30% LA Kush Cake LA Kush Cake: median 25.39%, middle half 22.57%–28.31%, 770 tests 25.4% n=770 Animal Face Animal Face: median 24.49%, middle half 21.20%–27.44%, 335 tests 24.5% n=335 Median total THC (dot) and middle half of tests (bar)
Median and middle half of total THC in state lab tests.3

Animal Mints on both sides

Animal Mints, a cross of Animal Cookies and SinMint Cookies, is a parent of Animal Face and the parent of both of LA Kush Cake’s parents, Wedding Cake and Kush Mints.1,6 Both lead a state’s sales: in August 2026 Animal Face was Maryland’s top seller and LA Kush Cake Alaska’s.7 Animal Face has its own guide in the Official Cannabis network at animalfacestrain.com.

Which is easier to find

On Oct 4, 2026, 28 stores within 50 miles of Los Angeles listed LA Kush Cake flower on Weedmaps, against 1 store for Animal Face; around New York the counts were 17 and 46.8

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Sources

  1. Leafly, Animal Face (aka Animal Face #10) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  2. SF Station, Emerald Cup selects 2019 award winners (2019-12-20). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  3. Cannlytics (CC BY 4.0), cannabis_results: public state lab results (filtered and aggregated by Official Cannabis). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  4. Leafly, LA Kush Cake (aka Los Angeles Kush Cake, LA Kush Cake #11) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  5. Weedmaps, LA Kush Cake strain page. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  6. Leafly, Animal Mints (aka Animal Mintz) strain information. Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  7. The Marijuana Herald, The top-selling marijuana strain in all 23 states with legal recreational sales (Anthony Martinelli) (2026-09-18). Accessed Oct 4, 2026.
  8. Weedmaps listings, compiled by Official Cannabis, Weedmaps flower menu snapshot, 27 US markets, Oct 4, 2026. Accessed Oct 4, 2026. Latest capture Oct 4, 2026.