CBD Chewing Gum UK
CBD chewing gum is ordinary gum with cannabidiol worked into the base, sold in the UK in blister strips at two strengths, 17mg and 36mg. That much every page selling it agrees on. What they do not agree on is what those numbers cover, and the disagreement is not a rounding error. Search this term and the first result presents 17mg as the strength of one piece of gum. The manufacturer's own product text for that same gum says 17mg is the whole blister, and that a blister holds twelve pieces. Those two readings are twelve times apart. This page sets out what we hold in writing, what we do not, and everything else worth knowing before you buy a pack.
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CBD chewing gum is ordinary gum with cannabidiol worked into the base, sold in the UK in blister strips at two strengths, 17mg and 36mg. That much every page selling it agrees on. What they do not agree on is what those numbers cover, and the disagreement is not a rounding error. Search this term and the first result presents 17mg as the strength of one piece of gum. The manufacturer's own product text for that same gum says 17mg is the whole blister, and that a blister holds twelve pieces. Those two readings are twelve times apart. This page sets out what we hold in writing, what we do not, and everything else worth knowing before you buy a pack.
The 17mg question, and why nobody else is asking it
The manufacturer's own text says 17mg is the whole twelve-piece blister, about 1.4mg a piece. The page ranking first presents it as the strength of one piece. We publish the manufacturer's reading.
Start with what is printed. Every labelled gum on this shelf carries a spec line reading Content: 12 Pieces (17g), and the same manufacturer text says the product contains 17mg of CBD per blister. Two separate statements, one document, both pointing the same way: seventeen milligrams spread across twelve pieces, which works out at roughly 1.4mg in each one. On the 36mg version, the same twelve pieces, so about 3mg each.
Now look at how it is sold. The page currently ranking first in the UK for this search stocks exactly one brand, the same Bubbly Billy Buds gum we carry, and titles it as 17mg gum in a way that reads unmistakably as the strength of a single piece. At least one European retailer goes further and states it outright: twelve pieces at 17mg each, a total of 204mg a blister. Another European retailer states the opposite just as plainly, that the 17mg is for the pack and not per individual piece.
Our best guess at the source of the muddle is sitting in the spec line itself. The net weight of a blister is 17g. The CBD figure is 17mg. Two seventeens, two different units, printed next to each other on the same panel. It would be strange if that had not caused trouble.
So here is our position, stated rather than implied. We publish the manufacturer's reading, because two independent statements in their own product text support it and because it is the more cautious of the two. We do not have it confirmed in writing directly from Multitrance, and we are asking. Until we do, read a blister as a blister rather than counting on a per-piece figure, and if precision matters to you more than format, the oil aisle is built for that and this shelf is not.
That is more than any page competing for this term says about it, including the one at the top, which has not noticed the question exists.
- 17mg
- per blister, on the manufacturer's text
- 12 pieces
- in a 17g blister
- 1.4mg
- a piece, on that reading; about 3mg on the 36mg gum
| Source | What it states | Works out as |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer product text, syndicated through our distributor | 17mg of CBD per blister, Content: 12 Pieces (17g) | About 1.4mg a piece. This is the reading we publish. |
| A European retailer of the same line | 12 pieces, 17 grams, 17mg per pack and explicitly not per individual piece | About 1.4mg a piece. Agrees with the manufacturer. |
| A second European retailer of the same line | Each blister holds 12 pieces, each containing 17mg, totalling 204mg a blister | 17mg a piece. Twelve times the figure above. |
| The UK page ranking first for this search | Product titled as 17mg gum, presented as a per-piece strength | 17mg a piece, stated without qualification. |
| The manufacturer's own website | Product page indexed in search results but returns an error when opened | Nothing. This is why written confirmation is still outstanding. |
Four brand names, one Amsterdam factory
Astra Hemp, MediCBD, Bubbly Billy Buds and Multitrance Cannabis arrive under one manufacturer code with one specification and one ingredients panel. You are choosing a flavour and a wrapper.
Every labelled gum on this shelf is the same product wearing different labels. That is not a suspicion, it is what the paperwork says.
Astra Hemp, MediCBD, Bubbly Billy Buds and Multitrance Cannabis all arrive from our distributor under one manufacturer code. Every one of them carries the line Multitrance Original Amsterdam in its product text. Every one states the identical specification: twelve pieces, seventeen grams, the same two strengths, the same twenty-four blister case. The ingredients panels match word for word, down to the antioxidant.
This is the single most useful thing a shop stocking several brands can tell you, and it is the one thing a brand-owned site can never say. Two of the pages ranking for this term are run by gum brands. Neither is going to publish the sentence you just read.
What follows from it is practical rather than cynical. If you are choosing between these four, you are choosing a flavour and a wrapper, not a formulation. Astra Hemp is the only one with eucalyptus. MediCBD is the only one with a straight mint. The Multitrance Cannabis line is the only one leaning into the cannabis flavours, Cannabis Sativa and Strawberry Haze. Bubbly Billy Buds covers peppermint and strawberry. Pick on taste, because on everything else there is nothing to pick between.
One more gum appears here from time to time, and it is a different animal entirely. It gets its own section below. Strengths and flavours come and go from stock, so the live table after the next one shows what is on the shelf today.
| Brand | Strengths | Flavours | What is different about it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Astra Hemp | 17mg and 36mg | Eucalyptus, Strawberry, Mango | The only eucalyptus gum on the shelf, and genuinely unusual in the category. |
| MediCBD | 17mg and 36mg | Mint, Strawberry, Mango | The only dedicated mint. If you want gum that tastes like gum rather than like hemp, this is the one. |
| Bubbly Billy Buds | 17mg and 36mg | Peppermint, Strawberry, Mango | Same maker as the others despite the separate brand identity. |
| Multitrance Cannabis | 17mg and 36mg | Cannabis Sativa, Strawberry Haze, Mango Kush | The flavour-forward line. Strain names here describe taste, not potency, and Mango Kush is the same mango as the other three. |
| Tyson 2.0 | None stated | Peppermint | Contains no CBD and no THC by the manufacturer's own description. Peppermint with activated charcoal, sold as novelty confectionery, and in and out of stock. |
A pack of 24 is not 24 pieces of gum
The 24 counts blisters. Twenty-four blisters at twelve pieces each is 288 pieces of gum.
Every labelled gum here is listed as a 24 pack, and the 24 counts blisters. Twenty-four blisters at twelve pieces each is 288 pieces of gum, which is a genuinely large quantity of chewing to have committed to.
The distributor code confirms it independently of the wording: these lines carry a case marker rather than a single-unit one, so the 24 is the case quantity that our supplier ships. That is also why the format exists. A twenty-four blister box is what goes behind a counter to be sold one strip at a time.
Set against the strength reading above, the arithmetic is worth doing once. On the manufacturer's figure a full case of 17mg gum holds about 408mg of CBD across 288 pieces. On the alternative reading it would hold nearly five grams. Two numbers that far apart cannot both describe the same box, which is exactly why we are chasing written confirmation rather than picking whichever sounds better.
| Unit | Contains | CBD on the manufacturer's stated figure |
|---|---|---|
| One piece | One piece of gum, about 1.4g | Roughly 1.4mg at 17mg, roughly 3mg at 36mg |
| One blister | 12 pieces, 17g net | 17mg or 36mg, as stated on the panel |
| One case | 24 blisters, 288 pieces | About 408mg at 17mg, about 864mg at 36mg |
One gum on this shelf has no cannabinoid in it at all
The Tyson 2.0 Cannabis Chewing Gum is peppermint gum with activated charcoal, described by its maker as containing no THC and no CBD.
When it is in stock, the Tyson 2.0 Cannabis Chewing Gum is peppermint gum with activated charcoal, and the manufacturer describes it in plain words as cannabis themed novelty confectionery that does not contain THC or CBD. Our catalogue records it with no strength, which matches.
It is on this shelf because it is a cannabis-branded chewing gum and people looking for cannabis chewing gum will look for it. It is not here because it does anything the labelled gums do. We would rather write that sentence than let the branding do the talking, and no other UK page selling this gum says it.
If you want the name, buy the name. If you want a cannabinoid, buy one of the labelled four.
What is actually in it, in full
Sugar-free, sweetened with polyols, a gum base that contains soy, hemp essential oil, CBD oil, and a colour that needs a note of its own.
One page in the whole ranking set lists gum ingredients, and it does so generically for products it does not stock. Here is the real panel, identical across the four labelled brands.
Sweeteners: sorbitol, isomalt, maltitol syrup, acesulfame K, sucralose. Gum base, which contains soy lecithin. Flavours. Humectant: glycerol. Thickening agent: gum arabic. Hemp essential oil at 0.3 percent. CBD oil. Colours: E171 and E141ii. Glazing agent: carnauba wax. Antioxidant: E321.
There is no sugar in it. These are sweetened with polyols and high-intensity sweeteners, which makes them the sugar-free option in an aisle where lollipops and hard sweets are sugar by construction.
One further note, and we are including it because leaving it out would be the easy thing to do. The panel we have been supplied lists E171, titanium dioxide, and also states the product is made in the EU. Titanium dioxide has not been a permitted food additive in the European Union since August 2022 under Regulation 2022/63, and the same position applies in Northern Ireland. It does remain permitted in Great Britain under retained legislation, and the UK Committee on Toxicity completed its own assessment in October 2024. The likeliest explanation is simply that we have been handed a panel that predates a reformulation. We are asking the supplier for the current one, and if you are avoiding E171, or you are ordering to a Northern Ireland address, ask us before you order rather than after.
The law, and the two different wrong numbers in this search result
A CBD chewing gum may be sold in the UK when the whole container holds no more than 1mg of controlled cannabinoids, is made from a permitted hemp variety, and meets UK food law including Novel Foods.
Per container. Not per piece, not per blister, and not a percentage of anything. This is the point where the search results for this term fall apart, and they do it in two different directions. The page ranking first states the threshold as 0.3 percent. Another page in the set states it as 0.2 percent. Both figures are real numbers from real legislation, and neither is the consumer test: they come from the Home Office licence that governs growing hemp, and they describe the standing crop in a field.
Two more of the pages we examined publish UK CBD commercial content with no legal statement at all, which is its own kind of answer.
Everything on this shelf is recorded in our catalogue as CBD isolate, and the labelled range is described by its manufacturer as free of THC. The Food Standards Agency separately advises healthy adults to keep CBD from food supplements to no more than 10mg a day, guidance announced in October 2023. On the manufacturer's stated figure, a whole 17mg blister sits above that, which is worth knowing if you were planning to work through one in a sitting.
The usual conditions apply and are not boilerplate. Over-18s only. These are food products rather than medicines, and nobody selling them may tell you what they do for a health condition, which two pages ranking for this term do anyway. If you are pregnant or breastfeeding, or you take prescription medication, speak to a GP or pharmacist first.
When gum is the wrong thing to buy
Gum is the most portable CBD format we sell and, on the figures the manufacturer publishes, one of the lightest. Both halves matter.
Under 18, pregnant or breastfeeding: not for you, whatever the wrapper looks like.
Not for you if
- You want a meaningful amount in one go. Roughly 1.4mg a piece is a small figure next to a gummy or a measured drop of oil, and chewing six pieces to make up the difference is a lot of chewing. CBD gummies print a figure per piece and CBD oil measures a drop at a time
- You want a strength you can be certain of. The per-piece figure is disputed and we are seeking confirmation. A shop that is unsure should say so, and this is us saying so
- You want variety. Four brand names come down to three real flavour families plus a mint, all from one factory
- You avoid soy, or you are avoiding titanium dioxide or ordering to Northern Ireland. Read the ingredients section above first
- It is the discretion you want rather than the format. CBD mints do the same job in a smaller package, and the wider CBD sweets aisle covers lollipops and hard sweets alongside them
Questions people ask
Is the 17mg on a pack of CBD gum per piece or for the whole blister?
The manufacturer's own product text says per blister, and that a blister holds twelve pieces, which works out at roughly 1.4mg in each one. Several retailers present the same figure as a per-piece strength instead, which would make the blister twelve times stronger. We publish the manufacturer's reading because two separate statements in their documentation support it, and we are seeking written confirmation before we state it as settled.
Why do four different brands of CBD chewing gum look identical?
Because they come from one manufacturer in Amsterdam. Astra Hemp, MediCBD, Bubbly Billy Buds and Multitrance Cannabis all reach us under the same maker code, all carry the same Multitrance Original Amsterdam line in their product text, and all publish word for word the same specification and ingredients panel. Choosing between them is choosing a flavour and a wrapper, not a formulation.
Do any of these gums come in a pack smaller than a case of 24?
Only the Tyson 2.0 one, which our distributor lists both as a single piece and as a 12 pack. The four labelled CBD brands are supplied to us purely as cases of 24 blisters, which is a shop-counter format rather than a personal one. If you want to try the format before committing to 288 pieces, that is worth knowing before you order.
Why does this whole shelf only run two strengths?
Because one manufacturer makes all four labelled brands, and 17mg and 36mg are the two strengths in that maker's gum line. It is not four companies independently arriving at the same pair of numbers. The practical consequence is that the strength decision is made for you before you choose a brand, and the only real variable left on this shelf is flavour.
Are there allergens in CBD chewing gum?
Soy, in the gum base itself, declared on the panel as soy lecithin. Because all four labelled brands share one manufacturer and one recipe, anyone avoiding soy needs to avoid the entire labelled range rather than switching between brands. The panel on the individual product page is the place to check before ordering, and it is the same panel across the shelf.
What is the difference between the 17mg and the 36mg gum?
Only the amount of CBD and the flavours each strength is offered in. Both are twelve pieces to a blister at the same seventeen gram net weight, from the same maker, on the same ingredients panel. On the manufacturer's stated figure the step up is from roughly 1.4mg a piece to roughly 3mg. Mango is the flavour that runs across the 36mg lines.
Which of these gums tastes least like cannabis?
The MediCBD mint, which is the only straight mint on the shelf and the closest thing here to ordinary chewing gum. Astra Hemp's eucalyptus is the other one that reads as a proper gum flavour rather than a hemp one. At the opposite end, the Multitrance Cannabis line in Cannabis Sativa and Strawberry Haze is deliberately built to taste of it.
What should someone avoiding titanium dioxide know about these gums?
The ingredients panel we hold lists E171, titanium dioxide, as one of two colours. E171 has not been permitted as a food additive in the European Union since August 2022, and the same applies in Northern Ireland, though it remains permitted in Great Britain. The panel may well predate a reformulation and we are asking the supplier for the current version, so contact us before ordering if this matters to you or if you are ordering to a Northern Ireland address.
Updated October 2026
