Aztec CBD Dew Drops, 900mg, 30 Gummies

The arithmetic on this pouch is the best on the shelf

Nine hundred milligrams per pouch. Thirty gummies. Thirty milligrams each. Multiply the last two and you get the first, which sounds like a low bar until you have read a few dozen listings in this category.

For contrast, and these are all products we sell: a CBD chewing gum in this range hides its per-piece figure behind a blister total, so a 36mg pack is really 3mg a piece. A lollipop range carries a ten milligram figure the brand publishes and our own catalogue records as zero. Two Multitrance drinks on the same shelf use opposite conventions, one quoting per sachet and the other per pack. Against all that, Aztec printing thirty milligrams a gummy on the front is a genuine kindness.

So if you want a CBD sweet where you can tell what you are actually eating without doing long division, this range is well labelled and we would rather say so than only find fault.

One figure is unresolved. A wholesaler describes the bag as 150 grams, a weight nobody else publishes and which we have not been able to confirm. It does not change the CBD content, which is stated for each gummy, but we mention it because we have not verified it.

The dosing advice on the pack is six times what the FSA now advises

This needs stating plainly, because it comes from the brand rather than from a reseller, and because our own distributor reproduces it word for word.

The manufacturer's own product page gives a recommended daily dose of two gummies, which it puts at sixty milligrams of CBD, and then sets a ceiling of not exceeding seventy milligrams a day.

The Food Standards Agency revised its precautionary advice for healthy adults down to no more than ten milligrams of CBD a day from food supplements. That happened in October 2023, adopting advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.

So the recommended dose on this product is six times the FSA figure, one gummy on its own is three times it, and the seventy milligram ceiling is the older number that the 2023 revision replaced. We have now found that superseded seventy milligram figure on four separate products in this catalogue, which suggests the whole trade updated its packaging late or not at all.

We are not going to tell you what to take, and the FSA figure is precautionary consumer advice rather than a legal limit or a safety threshold. What we will do is put the two numbers next to each other, which is something no page selling this product does, and let you decide with both in front of you. Our guide to CBD amounts goes through where the FSA figure came from and what it does and does not mean.

Nobody can agree what the extract in these actually is

Four statements about the composition, and they do not fit together.

Our own catalogue records the extract as isolate. The brand's own page does not say at all, in either direction. One UK retailer describes it as broad spectrum CBD in its prose and then lists cannabidiol isolate in its ingredients. The same retailer puts 900mg in the title and 600mg in the ingredient list.

And that retailer's THC statement is printed with the sign pointing the wrong way, so as written it reads as a claim that the product contains more than the cultivation figure rather than less. That is almost certainly a typo, and we mention it only because it is on the page a buyer will read next.

Our reading, with the sourcing made explicit: isolate is the better-supported answer, because our catalogue says so and the only ingredient list published anywhere agrees. It also fits the THC-free claim more comfortably than broad spectrum would. But the brand has not confirmed it and we have asked.

Why it matters at all: an isolate has the CBD separated from everything else in the plant, so a THC-free claim on it is straightforward. Broad spectrum retains more of the plant and the claim needs more care. Being told both about one product is not helpful.

The ingredient list, the allergen and the two colours that need a warning

One page in the whole set publishes an ingredient list. It reads: cannabidiol isolate, glucose syrup, sulphites, sugar, corn starch, water, citric and malic acid, an acidity regulator, flavourings, and the colours E102, E129, E133 and E132.

Three things in that worth pulling out. First, sulphites are a declared allergen and they appear on exactly one page in this entire market, flagged with an asterisk. The brand's own page does not mention them.

Second, E102 and E129. Both are among the small group of colours for which UK and EU labelling requires a statement that they may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children. Two of them are in this recipe and not one page selling these prints that wording.

Third, there is no gelatine in that list. That does not make these vegan and we are not going to say it does, because no page states a vegan or vegetarian position either way and gelatine is not the only animal ingredient a sweet can contain. If it matters to you, ask us and we will get the current panel rather than infer from an absence.

Both the brand and our distributor describe the range as triple lab tested for purity. Purity testing screens for what should not be in a product, such as solvents, pesticides and heavy metals. It is worth having. It is a different document from a cannabinoid assay confirming the milligram content, and the two should not be read as one.

Six shapes, one recipe

Aztec makes this gummy in six shapes and we stock all of them. The distributor's description is identical across all six apart from the shape name in the opening line, and every one is 900mg, thirty gummies, thirty milligrams each.

So the choice between them is texture and shape rather than strength or formulation. The fizzy ones carry a sour coating, the others do not, and that is the real decision.

We list them as six separate products at the moment, which is more separation than the products deserve, and we are consolidating that.

Who this is not for

Anyone who wants to follow the pack's dosing advice without knowing what it means. Two gummies is sixty milligrams, which is six times what the FSA advises for a day. If you are new to CBD, thirty milligrams in a single sweet with no way to halve it is a lot to start on.

Anyone avoiding sulphites. They are a declared allergen in the only ingredient list published for this product, and they appear nowhere on the brand's own page.

Anyone buying for, or around, children. Two of the four colours in the recipe are ones that require a statutory warning about children's activity and attention, and nobody selling these prints it. These are 18+ products regardless.

Anyone who needs to know whether the extract is isolate or broad spectrum before ordering. The brand does not say, our catalogue says isolate, and a retailer says both. We have asked and will update this page when we have an answer.

And anyone who wants a small dose. There is no smaller Aztec gummy: every shape in the range is thirty milligrams. If you want ten or fifteen milligrams a sweet, other brands on our shelves do that and this one does not.