Aztec CBD Dummies 900mg, 30 Soft Gummies a Pouch

What a Dummy is, and what nobody will tell you about its flavour

A Dummy is the soother-shaped soft gum from the pick and mix counter, and no seller of this one, including the brand, states its flavour consistently.

Start with the shape, because the name confuses people outside the UK. A dummy is the sweet-shop version of a baby's soother: a round soft gum with a short stem and a little ring, the shape that turns up in every pick and mix bag next to the cola bottles. Aztec has taken that classic and made it in a CBD recipe. It is a soft, chewy gum with a smooth surface and no sugar crust, which puts it in a different texture bracket from the three fizzy shapes in the same range.

Now the flavour, and this is where the published information falls apart. The brand's own Dummies page says the sweet is bursting with apple, raspberry and pineapple, and then, further down the same page, that it is flavoured with cherry. Those are two different sweets. The same page also carries a stray line about refill pods, copied from one of the brand's vape listings. One reseller trims all of that to bursting with flavour. Another says nothing about taste at all.

What we can say with confidence is narrower than we would like. Shop dummies are traditionally a mixed fruit gum, and the only ingredient list anyone publishes for this range says flavourings, plural, with no fruit named. So the honest description is a sweet, mixed-fruit soft gum. If you need to know it is cherry rather than raspberry before you buy, nobody selling it can tell you that today, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. We have asked the distributor for the current label.

One more number worth doing the arithmetic on. Three separate sources now put the pouch at 150 grams. Thirty gummies into 150 grams is about five grams a sweet, which is a big, dense gum rather than a small jelly. The first three ingredients after the extract are glucose syrup, sugar and corn starch, so think of these as confectionery. Nothing about the CBD changes what five grams of gum is made of.

30mg

of CBD in one Dummy, printed on the pouch

30

gummies in a 150g pouch, about 5g each

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sour coating. This is one of the three soft shapes

Is it vegan? The brand says yes, a label reader says beef gelatine

Two published sources flatly contradict each other, so until we hold a current label we are not calling this sweet vegan.

The brand's gummies category page describes the whole range as vegan CBD gummies. That is the only place the word appears on the brand's site; the Dummies product page itself does not mention it.

Against that, the one detailed independent review of this range we can find, written about the Fizzy Bottles, reports beef gelatine on the label and says in terms that the sweet is not vegan or vegetarian. A reviewer who has the pouch in hand and reads the ingredient panel aloud is a better source than a category blurb, but it is a review of a sibling shape, not of the Dummies.

The one ingredient list published by a retailer names neither gelatine nor pectin, which is odd in itself, because a soft gum has to be set with something. It lists cannabidiol isolate, glucose syrup, sulphites, sugar, corn starch, water, citric and malic acid, an acidity regulator, flavourings and four colours. Corn starch on its own can set a soft gum, so the list is not impossible, but a list that omits the setting agent is not a list we would rely on for a dietary decision.

Our position is simple. A vegan claim that one reader of the label contradicts is not a claim we will repeat. If you are vegan or vegetarian, do not buy this on the strength of the brand's category page. Ask us first and we will get the current panel from the distributor, and the sentence above will change the day we have it. Two gummies on our shelf where the vegan position is settled and published are the Hempthy cola bottles, which match this sweet at 30mg each, and the Orange County 1,200mg tub, which is pectin set.

Isolate, broad spectrum or full spectrum? Three sellers, three answers

Our record says isolate, the brand says broad spectrum, and one UK retailer lists it as full spectrum and THC free on the same spec sheet, which cannot both hold.

Every seller agrees the sweet is THC free. They do not agree on anything else about the extract, and the disagreement has got wider since the summer. The table lays out each source and the exact word it uses.

Why it matters is not academic. An isolate is CBD separated from everything else in the plant, so a THC-free claim on it is straightforward. Broad spectrum keeps other plant compounds but has the THC removed during processing, so the claim still works but depends on the process. Full spectrum, by definition, keeps the THC that was in the plant. A spec list reading full spectrum on one line and THC free on the next is describing two different products, and the only thing that settles it is a batch certificate showing the cannabinoid panel. Our guide to reading a CBD lab report shows what that panel looks like.

Our best reading, with the sourcing stated: isolate. Our catalogue records it, and the only ingredient list anywhere names cannabidiol isolate as the first ingredient. The brand's broad spectrum wording appears on a category page rather than on the product, and the full spectrum wording appears on one reseller's listing and nowhere else. But the brand has not confirmed it, so the label strip beside the photo says disputed rather than settled. The differences between the three grades are set out in our broad spectrum versus full spectrum guide.

Where the 1mg rule leaves a THC-free gummy

The UK consumer test is no more than 1mg of controlled cannabinoids in the whole container, whatever its size, and a THC-free isolate gummy is the easiest kind of product to keep inside it.

One retailer selling this range prints a THC figure as a percentage with the greater-than sign where a less-than sign was plainly meant, so as written it claims the sweet exceeds a cultivation threshold. It is a typo. It is also the wrong kind of number. The 0.2 per cent figure, now 0.3, is a Home Office rule about the standing hemp crop grown under licence. It says nothing about what a consumer may buy. The full argument is in our guide to whether CBD is legal in the UK.

For this sweet, the practical point is reassuring if the isolate reading is right. An isolate has had the THC removed before it goes anywhere near a gummy, so a 150g pouch sitting under 1mg in total is the expected outcome rather than a tight margin. If the full spectrum listing were the accurate one, that expectation would not hold, which is one more reason the extract question above is not a quibble.

Two other things apply to every gummy on this site. Ingestible CBD sits under the Food Standards Agency's Novel Foods regime, and nothing on this page should be read as a statement that this product is authorised; our Novel Foods guide explains what the public list is and is not. And everything here is 18+ only.

Soft or fizzy? The only real choice in the Aztec range

All six Aztec shapes are 900mg pouches of thirty 30mg gummies, so choosing one is choosing a texture, and the Dummies sit on the soft side with the Dew Drops and the Worms.

This is the decision no seller frames, because every seller has pasted the same paragraph six times. Brand, strength, count, extract and recipe are identical across the range. What differs is whether the gummy has a sour sugar coating.

Three shapes are soft and smooth: the Dummies on this page, the Dew Drops and the Worms. Three carry a crunchy sour crust: the Fizzy Bears, the Fizzy Bottles and the Fizzy Cherries. The one independent reviewer of the range singled out that crunchy coating as the thing they liked most about the bottles. If that is what you want, the Dummies are the wrong pouch. If you find sour sugar harsh, or you want a gum that dissolves quietly rather than crackles, the Dummies are the right one.

Among the three soft shapes, the Dummies are the chunkiest single piece. A Dew Drop is a small domed drop, a Worm is long and thin, and a Dummy is a solid round gum with a stem, which makes it the slowest of the three to chew through. That is the whole difference, and it is a fair one to choose on.

The comparison widget below pulls the live shelf, so it also shows two gummies from other brands at or near the same strength, which the brand's own pages cannot do.

What 30mg in one gummy adds up to, and what the pouch tells you to do

One Dummy is three times the Food Standards Agency's advisory figure of 10mg a day, and the pouch recommends two.

The brand prints a recommended daily amount of two gummies, 60mg, with a ceiling of 70mg a day, and both resellers in the ranking set reproduce it. The Food Standards Agency revised its precautionary advice for healthy adults down to no more than 10mg of CBD a day from food supplements in October 2023, adopting advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The 70mg figure is the one that revision replaced.

We are not going to tell you what to take, and the FSA number is consumer advice rather than a legal limit. What we will do is put the two figures side by side, which no page selling this sweet does, and point you to our guide on how much CBD to take for where the advisory figure came from. The slider below only does arithmetic: it shows what a given number of Dummies a day comes to and how long one pouch lasts at that rate.

One practical note on the pack. A Dummy is a solid gum, so it can be cut, but the CBD is not guaranteed to be spread evenly through a moulded sweet, so half a Dummy is roughly 15mg rather than exactly 15mg. If you want a sweet that is genuinely 10mg, buy a 10mg sweet; several on our CBD gummies shelf are made that way.

How we sell it, and who should pick a different pouch

We sell this gummy in the pack size shown beside the photo, and it is the wrong pouch for a beginner, a vegan, or anyone who wanted the sour crust.

The pack size we sell is shown in the label strip beside the photo and in the basket box, and it is set by how our distributor supplies the line rather than by anything on the pouch. Each pouch inside it is the same 150g, thirty-gummy, 900mg pouch described on this page.

Two colours in the published recipe, E102 and E129, are among the small group for which UK labelling rules require a statement that they may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children. Sulphites are also listed, and they are a declared allergen. Neither point appears on the brand's Dummies page, and both are set out in full on our Dew Drops page, which covers the ingredient list line by line.

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