Aztec CBD Fizzy Bottles 900mg, 30 Sour Cola Bottles a Pouch

The only Aztec gummy whose flavour is actually documented

An independent reviewer who ate the Fizzy Bottles in December 2024 describes a bold cola flavour with vanilla and lime notes under a crunchy sugar coating, which is the only first-hand flavour account of any Aztec gummy we have found.

Five of the six Aztec gummy shapes are described, by the brand and by every reseller, with a template paragraph that changes only the shape name. The Fizzy Bottles are the exception, not because the brand wrote anything different but because somebody else did. A UK CBD blog published a full review of this pouch on 5 December 2024, with the sweet in front of them, and it is the only piece of writing about an Aztec gummy that describes what one is actually like to eat.

What they describe is a classic cola bottle done properly. The flavour is called bold and authentic cola, with distinct notes of vanilla and lime and a balance of sweetness and tang. The aroma on opening the pouch is a strong but pleasant cola. The texture is chewy under a crunchy sugar coating, and the coating is the thing the reviewer liked most. That matches what a fizzy cola bottle is supposed to be: the familiar brown-and-clear two-tone bottle, a firmer chew than a bear, and an acid-sugar crust that fizzes for a second or two before the cola comes through.

Now the brand's own page for the same sweet. Its single flavour statement is that the bottles are flavoured with cherry. That sentence also appears, word for word, on the brand's Dummies and Fizzy Bears pages, so it is a template line that was never written about a cola bottle at all. A cola sweet described as cherry by its own maker is the clearest evidence we have that nobody at the brand wrote the product copy, and it is why we rely on the independent review as the better source on flavour.

One thing the review and the brand do agree on is the arithmetic: thirty bottles, 30mg each, 900mg a pouch, and the reviewer adds the 150g weight from the pack, which makes a bottle about five grams of sweet. That is confectionery first, with cola the dominant note and no reported hemp taste under it.

30mg

of CBD in one cola bottle, printed on the pouch

150g

pouch of thirty, confirmed by the reviewer from the pack

Dec 2024

the one in-hand independent review of this shape

Aztec Fizzy Bottles or Hempthy cola bottles: spec twins, different sweets

Both are thirty cola bottles at 30mg each, but Aztec's has a sour crust and reported beef gelatine in a resealable pouch, while Hempthy's is uncoated, vegan and sold in a tub.

On paper the two cola bottles on our shelf are the same product. Same shape, same count, same 30mg, same 900mg, both recorded as isolate. In the mouth they are not, and the difference is the surface.

The Aztec bottle is dusted with the acid-sugar crust that makes a sweet fizzy, which is why the reviewer's first comment is about crunch. The Hempthy cola bottle has no acid dusting at all; its citric and malic acid is inside the gum, and the word fizzy in Hempthy's name refers to the drink rather than a coating. If you want the sour-crust experience, Aztec is the one. If you find a sour coating harsh, Hempthy's is the plain cola bottle.

The second difference is what sets the gum. Hempthy publishes a vegan position and sets its bottles with starch. For the Aztec pouch, the reviewer reports beef gelatine on the label and says in terms that the sweet is not vegan or vegetarian, while the brand's category page calls its range vegan. A label read with the pouch in hand outranks a category blurb, so this page records the Aztec bottle as not vegan until the brand shows otherwise. The full three-way tangle of what Aztec says about its own recipe is on our Dummies page and is not repeated here.

Third, the pack. Aztec's is a resealable pouch, which the reviewer found locked back securely. Hempthy's is a tub. For a sour-coated sweet, a tub keeps the crust drier once opened, but the Aztec bottle is the only one of the two with a crust to protect, so that point cuts both ways. The live comparison under the table reads today's shelf and sorts by strength and extract.

What we take from the review, and what we leave in it

We use the review for what the reviewer saw, tasted and read off the label, and we do not repeat what they say the sweet did to them, because a retailer is not permitted to make those claims and should not launder them through a quotation.

An honest page about a product with one independent review has to say how it is using that review. So, plainly: we take the sensory description, because it is first-hand and specific. We take the label facts, meaning the 150g weight, the thirty-bottle count, the gluten-free statement and the beef gelatine, because they were read off the pack. We take the resealable pouch comment, and we take the two cautions in the reviewer's own cons list, which are that the 30mg amount might be too strong for beginners and that the sweet is not vegan or vegetarian.

We leave the rest. The review attaches a list of effects to the sweet and calls the amount ideal for certain purposes. Those are health claims. Under UK medicines and advertising rules a CBD food supplement cannot be sold on claims like that, and quoting somebody else making them is the same thing as making them. One person's account of one gummy on one afternoon is also not evidence of anything, which the reviewer would probably accept. What CBD does or does not do is not a question a shop should answer, and our learn section is where the published research is discussed with the hedges it needs.

The brand's own page carries the opposite problem. It makes no sensory claims at all, but it does carry the dosing instruction discussed next, and that comes from the manufacturer rather than a blogger, which makes it the more serious of the two.

Two bottles a day is 60mg, and the reviewer's own caution

The pouch recommends two bottles a day, which is six times the Food Standards Agency's 10mg advisory figure, and the only person to review the sweet independently warns that one bottle may be too much for a beginner.

Every Aztec pouch prints the same three lines: one gummy is 30mg, the recommended daily amount is two gummies at 60mg, and the ceiling is 70mg a day. In October 2023 the Food Standards Agency revised its precautionary advice for healthy adults down to no more than 10mg of CBD a day from food supplements, adopting advice from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. The 70mg ceiling on the pouch is the figure that revision replaced. Our guide to how much CBD to take sets out where the advisory number came from and what it does and does not mean.

We report that conflict and we do not issue an amount of our own. What is worth adding here is that the independent reviewer, who was positive about the sweet, listed the 30mg amount as a con and said it might be too strong for beginners, having started with a single bottle. That is a caution from someone with no reason to make it, and we pass it on. The slider does arithmetic only.

A cola bottle is easier to split than a bear, since it is long, but the crust shatters and the CBD is not guaranteed to be even through a moulded sweet, so half a bottle is a rough 15mg. If 10mg is your reference point, a sweet made at 10mg is the honest object, and the CBD gummies shelf has several.

Gelatine, gluten, and what the 1mg rule asks of a 150g pouch

The pouch as a whole must hold under 1mg of controlled cannabinoids, however big it is, and a THC-free isolate is the easiest recipe to keep inside that.

Three dietary facts, each with its source. Beef gelatine: reported from the label by the reviewer, so the sweet is not vegan, not vegetarian, and not something we would describe as halal or kosher without a certificate the brand has not published. Gluten free: stated in the same review, and consistent with the only published ingredient list, which uses corn starch and no wheat. Sulphites and the colours E102 and E129, which carry a statutory warning about children's activity and attention: from that ingredient list, and set out line by line on our Dew Drops page.

On the law, a 150g pouch gets no larger THC allowance than a 10ml bottle of oil. The limit is per container and is a flat milligram, which is the whole reason the cultivation percentage some retailers quote is the wrong number; one seller of this range prints it with the sign the wrong way round. Our catalogue records this bottle as an isolate, which has the THC removed before it reaches the gum, so a pouch under 1mg is the expected outcome rather than a tight margin. The review calls it broad spectrum and one retailer calls it full spectrum; that contradiction is tabulated on the Dummies page and only a batch certificate settles it. The longer argument is in our guide to whether CBD is legal in the UK. Ingestible CBD also sits under the Novel Foods regime, and nothing here claims the product is authorised. 18+ only.

Who the Fizzy Bottles are right for, and who should pick another cola bottle

Right for someone who wants a sour-crusted cola bottle at 30mg and does not need it vegan; wrong for a beginner, a vegetarian, or anyone who wanted a plain cola gum.

The pack size we sell is shown in the label strip beside the photo and in the basket box; it is set by how our distributor supplies the line, and each pouch inside it is the 150g, thirty-bottle pouch described here.

Within the Aztec range the Bottles are the chewiest of the three fizzy shapes, firmer than the Fizzy Bears and larger than the Fizzy Cherries. They are also the only shape where you know the flavour before you open the pouch.

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