Bubbly Billy Buds Grape Juice and Rainbow Rush Lollipops, 10mg CBD, Box of 100

Two flavours, one box, and the first labels in the range to list CBD as CBD

Grape Juice and Rainbow Rush are 2026 additions to a ten-flavour range, and their ingredient lists name CBD as its own ingredient after the flavouring, where the older flavours fold it into the flavouring line.

The maker, Multitrance in the Netherlands, publishes an ingredient list for every flavour, which is more than most CBD confectionery manages. On the established flavours that list reads sugar, glucose syrup, gum base, citric acid, then a flavouring described as cannabis extract containing CBD, then colouring. Our range overview goes into why calling the CBD a flavouring is an odd way to label it.

The Grape Juice and Rainbow Rush lists are different. Grape Juice reads sugar, glucose syrup, gum base, citric acid, flavour, CBD, and the colouring E163. Rainbow Rush reads the same with flavouring, CBD, and the colourings E132 and E163. The CBD stands on its own line. It is a small change and a better one, because it tells you the cannabinoid is a deliberate ingredient rather than a note in the flavour, and it is the first time the range has labelled it that way. What has not changed is the silence on allergens: neither flavour publishes an allergen statement, and on a sweet with a gum base we would still like one. Ask us before ordering if that matters to you.

Both flavours appear to be recent. The maker's product imagery for them is dated January 2026, and the brand's own round-up article of the range names eight flavours and leaves Rainbow Rush out, while the maker's category page now lists ten. On that evidence Rainbow Rush is the newest Bubbly Billy Buds lolly and Grape Juice is not far behind. The maker does not say so itself, so take that as our reading of its website rather than a published fact.

The rest is as the range: a hard-boiled lolly around a soft bubble gum centre, made in the EU, declared THC free, individually wrapped, with a stated shelf life of 24 months from the date of production. Pick a flavour in the box below and the basket switches to it.

10mg

of CBD in one lolly, the maker's published figure

100

lollies in the display box, one flavour per box

2

of the range's ten flavours on this listing, the newest two

Grape Juice: the purple sweet, not the fruit

Grape Juice tastes of the purple grape sweet everyone knows from childhood, which the maker itself calls an iconic purple sweets taste, and that flavour has very little to do with a bunch of table grapes.

Grape is the most honest flavour name on this box, because the maker's own description gives the game away. It promises deep fruity sweetness and an iconic purple sweets taste, and the second phrase is the accurate one. Purple grape confectionery is a flavour in its own right, descended from the American Concord grape, a dark, musky, foxy variety whose character is carried by a compound that green eating grapes barely contain. That is why grape sweets, grape soda and grape bubble gum all taste of each other and none of them tastes like the fruit bowl. If you grew up on purple chews and grape-flavoured gum, you know this flavour exactly. If you are expecting a wine grape or a green grape, you will not find it.

On this lolly the grape sits in the boiled sugar shell, with the bubble gum centre arriving once the shell is gone. The maker's Grape Juice page uses the words bold and smooth, and in practice a grape boiled sweet is a sweet, rounded, slightly perfumed flavour with less acid bite than the sour flavours in the range. Citric acid is in the recipe, but Grape Juice is not sold as a sour lolly and it does not sit with the Sour Apple, Sour Raspberry and Sour Pineapple end of the range.

The colour comes from a single colouring, E163. That is the anthocyanin family, the same class of pigment that makes real grape skins, blackcurrants and red cabbage purple, and the one colouring the maker uses across several of its darker flavours. The maker does not say which plant its E163 is extracted from, so we do not either.

Rainbow Rush: a mixed-fruit lolly the maker does not itemise

Rainbow Rush is sold as a lively mix of sweet fruity notes, and neither the maker nor our distributor names a single fruit in it, so the honest description is a tutti-frutti boiled sweet with a blue-and-purple colouring.

Every other flavour in the Bubbly Billy Buds range is a single named fruit or sweet. Rainbow Rush is the exception. The maker's page calls it a colourful candy classic with a burst of flavour and layered sweet fruity notes, and our distributor's listing says assorted fruity flavours, but nobody lists the fruits. We have read both pages twice and there is no itemised flavour anywhere.

That is not unusual for a rainbow sweet. The tutti-frutti style is a blended flavour by design, usually built on a base of banana, strawberry and citrus notes, and it is sold on brightness rather than on any one fruit. What we can say with confidence is that it is sweet rather than sour, that it is the most generically fruity lolly in the range, and that it is the one to pick if you do not want a committed flavour. What we cannot say is what it tastes most of, because the maker has not told anyone.

The colour is two colourings together: E132, indigo carmine, which is a synthetic blue, and E163, the plant-derived purple used in the Grape Juice. The rainbow in the name is in the wrapper and the design rather than in a multi-coloured lolly; the maker's page describes the lolly's look as a bright candy classic and its ingredient list names only those two colours.

Rainbow Rush is also one of the six flavours in the maker's Juicy flavour mix masterbox, alongside Peach Fuzz, Cotton Candy, Sour Raspberry, Blue Raspberry and Sour Pineapple. That is a trade bundle rather than something we stock, but it tells you which company the maker thinks this flavour keeps.

What 10mg a lolly adds up to across a box of 100

One lolly carries 10mg, which is exactly the Food Standards Agency's advisory figure for a day, and a box of 100 is a hundred days at one a day.

Ten milligrams is the number the Food Standards Agency advises healthy adults not to exceed in a day from CBD food supplements, under its precautionary advice revised in October 2023. A Bubbly Billy Buds lolly is exactly that. The range overview sets out why that makes a 10mg lolly a more interesting number than it looks, and our guide to how much CBD to take covers where the FSA figure came from. The FSA figure is advice, not a dose, and we issue no dose of our own.

What this box changes is quantity. One hundred lollies at one a day is a hundred days, which is longer than most people want to commit to a single flavour. The slider does the arithmetic. The practical point is in the final section: a display box is a retailer's unit, and for one person it is a lot of lollipops.

A note on our own record. The catalogue line for this product shows no strength figure, which is a gap in how the range imports rather than a statement about the lolly. The maker is unambiguous: 10mg in each one, and that is the figure used throughout this page and in the strip beside the photo.

Legal in the EU is not the UK test, and neither colour needs a warning

The maker's claim that the lollies are legal for consumption in the EU is true as far as it goes, but the UK test is 1mg of controlled cannabinoids per container, and a declared 0% THC lolly should clear it comfortably.

Every Bubbly Billy Buds listing carries the maker's line that the product is 100 per cent legal for consumption in the European Union, with 0% THC and no narcotic effect. The UK left the EU, and the UK consumer test is the one in the box above. In practice a lolly declared THC free is the easy case: a container with no THC in it cannot exceed a THC limit. But the claim is the maker's, it is not a batch certificate, and we have not seen one for these two flavours. Our guide to whether CBD is legal in the UK explains the test in full, and our lab reports page explains what a certificate should show.

Ingestible CBD also sits under the Food Standards Agency's Novel Foods regime, and nothing on this page claims these lollies hold an authorisation. The range overview covers what we know about that.

On colourings, this is the one place the two flavours on this listing come out well against some of their siblings. UK and EU labelling rules require six colours to be sold with a statement that they may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children: E102, E104, E110, E122, E124 and E129. Grape Juice uses E163 and Rainbow Rush uses E132 and E163. Neither flavour uses any of the six. Other flavours in the range use different colourings, which the range overview and the individual flavour pages set out, so if the warning list matters to you, these two are the straightforward choice. Everything on this site is 18+ only, regardless of what the colours are.

Who should buy a box of 100, and who should not

A display box is a unit built for a shop counter, and it suits a household that shares, a gift-giver, or anyone who has already found a flavour they like; it does not suit a first try.

One hundred lollies is a hundred lollies. The box is individually wrapped and the maker gives it a 24-month shelf life from production, so it will keep, but it is a commitment to one flavour. Grape Juice and Rainbow Rush are only sold by the hundred here; the five-lolly gift box we stock comes in Passion Fruit and Sour Raspberry rather than these two, so there is no small pack of either flavour on our shelf to try first.

A few things the maker's pages do not say and ours should. The lolly is sugar and glucose syrup first, so it is confectionery with CBD in it, not a supplement in a sweet costume. The bubble gum centre is a gum base, which is usually synthetic, and no vegan or vegetarian status is published for the range. And a bowl of brightly wrapped lollipops on a counter is exactly the thing to keep out of a child's reach; these are adult products that look like children's sweets.

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