Hempthy CBD Cherry Cola Bottles 900mg

Cola and cherry cola are genuinely two products

We hold three Hempthy bottle listings: bubblegum, cherry cola and plain cola. Two of the three are cola-based, they carry the same nine hundred milligrams across the same thirty pieces at the same thirty milligrams each, and they arrive under different names with different reference codes.

That pattern has meant a duplicate before. Elsewhere in this catalogue we found two listings of the identical Euphoria cookie pot, one called Cannabis Cookies and one called CBD Cookies, and separately we found one gummy bear sold under three different brand names by the same manufacturer. So the suspicion here was reasonable and we went and checked rather than assuming either way.

Hempthy makes three bottle flavours. Cola, cherry cola and bubblegum are three distinct products in one range, not one product wearing three labels.

We are telling you this rather than quietly moving on because anyone comparing the two cola listings will have the same doubt, and the useful thing a shop can do is answer it. If the two had turned out to be the same sweet we would have said that instead.

So the choice between them is a flavour choice and nothing else. Everything measurable about the two tubs is identical.

Three products, three ways of naming them

One thing does differ between the three, and it is our own doing rather than the maker's.

Our catalogue calls them Hempthy CBD Gummy Cherry Cola Bottles, Hempthy CBD Gummy Bubblegum Bottles, and Hempthy Cola Bottle CBD Gummies with the pack count on the end. Three members of one range, three different word orders, and only one of the three telling you how many are in the tub.

That is the sixth time in this run of pages we have found a product name arriving from the feed in a shape that does not match its siblings. It is not misleading, it is just untidy, and it makes the range harder to compare than it needs to be. We are having the names normalised.

There is a second naming quirk, this one the brand's. Hempthy calls this range CBD Fizzy Cola Bottles, using fizzy in the sense of a fizzy drink. It also has a fizzy range of bears and peach rings where fizzy means an acid dusting on the outside of the sweet. Two meanings of one word inside one brand, which is worth knowing if you are shopping by that word.

What is in the tub

Thirty gummies at thirty milligrams of CBD isolate each, nine hundred milligrams in total, made in the UK from isolate at ninety nine point nine per cent, vegan, and stated THC free.

The colours are published as E129 and E133, which is shorter than the four the fizzy range carries and different again from the plant colours in the hard gums. We have set out how those palettes compare on the bubblegum bottles listing rather than repeating it here. One caution about relying on that: the brand publishes a four-colour declaration for its plain cola bottles and a two-colour one for its bubblegum bottles, which are the same sweet at the same strength, so the declarations across this sub-range do not agree with each other. The cola bottles listing sets out what that means if you are avoiding a specific colour.

Sulphites are declared in the glucose syrup. This is the eighth Hempthy product we have written up and the eighth time not one UK retailer selling it mentions them.

Thirty milligrams in a single gummy is worth a sentence of context. The Food Standards Agency advises healthy adults to take no more than ten milligrams a day from food supplements, so one of these is three times that. Nothing here is dosage guidance, but it does mean this tub is not a starting point, and Hempthy's three hundred milligram pouches at ten milligrams a piece are.

What cherry cola tastes like as a sweet

Cherry cola as a confectionery flavour is a specific and quite old idea, and it is not simply cola with cherry added. The cherry used is the dark, almost medicinal glace cherry note rather than a fresh fruit one, and it sits underneath the cola rather than beside it.

The result is deeper and rounder than plain cola, with less of the sharp citrus-and-spice edge that a straight cola bottle has. People who find plain cola sweets a bit thin usually prefer this one. People who want the classic cola bottle taste will find the cherry muddies it.

The bottle shape is the traditional mould, thicker through the middle than a bear, so it is a longer chew than most gummies. At thirty milligrams that is arguably a feature: a sweet you cannot finish in two seconds makes reaching for a second one a decision rather than a reflex.

As with everything made from isolate, there is nothing of the CBD in the taste. No terpenes, so no herbal note at all.

Where it sits in the range

Hempthy runs three per-piece tiers across its sweets, at ten, twenty and thirty milligrams. The bottles sit at the top alongside the twelve hundred milligram fizzy tub.

If the flavour is what brought you here, the comparison worth making is against the other two bottles. If the strength is what brought you here, the comparison is against the rest of the thirty milligram tier.

Who should skip this tub

Anyone who wanted the classic cola bottle taste. The cherry is not a garnish here, it changes the whole flavour, and the plain cola tub is the same product without it.

Anyone new to CBD. Thirty milligrams in one gummy is three times the daily figure the FSA suggests and a gummy does not halve reliably.

Anyone avoiding allura red or sulphites, both of which are in this tub as they are across the bottles range.

And anyone hoping the two cola listings were the same thing and one of them was a mistake. They are two flavours, so if you want both you will need both, which is a duller answer than the alternative but it is the true one.