Hempthy CBD Imperial Mints 1000mg

Four ingredients, and what is missing from the list

The full declaration reads: cannabidiol isolate, sugar, peppermint oil, and acacia gum as a stabiliser. That is the whole thing.

Set that against the rest of the range. Every other Hempthy sweet is built on glucose syrup, and every one of them declares sulphites, because the sulphites are in the glucose syrup. Most of them also carry synthetic colours, including E102 and E129, which are two of the six that UK law requires to be sold with a statement about children's activity and attention.

These mints have none of it. No glucose syrup, so no sulphites. No colours at all, synthetic or otherwise, because a mint imperial is white and has no reason to be anything else. No gelatine, which is why the brand describes the range as vegan and halal friendly.

That makes this the product to look at if the ingredient lists elsewhere on our CBD sweets shelf have put you off. We have written that warning on ten Hempthy pages now and this is the one that does not need it.

Acacia gum is worth a word since it is the only thing on the list that sounds technical. It is gum arabic, the dried sap of the acacia tree, and it has been used to bind sugar confectionery for a very long time. It carries the additive number E414 and is not one of the colours the warning statement applies to.

A sweet that paces itself

The brand describes these as a hard sugar shell with a crumbly centre, which is a fair account of a mint imperial. Crisp peppermint, sharp rather than sugary, and nothing of the CBD to taste because isolate carries no plant compounds at all.

The important difference from everything else in the range is not the flavour, it is the format. A mint imperial is sucked. A gummy is chewed and gone in seconds.

That matters more than it sounds. Across this shelf the honest caution on strong sweets is always the same: an appealing chew gives you no signal to stop, and the strength is invisible. A mint that takes several minutes to finish builds the pause in by itself. If the reason you have hesitated over CBD sweets is that you know you would eat a handful, this is the format that answers it.

The peppermint helps too. It is a strong, cleansing flavour rather than a moreish one, and it does not invite a second one straight after the first in the way a sour fruit coating does.

Strength, pack and how much that works out at

Twenty milligrams a mint, fifty mints, a thousand milligrams in the pouch. The three hundred milligram version is thirty mints at ten milligrams each, which is the same pattern the brand uses across its pouches.

One thing to be aware of before you order. Some UK shops selling these state that the food safety regulator advises up to seventy milligrams of CBD a day, and set a ceiling of three or four mints on that basis. That figure was the FSA's, but it was published in February 2020 and replaced on 12 October 2023. The current precautionary advice for healthy adults is no more than ten milligrams a day from food supplements. We have set that correction out in full on the pick and mix listing, since the same stale number turns up there.

The pouch is also described by the brand as a thirty day supply, which at twenty milligrams a mint implies around thirty three milligrams a day. That arithmetic is worked through on the hard gums listing rather than repeated here.

Nothing on this page is dosage guidance and we are not telling you what to take. We are making sure the figures you are given to think with are the ones the regulator currently publishes.

Where the mints sit against the rest of the shelf

Twenty milligrams a piece puts these in the middle of Hempthy's range. The smaller pouches run at ten a piece and the tubs at thirty.

Against the brand's other sweets the trade is straightforward. The gummies give you fruit flavours, a sour coating if you want one, and a longer ingredient list. The mints give you one flavour, a much shorter list, and a slower eat.

Against the rest of our CBD sweets shelf, a peppermint imperial is genuinely unusual. Most CBD confectionery is fruit-flavoured and chewy, because that is what sells, so if peppermint is what you actually want there is not much choosing to be done.

Every seller describes the mints as third-party lab tested and none publishes a report, which is the same position as the rest of the brand. On an isolate that gap is narrower than it would be on a full spectrum product, because there is no THC question left open, but we have asked for the paperwork.

Who should skip these

Anyone who does not like peppermint. There is no second flavour and no fruit version. The strength of the mint is the point of it.

Anyone new to CBD. Twenty milligrams is twice the daily figure the FSA advises, and the three hundred milligram pouch at ten milligrams a mint is the sensible place to start.

Anyone who wants sugar-free. These are sugar sweets, and Hempthy makes a sugar free gummy for exactly that reason.

Anyone with dental work that hard sweets are unkind to. A mint imperial is properly hard, and it is meant to be sucked rather than bitten.

And anyone hoping the clean ingredient list means something more than it does. It means no colours and no sulphites, which is worth having. It does not tell you anything about how well the product works, and nobody should pretend otherwise.