Hempthy CBD Imperial Mints 300mg

One a day, which happens to be the right number

Thirty mints at ten milligrams each. The brand and the Amazon listing both describe the pouch as thirty days. So the intended pattern is one mint a day, and one mint a day is ten milligrams.

The Food Standards Agency advises healthy adults to take no more than ten milligrams of CBD a day from food supplements. This pouch, used as the brand describes it, lands exactly on that figure.

We are pointing this out because we have spent a lot of words on this brand doing the opposite. The fifty-piece pouches elsewhere in the range are described as a thirty day supply and work out at around thirty three milligrams a day. The twelve hundred milligram tub prints a serving instruction that comes to between thirty and sixty. Those are fair criticisms and we stand by them, and a shop that only ever criticises is not much use to anyone. This is the product where the arithmetic works, and it is the honest place to point somebody who has not had CBD before.

There is a wrinkle, and it is not the brand's. One UK shop selling these mints tells its readers that the regulator advises up to seventy milligrams a day, and converts that into an instruction to take no more than seven mints. Seven mints is seventy milligrams. The seventy milligram figure was the FSA's, published in February 2020 and replaced on 12 October 2023 by the ten milligram advice. So the same pouch is being described by the brand as a month and by a shop as roughly four days. We set that correction out properly on the pick and mix listing, where the same withdrawn number turns up.

None of this is dosage guidance and we are not telling you what to take. We are making sure that the numbers around this product are the ones the regulator currently stands behind.

One shop is publishing another product's ingredients on this page

While checking the declaration across sellers we found something worth reporting plainly.

One UK site ranking for these mints lists their ingredients as cannabidiol isolate at a thousand milligrams, glucose syrup, sugar, maize starch, modified potato starch, citric acid, flavourings, colours from anthocyanins, paprika extract and curcumin, and plant concentrates of sunflower and spirulina. The same page then tells you to take three to five gummies.

That is the declaration for Hempthy's American Hard Gums. It is the wrong strength, the wrong format, and it lists glucose syrup and colours in a product that contains neither of them. These mints are not a gummy and never have been.

This is not a small thing to get wrong. An ingredient and allergen declaration is a legal requirement rather than marketing copy, and published against the wrong product it misleads in both directions at once. Somebody avoiding sulphites would rule out a product that does not contain any, and somebody who read it and relied on it would have been given a description of something else entirely.

The real list is four items long. We have set out what that means, and how it compares with the rest of the range, on the thousand milligram mints listing rather than repeating the argument here.

What you are actually eating

Cannabidiol isolate, sugar, peppermint oil, and acacia gum as a stabiliser. That is the whole list, and it is the same at both strengths.

Physically it is a traditional mint imperial: a hard sugar shell with a crumbly centre, and a crisp peppermint that is sharp rather than sugary. The CBD tastes of nothing, because isolate carries no plant compounds to taste. The peppermint oil is doing all the work.

The format is the quiet advantage. A mint is sucked over several minutes and a gummy is chewed and gone in seconds, so the sweet paces itself in a way that a chew does not. At ten milligrams a piece that matters less than it does at thirty, but it is still the reason a lot of people prefer mints.

One correction on sourcing, since it turns up on the largest listing for this product. An Amazon title describes these as made with real CBD oil. The declaration on every other seller and on the brand's own page says cannabidiol isolate. Isolate is a purified crystalline powder and CBD oil is an extract suspended in a carrier, which are different inputs. The same title claims non-GMO with no certifier named anywhere. We publish the declaration rather than the title.

Which strength, and where this sits on the shelf

There are two. This pouch holds thirty mints at ten milligrams, and the thousand milligram pouch holds fifty at twenty. Same mint, same four ingredients, same peppermint.

The choice is genuinely simple for once. If you have not had CBD sweets before, this is the one, because ten milligrams a piece is the figure the FSA advises and because a smaller pouch is a smaller commitment to a flavour you may not like. If you already know you get on with peppermint and you want fewer pieces for the same total, the larger pouch is there.

Across the rest of the Hempthy sweet range, ten milligrams a piece is the entry tier and appears on the smaller pouches of hard gums, fizzy bears and sour peaches too. What the mints add is the short ingredient list and the slower eat.

Every seller describes these as third-party lab tested and none publishes a report, which is the position across this brand. On an isolate the gap is narrower than it would be on a full spectrum extract, since there is no THC question left open, but we have asked for the paperwork.

Who should skip this pouch

Anyone who does not want peppermint. There is one flavour, it is strong, and there is no fruit version of this product.

Anyone who already takes CBD in another form. Ten milligrams a mint is a starting figure, and if you are used to a stronger routine you will find this pouch goes quickly.

Anyone avoiding sugar. These are sugar sweets, and the sugar free gummies exist for that reason.

Anyone whose teeth or dental work do not get on with hard sweets. A mint imperial is properly hard and is meant to be sucked, not bitten.

And anyone expecting the short ingredient list to mean more than it does. Four ingredients is a real and checkable advantage over the rest of the range. It says nothing about what the product will do for you, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.