Multitrance
Bubbly Billy Buds Sour Pineapple CBD Lollipops, Gift Box of 5
£6.99
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A gift box of five sour pineapple CBD lollipops with a bubblegum centre, 10mg of CBD in each. Made in the EU, no THC. 18+ only.
- Free UK delivery on orders over £30
- Third-party lab-tested — COA on every batch
- Discreet plain packaging, no branding outside
- Sold to over-18s only, age-checked at checkout
Multitrance Bubbly Billy Buds CBD Sour Pineapple Lollypops are sour pineapple lollipops with a bubblegum centre, five to a gift box, carrying ten milligrams of CBD in each one. They are made in the EU and contain no THC. Here is the thing worth knowing that nobody selling them mentions: almost everything people associate with pineapple, the tingle, the raw tongue, the way it wrecks a jelly, comes from an enzyme that cannot survive being turned into a boiled sweet. The sourness in this lolly is added acid instead, and that makes it a gentler thing than the fruit it is named after.
Why fresh pineapple stings and this does not
Pineapple is the only common fruit that fights back, and there is a specific reason for it.
The fruit contains a group of enzymes, collectively called bromelain, that break down protein. They are concentrated in the stem and present throughout the flesh, and they do not stop working when you eat them. That prickling, slightly raw feeling on the tongue and lips after a lot of fresh pineapple is those enzymes acting on the surface of your mouth, which repairs itself quickly and is why the sensation fades.
The same enzymes are the reason a cookbook will tell you never to put fresh pineapple in a jelly. Gelatine is protein, bromelain digests protein, and the jelly simply refuses to set. Tinned pineapple works perfectly well in the same recipe.
That last detail is the key to this product. Bromelain is destroyed by heat. Canning it, cooking it or boiling it into sugar syrup denatures the enzyme and it stops doing anything at all. A hard-boiled lollipop made with pineapple flavouring contains none of it.
So a sour pineapple sweet gets its sourness from an entirely different mechanism than the fruit does, which is worth knowing if you have ever avoided fresh pineapple because of how it feels rather than how it tastes. This will not do that.
What sour is actually made of
If the tingle is not enzymes, what is it. The answer is on the ingredient list and it is short.
The declared acidulant in these lollipops is citric acid, the same compound that makes citrus fruit sharp, and it is the workhorse of the sour confectionery trade. Citric gives a bright, immediate sourness that arrives fast and clears fast, which suits a fruit flavour that is already sharp.
It is not the only option. Malic acid, the one you meet in green apple sweets, is slower to arrive and lingers considerably longer, which is why sour apple sweets feel like they go on and on. Tartaric acid, associated with grape, sits somewhere between the two. Confectioners choose between them for the shape of the sourness rather than for its intensity.
That is why the three sour flavours in this range do not feel alike even before you get to the fruit. Sour Pineapple is sharp and quick. Sour Apple is the one that stays with you. Sour Raspberry sits in the middle.
The sourness sits on the shell rather than in the bubblegum centre, so the sequence of eating one is sour first, then sweet. That contrast is the whole design of this range.
| Flavour | Sharpness | Where it sits |
|---|---|---|
| Sour Pineapple, this one | Sharp and quick | Tropical, acid-forward |
| Sour Apple | Sharp and lingering | The one that stays longest |
| Sour Raspberry | Moderately sharp | Darker fruit, middling acid |
| Passion Fruit | Tart rather than sour | Tropical with a floral edge |
| Cola Kiss | Tangy, spiced | The only non-fruit flavour |
| Blue Raspberry | Sweet, barely sharp | Candied rather than fruity |
| Peach Fuzz | Not sharp | Soft and floral |
| Cotton Candy | Not sharp at all | The sweetest in the range |
Three different answers to what colour this sweet is
Our Cola Kiss listing sets out a discrepancy across this range, where the small gift box and the large carton of the same flavour declare different colourings. Sour Pineapple is one of the flavours affected, and it has since picked up a third answer.
Our distributor declares E163 on the gift box of five and E101i with E160c on the carton of one hundred. Two independent UK retailers selling the same lollipops both declare riboflavin, which is E101i, and one of them lists nothing else alongside it.
Riboflavin is yellow. E163 is the anthocyanin group, which runs red through purple to blue. For a pineapple sweet, yellow is the colour that makes sense, and two shops independently arriving at it is worth something. That does not make it certain, because we cannot open a box and we are not going to pretend the retailers have inside knowledge our distributor lacks.
What it does mean is that the declaration on the small gift box is the odd one out on this particular flavour, and that anyone avoiding a specific additive should read the ingredient panel on the pack that arrives rather than any listing, including this one. We have asked our distributor to confirm and will publish the answer here.
| Source | Format | Declares | That colour is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our distributor | Gift box of five | E163 | Red through purple to blue |
| Our distributor | Carton of one hundred | E101i and E160c | Yellow and orange-red |
| A UK retailer | Gift box of five | E101i | Yellow |
| A second UK retailer | Single lolly | E101 | Yellow |
The legal position, and a figure you will see quoted that is not the test
The maker states THC free and made in the EU, and adds that the product is legal for consumption in the European Union. That is a statement about the EU, and the UK left it. Our own rules are what apply here.
The UK consumer test is a maximum of one milligram of controlled cannabinoids in the whole container, whatever that container's size. It is not a percentage, not a figure per serving, and not something that scales with how much you bought.
That distinction matters on this product more than on most, because at least one UK shop selling these lollipops asserts that its range complies by quoting a percentage limit for THC instead. That percentage is real, but it belongs to the rules governing hemp as a growing crop under a Home Office cultivation licence. It is a farming rule about a plant in a field. It has nothing to do with what may lawfully be sold to a person, and a product that satisfied it could still be many times over the actual consumer limit.
We are not naming the shop, because the error is common rather than unusual and correcting it is more useful than pointing at anyone. Anything edible also sits under the Food Standards Agency Novel Foods regime, which our gift box listing covers properly.
Everything on this site is 18+ only.
What you can and cannot buy in this range
A practical note, because the formats are genuinely confusing and we are part of the problem.
This flavour comes as a gift box of five and as a carton of one hundred. We list both. It is currently unavailable in the gift box while the carton of one hundred is not, which is worth checking before you settle on a format.
Four of the eight flavours, this one included, have their own listing here. The other four sit inside a single grouped gift box listing instead. Both are linked below and the reason for the split is an artefact of how our catalogue is built rather than anything meaningful.
One thing we do not stock in any form is a single lollipop. At least one UK shop sells these individually, which is the sensible way to try a flavour you are unsure about. Our smallest format is the box of five.
Who should choose another flavour
Anyone who does not like sour sweets. This is one of the three built to be sour and the citric acid in it is not decorative.
Anyone with sensitive teeth should think about it. Acid plus sugar held in the mouth for several minutes is harder on enamel than a sweet that dissolves quickly, and a lollipop is by design a slow thing. That is true of every sour lolly rather than a criticism of this one.
Anyone expecting the sensation of fresh pineapple. It is not here and it cannot be, for the reasons set out above. If the tingle is what you like about pineapple, no sweet will give it to you.
Anyone avoiding a particular colouring should wait until the discrepancy above is resolved, or buy the format whose declaration they can verify.
And anyone buying primarily for the CBD should look at our oils and capsules. Ten milligrams inside a boiled sugar lollipop is a modest amount attached to a lot of sugar, and there are formats that do that job more directly.
Frequently asked questions
- Why does fresh pineapple sting your mouth but a pineapple sweet does not?
- Because the stinging comes from bromelain, a group of protein-digesting enzymes in the fresh fruit, and heat destroys them. Boiling pineapple flavouring into sugar leaves nothing enzymatically active, so a lollipop cannot produce that sensation however sour it tastes.
- What is bromelain and is any of it in this lollipop?
- It is the set of proteolytic enzymes that makes pineapple unusual among fruits, concentrated in the stem and flesh. There is none in this product. It is also why fresh pineapple stops a gelatine jelly setting while tinned pineapple does not.
- What makes a sweet taste sour?
- An added acidulant, and which one is chosen changes the shape of the sourness rather than just its strength. These lollipops declare citric acid, which is bright and fast-fading. Malic acid, used in green apple sweets, arrives more slowly and lingers much longer.
- Which colouring is actually in the Sour Pineapple lollipops?
- There are three answers in circulation. Our distributor declares E163 on the gift box and E101i with E160c on the carton of one hundred, while two independent UK retailers both declare riboflavin, which is yellow and the colour a pineapple sweet would sensibly be. Read the pack you receive.
- Does the UK cannabinoid limit apply to each lolly or to the whole box?
- To the container. The test is a maximum of one milligram of controlled cannabinoids in the whole thing, so a box of five is assessed as a box rather than lolly by lolly. That is also why buying a larger carton does not give you a larger allowance.
- Can I buy a single Bubbly Billy Buds lollipop?
- Not from us. Our smallest format for this flavour is the gift box of five and the alternative is the carton of one hundred. At least one UK shop does sell them individually, which is a reasonable way to test a flavour before committing to a box.
- Are sour sweets harder on tooth enamel than ordinary ones?
- Acid and sugar together are more demanding on enamel than sugar alone, and a lollipop keeps both in contact with the teeth for several minutes rather than seconds. That applies to any sour lollipop rather than to this one in particular, and it is worth factoring in if your teeth are sensitive.
- Does Sour Pineapple taste like real pineapple?
- It tastes like pineapple confectionery, which is a sweeter and rounder thing than the fruit. Real pineapple carries a slightly savoury, almost fermented edge and the enzyme sensation described above, and neither survives into a boiled sweet.
Updated July 2026
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