Multitrance Cannabis Chocolate Cookie Bites

Three sources, three pack sizes, and none of them agree

This is unusual enough that it goes at the top rather than buried in a specification table.

Multitrance's own product page for the chocolate cookie bites gives the pack as 135 grams. Our listing's name says 22 grams, and adds twenty-four pack. Our own stock record, separately, says one unit. Those are three different answers, and the gap between a 135 gram pack and a 22 gram one is a factor of six.

There is a plausible explanation, though we are not going to present a guess as a fact. The maker sells cookie bites in more than one format, including a jar, so it is entirely possible that a small 22 gram pack and a larger 135 gram bag both exist and that the descriptions have become crossed somewhere between the manufacturer, our distributor and our catalogue. What is certain is that nothing published anywhere lets a buyer work out which one this listing refers to.

So here is our position. We are not going to state a pack size on this page, because we do not reliably know it. If the format matters to you, and on a biscuit it reasonably might, contact us before ordering and we will confirm exactly what our distributor supplies against this code before anything ships.

We would rather say that plainly than print a number from the product title and hope. This is the fourth time in this part of our range that a distributor product name has turned out to be unreliable, and it is the one with the most practical consequence, because it changes what physically arrives.

What is actually in the chocolate version

The ingredient list, which the manufacturer does publish in full, is more informative than the name.

Wheat flour, sugar-free chocolate made with maltitol as the sweetener plus cocoa mass, soy lecithin, fat-reduced cocoa powder and natural vanilla flavour. Then palm fat, maltitol again, hemp flour at five per cent, pasteurised egg mass, more soy lecithin, sodium and ammonium carbonates as raising agents, flavour, salt, and hemp seed oil.

Several things in that are worth pulling out, because they change who this biscuit suits.

The chocolate is itself sugar-free, sweetened with maltitol, and there is more maltitol in the biscuit dough. So maltitol appears twice and is doing most of the sweetening across the whole product. It is a polyol, the same family of sweeteners used in sugar-free chewing gum.

Soy also appears twice, as lecithin in the chocolate and again as lecithin in the dough. Anyone avoiding soy should note it is not a trace here, it is in the recipe in two places.

And there are two separate hemp ingredients: hemp flour at five per cent, and hemp seed oil. Both come from the seed rather than the flower, which is why no cannabinoid figure appears anywhere on this product. If a stated milligram figure is what you want, the same maker's CBD-named cookies carry one and these do not.

Egg is in the recipe, not in the may-contain line

This distinction is easy to miss and it matters more than most things on the label.

An ingredient list and an allergen advisory are two different statements. An ingredient is in the product deliberately. A may-contain advisory says the ingredient is not in the recipe but the production line handles it, so traces are possible.

On these biscuits, pasteurised egg mass is an ingredient. So is wheat flour, and so is soy lecithin. Milk, nuts, peanuts and sesame seeds appear in the may-contain line instead.

The practical consequence is straightforward: these are not vegan, and no amount of reading the advisory line will tell you that, because egg is not on it. They are suitable for vegetarians, since egg is the only animal-derived ingredient and it is pasteurised egg rather than anything else.

Nobody selling these states the vegan position either way. We are stating it because a chocolate biscuit is exactly the sort of product people assume they can check quickly, and here the answer is in the ingredient list rather than in any of the labels or badges you would normally look for.

What no added sugar actually means

The maker's wording is precise and worth reading precisely: no added sugar, but contains naturally occurring sugars.

That is not the same as sugar-free. No added sugar means no sugar has been put in as an ingredient. Naturally occurring sugars are the ones already present in the other ingredients, and in a wheat-flour biscuit with cocoa in it there will be some.

The sweetness you actually taste comes mostly from maltitol, which is a sugar alcohol used across the sugar-free confectionery trade. It is roughly as sweet as sugar, which is why it can replace it directly, and it appears here twice, once in the chocolate and once in the biscuit.

For anyone counting, none of this is a nutritional claim of ours. It is what the label says and what those phrases mean under food labelling conventions. The manufacturer publishes no nutritional table for this product that we can find, so a per-biscuit sugar figure is not available, which is another gap on a product sold partly on the no-added-sugar claim.

How it sits against the rest of the biscuit shelf

The cookie shelf in this part of our range divides fairly cleanly, and the divide is about whether a number is printed on the pack.

These cookie bites, the cranberry version of the same thing and the Space Cookies carry no cannabinoid figure. The CBD-named cream cookies from the same maker state 10mg a piece, and Euphoria's CBD cookies state 120mg a pot. That is the whole difference, and it is the difference between buying a flavoured biscuit and buying something with a measured content.

Within the no-figure group, the choice is about format and recipe rather than strength. These are small chocolate bites made with hemp flour. The cranberry version is the same biscuit with a different inclusion. The Space Cookie is a larger single cookie in several flavours.

Who should not buy this

If you need to know the pack size before you order, do not order yet. Ask us and we will confirm it against our distributor first, because as things stand the name, our data and the manufacturer's page give three different answers.

If you are vegan, these are not suitable. Pasteurised egg is an ingredient rather than a trace.

If you avoid soy, it is in the recipe twice as lecithin, not merely as a possible trace.

If you want CBD, no cannabinoid figure is published for these. The hemp in them is flour and seed oil, both seed-derived. The CBD-named cookies in the table above carry a stated figure.

If you have a nut, peanut, sesame or milk allergy, note that all four appear in the may-contain advisory. That is a production line statement rather than a recipe one, but it is the relevant line for a serious allergy.

18+ only, as with everything we sell.