Multitrance Cannabis Mints — Box of 48

No cannabinoid content is published for these, by anyone

We went to the manufacturer's own page for this line and checked. There is no CBD figure on it. There is no cannabinoid figure of any kind, no milligram content, and no percentage. The category itself is labelled hemp mints rather than CBD mints.

What the manufacturer's prose does describe is flavour. Dextrose is presented as a carrier for flavour, peppermint for its cooling character, and the other option for its lime and lemon notes. That is confectionery language from beginning to end.

There is a further complication. The manufacturer publishes its ingredient lists as images rather than as text, so they cannot be read, quoted or verified from the page by a search engine, by us, or by anyone using a screen reader. That is an unusual choice for a food product and it means any ingredient list circulating for these mints cannot be traced back to a readable source.

The best list available in the wider trade gives dextrose, glucose syrup, citric acid, magnesium stearate, aroma and hemp seed oil. If that is accurate, and we cannot confirm it against the manufacturer, then the only hemp derived component is hemp seed oil.

Hemp seed oil is not CBD

This is the correction that matters, and it applies to a great many products beyond these mints.

Cannabinoids, including CBD, are produced in the flowers and leaves of the hemp plant, in the resin. They are not produced in the seed. Hemp seed oil is pressed from the seeds, in the same way sunflower oil is pressed from sunflower seeds, and it carries essentially no cannabinoids at all.

It is a perfectly good ingredient. It is nutritious, it has a pleasant nutty character, and it is used widely in food and skincare. What it is not is a source of CBD, and a product containing hemp seed oil is not thereby a CBD product.

The confusion is entirely understandable, because the words look similar and both come from the same plant. But if a label lists hemp seed oil and gives no cannabinoid figure, the reasonable conclusion is that there is no meaningful cannabinoid content, and that is where these mints appear to sit on the evidence available.

Two flavours, and what they taste of

Peppermint and Lemon Lime, both currently available. They are dextrose mints, which means a hard pressed tablet that dissolves rather than a boiled sweet or a gummy.

Peppermint is the straightforward one and behaves like any strong mint: cooling, clean, and gone fairly quickly. Lemon Lime is sharper, with citric acid doing the sour work, and is the more interesting of the two if mints usually bore you.

The cannabis element is the theme rather than the taste. Neither of these is trying to taste of hemp, and on the available evidence there is nothing in them that would.

Why the pack figure on this listing is not something we will quote

The product name our catalogue generates for these mints includes a quantity. We are not going to repeat it in this copy, and it is worth explaining why rather than quietly leaving it out.

Product names and pack descriptions in our catalogue are generated automatically from a pack quantity field, and that field has not been confirmed with our distributor for this line. A bracketed number on a wholesale listing can mean two completely different things: the number of sweets inside one unit, or the number of units in a trade case.

In this instance there is a specific reason for doubt. The manufacturer's own website sells these mints as individual rolls rather than in a box, and mentions no case anywhere. That points towards the figure being a trade case quantity rather than the contents of what arrives.

So the honest position is that we know the flavours and we do not yet know the pack configuration. When the distributor account confirms it, this page will say so.

Cannabis mints are not the same thing as THC mints

Search for cannabis mints and much of what comes back is American, and much of that contains THC. Some of it is explicitly sold as Delta-9 THC edibles at a stated milligram strength.

Those are a completely different product from these. THC is a controlled substance in the UK, and a CBD or hemp product sold here must contain no more than 1mg of controlled cannabinoids, counting THC, THCV and CBN, in the whole container. That limit comes from the exempt product provisions under the Misuse of Drugs Act and it applies per container regardless of size.

Multitrance states its range is THC free. These mints are cannabis themed confectionery sold in Europe, not a cannabis edible in the American sense, and nothing about them is intended to produce an effect.

It is worth being alert to the difference, because the search results do not separate them and the packaging conventions look similar.

Where these sit on our sweets shelf

Our sweets aisle mixes two quite different things and this is a good moment to be clear about it, because we would rather you bought the right one.

Some products on that shelf carry a published CBD figure. The Orange County gummy range publishes milligrams per sweet, so you know exactly what you are getting. Others, these mints among them, are cannabis or hemp themed confectionery with no cannabinoid figure attached.

Both are legitimate products. A mint that tastes of peppermint and carries a cannabis theme is a perfectly reasonable thing to sell and to buy. It is simply not a CBD product, and it should not be bought as a substitute for one.

If a stated CBD content is what you are after, the gummies and the oils are where to look. If you want the sweet, this is the sweet.

Who should skip these

If you want CBD, skip these. No cannabinoid figure is published for them, the manufacturer calls them hemp mints rather than CBD mints, and hemp seed oil is not a source of CBD. Our gummies and oils publish real figures.

If you need to know exactly what you are eating, the manufacturer publishing its ingredients only as images makes that harder than it should be, and we would rather say so than pretend the list circulating in the trade is authoritative.

If you want to know how many arrive, we cannot tell you yet, for the reasons set out above.

And if you were looking for the American style of cannabis mint, that product contains THC, it is controlled here, and this is not it.