Multitrance CBD Hazelnut Cream Cookies 10mg

The allergen is in the product name

UK food law names fourteen allergens that businesses must tell customers about. The list runs celery, cereals containing gluten, crustaceans, eggs, fish, lupin, milk, molluscs, mustard, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sulphur dioxide and sulphites, and tree nuts.

Tree nuts are enumerated in the legislation itself: almond, hazelnut, walnut, cashew, pecan, Brazil nut, pistachio and macadamia. Hazelnut is on that list by name.

Two things follow, and both matter for a page like this one. Allergenic ingredients have to be emphasised every time they appear in an ingredient list, using bold, a contrasting colour or underlining, so that they cannot be skimmed past. And the Food Standards Agency is explicit that allergen information must be available at the point of choice for the consumer.

An online product listing is the point of choice. So rather than bury it in a specification block or leave it to the packet, we are saying it in the first section: this product contains hazelnut. If you or anyone you are buying for has a tree nut allergy, this cookie is not for you, and neither is a case of twenty-four of them sitting in a cupboard.

The chocolate version of the same cookie is a different product with a different filling, and our page for it handles the range's allergen picture more broadly. But no general answer substitutes for a nut being named on the front of the packet.

Where hazelnut and chocolate came from in the first place

Hazelnut cream is such a fixed idea now that it reads as an obvious flavour. It is not obvious at all. It exists because of a trade blockade.

In 1806 Napoleon's Continental System shut British goods out of European ports, and cocoa became scarce and hard to obtain across the continent. Chocolate makers in Turin had a choice between making less chocolate or making it differently.

They chose differently. The Langhe hills south of Turin grow hazelnuts in quantity, so Turin's chocolatiers stretched what cocoa they could get by grinding it together with local hazelnuts. The result was gianduja.

It took a long time to get right. Caffarel, a Turin firm, spent something like forty years working out how best to roast and grind the two together, and Michele Prochet is generally credited with perfecting the mixture around the middle of the nineteenth century. He is also credited with the gianduiotto, the foil-wrapped ingot shaped like an upside-down boat that Turin still sells by the tonne.

The name came from Gianduja, a carnival character from the region. So the flavour in this cookie is named after a piece of Piedmontese street theatre, and exists because of a Napoleonic embargo. That is a better story than most confectionery can manage, and no listing selling a hazelnut product has ever told it.

How this differs from the chocolate cream twin

We stock the same cookie in two fillings, and they are close enough that the differences are worth setting out plainly.

Both are 17g biscuits made on a hemp flour base, both carry a stated 10mg of CBD, both are individually wrapped and both come as a case of twenty-four. The filling is the variable.

The practical difference is the allergen. The hazelnut version brings a declarable tree nut into the recipe that the chocolate version does not, which changes who can eat it and where you can safely leave a box.

On the CBD side there is nothing to choose between them, and our page for the chocolate version goes into the ten milligram figure and how it sits against the stronger cookies on our shelf. Rather than repeat that here, it is linked below.

The biscuit shelf, sorted by what is in it

Most cookie comparisons sort by strength. On a shelf where several products carry allergens and several carry no cannabinoid at all, sorting by contents is more useful.

Two things are worth noticing. Only some of these have a stated CBD figure, and the ones named after cannabis mostly do not. And allergens vary genuinely across the shelf rather than being uniform, which is exactly why a general answer is not good enough.

One caution about the table below. It reflects what manufacturers and distributors publish, and publication in this category is patchy. If an allergen decides your purchase, ask us and we will get the panel from the packet before you order rather than working from a listing.

What a 17g cookie actually is

Seventeen grams is a small biscuit, roughly the size of a single sandwich cream cookie rather than anything you would call a cookie in a coffee shop.

That is deliberate. It is built as a single-serve item, individually wrapped, designed for a counter display rather than a biscuit tin, and the 10mg figure is calibrated to one biscuit rather than to a portion of several.

The base is a hemp flour recipe, which is the through-line across this part of the Multitrance range and gives the biscuit a slightly nuttier, denser character than a plain wheat cookie would have. With a hazelnut filling on top of that, the nut note is doing double duty here in a way it does not in the chocolate version.

A case of twenty-four is a trade quantity. It suits a counter, an office or someone who knows they like it. It is not a sensible way to find out whether you do, and with a nut allergen involved it is also twenty-four items you need to be confident about leaving around.

Who should not buy this

Anyone with a tree nut allergy, and anyone buying for a household or a workplace where a nut allergy exists. This is not a may-contain caution. Hazelnut is in the name and in the filling.

If you want the same cookie without the nut, buy the chocolate cream version, which is the same biscuit and the same stated CBD figure with a different filling.

If you want a meaningful CBD figure, ten milligrams in a small biscuit is a modest amount and our shelf has cookies carrying considerably more. The chocolate cream page compares them.

And if you are buying to try it, a case of twenty-four is the wrong quantity, particularly for a product carrying an allergen you may want to check with someone before introducing to a shared space.