HaZe Cannabis Milk Chocolate with Hemp Seeds, 80g

No CBD in it, and the brand's own range shows you how to tell

Multitrance has made cannabis-branded food in Amsterdam since 1995 and it is perfectly clear about which of its bars contain a cannabinoid. It puts the number in the product name.

Look at the chocolate range and the rule is obvious. One bar is called Multitrance 100mg CBD Dark Chocolate. The other five, including this one, carry no figure at all, because what they carry is shelled hemp seed at around ten per cent of the bar. On an 80g bar that is roughly eight grams of seed.

Hemp seed is a food ingredient. It is the same thing you would sprinkle on porridge, and it contains no meaningful cannabidiol. So a hemp seed chocolate and a CBD chocolate are two genuinely different products that happen to share a plant and a leaf motif.

The panel attached to this listing is the clearest evidence. It is a HaZe Original Amsterdam wrapper reading Cannabis Chocolate, then Milk Cannabis Chocolate, produced by Multitrance Amsterdam. Nowhere on it is there a cannabinoid figure, a spectrum, or the letters CBD.

One correction we owe you about our own site. This bar currently sits in our CBD edibles aisle, and the short summary our catalogue generates for it calls it a CBD-isolate CBD edible. Both are wrong, we are fixing them, and we would rather tell you that here than let a generated sentence mislead you. If you want CBD in something you eat, the comparison further down points at products that state a real figure.

Which bar this actually is, and why three names are in circulation

Worth pinning down, because our own listing title is not reliable and neither is the market's.

Our distributor titles this as a HaZe bar, and on that point it is right: the ingredient panel it attaches, product code canna43, carries the HaZe Original Amsterdam logo. Where it goes wrong is the hazelnut. That same canna43 panel declares milk chocolate with hemp seeds at ten per cent and lists no hazelnut ingredient whatsoever.

Two European retailers sell what appears to be the same bar under a Bob Marley licence, titled as Bob Marley Cannabis and Hazelnuts Milk Chocolate at the same 80g weight. Licensed relabels of one bar are common in this market, and the specification matches, but both of those listings are now dead or blocked so we cannot confirm it from the live web.

It gets stranger. The distributor's other milk listing, titled plainly as Multitrance Cannabis Milk Chocolate with no hazelnut in its name, carries panel canna45, and canna45 is the one that does declare roasted hazelnut kernels. So the two listings appear to have swapped panels: the one promising hazelnuts has the panel without them, and the one promising none has the panel with them.

Where that leaves you: this is an 80g Amsterdam hemp seed milk chocolate, and whether the bar in the wrapper contains hazelnut pieces is genuinely unresolved between the title and the panel. We are not going to guess, because guessing about a nut is the one place guessing is unacceptable. We have asked our distributor to confirm which panel belongs to which listing. Until they answer, anyone with a nut allergy should contact us before ordering rather than rely on either the title or the panel.

What is in it, and the three allergens worth knowing about

The canna43 panel on this listing reads: sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, shelled hemp seeds at ten per cent, emulsifiers in the form of soya lecithin and polyglycerol polyricinoleate, and Bourbon Madagascar vanilla extract. Minimum thirty one per cent cocoa solids, 80g, made in the EU. It also states, in bold, that it may contain traces of other nuts.

So two allergens are declared outright, milk and soya, both printed in bold on the panel as the label requires. Nuts appear only as a may-contain-traces warning rather than as an ingredient, which directly contradicts the hazelnut in this listing's title. Neither the milk nor the soya is repeated by any retailer selling this bar.

For a confectionery product that is a genuine gap rather than a technicality, and it is the third time in this range of Amsterdam sweets that we have found the allergen information published in exactly one place. If any of those three matters to you, ask us and we will get the current panel from the distributor rather than have you rely on a list we found on a brand page.

One thing the ingredient list does not include is any cannabis extract, hemp oil or CBD. The hemp in this bar is seed, and it is there for texture and a nutty note.

What it tastes like

A standard sweet Amsterdam milk chocolate, softer and sweeter than a British bar of the same type, with shelled hemp seeds worked through it. The seeds give a light crunch and a faint nuttiness closer to sunflower seed than to anything herbal. If the bar you receive does turn out to carry hazelnut pieces, they would be the louder of the two textures.

It does not taste of cannabis and it is not trying to. There is no herbal or grassy note in it, which surprises some people given the packaging. If you have had a hemp seed flapjack, that is the direction.

It is a novelty bar with real chocolate underneath rather than a joke product, and the artwork is doing most of the cannabis work. That is worth saying plainly, because the gap between what the wrapper suggests and what the bar delivers is the main thing people get wrong about it.

If you actually wanted CBD, here is the honest comparison

Plenty of people will land here wanting a CBD chocolate and find a hemp seed one. So here is what we stock that carries a stated figure, alongside the cannabis-branded bars that do not.

Note what the CBD products have in common: a milligram number and, on the better ones, a per-portion figure. A properly labelled CBD chocolate tells you both. The UK bars we compared against publish 20mg in a 10g bar and 150mg across 24 squares, which is about 6mg a square. This bar has nothing equivalent to publish.

One correction while you are comparing, because both of the highest-authority UK CBD chocolate pages get it wrong. Both quote the Food Standards Agency's maximum daily CBD figure as 70mg. That figure was revised down to 10mg a day from CBD food supplements in October 2023, so it is seven times looser than current advice. If you are working out how much of a CBD chocolate to eat, 10mg is the number the FSA now uses. Our guide to CBD amounts explains where it came from.

The pack also carries a line about being legal for consumption in the European Union. The United Kingdom is not in the European Union, so that statement does not settle anything here. On a hemp seed food it is a low-stakes point, but it is worth knowing that the sentence is not about Britain.

Who this is not for

Anyone who wants CBD. There is none in it, this is the single most likely mistaken assumption about the product, and it is the reason the correction is at the top of the page rather than the bottom.

Anyone with a milk or soya allergy, both declared in bold on the panel. And anyone with a nut allergy, for a different and more serious reason: this listing's title says hazelnuts and its own ingredient panel does not, so the nut content is unresolved. Do not order it on the strength of either. Contact us and we will get written confirmation from the distributor first.

Anyone expecting it to taste of cannabis. It does not. The seeds read as nutty rather than herbal, and the artwork is carrying the theme.

Anyone buying it as a gift for someone who will read the wrapper and expect an effect. The packaging is emphatic and the contents are not, which is a fine joke between people who know and an awkward moment between people who do not.

And anyone who needs the label confirmed before ordering. We are still establishing with our distributor whether this ships as a Multitrance, a HaZe or a Bob Marley wrapper. The bar looks to be the same either way, but if the label is the point of the purchase, ask us first.