Multitrance Pyramid CBD Tea Bags 150mg (20 Pack)

Where the 150mg goes, bag by bag

The numbers on this box all reconcile, which is rarer than it should be, and following them through tells you more about the product than any description would.

Each bag holds one and a half grams of tea. The ingredient list declares THC-free CBD oil at nought point five per cent. Nought point five per cent of one and a half grams is seven and a half milligrams, which is exactly the per-bag figure printed on the front. Twenty of those makes one hundred and fifty. Nothing is rounded and nothing is inflated.

One honest caveat while we are being precise about it. That nought point five per cent is a quantitative ingredient declaration, so it states how much of the named ingredient is in the product by weight. The named ingredient is CBD oil. Whether the seven and a half milligrams is seven and a half milligrams of cannabidiol, or seven and a half milligrams of an oil that contains cannabidiol at some concentration the label does not give, is genuinely not stated. We have asked the distributor and will publish the answer when we hold it rather than guess at it now.

Either way, this is a low-strength product by design. Two bags a day sits at fifteen milligrams on the label's own arithmetic, and there is a section further down on why that number matters in the UK.

Four base teas, and only two of them are caffeine free

This is the detail most likely to matter to you in practice, and it is the one nobody separates out. Camomile and Rooibos print CAFFEINE FREE on the front of the box. Black and Green print 100% NATURAL in the same position instead, because they are made from the tea plant and carry its caffeine. A summary we found while researching this page described the whole range as caffeine-free. Two of the four are not.

On flavour, the CBD oil is a small enough proportion that the base tea does most of the talking. Black is a full, brisk, slightly malty cup that takes milk. Green is grassier and turns bitter if you brew it with fully boiling water, so let the kettle stand a minute. Camomile is soft, floral and faintly honeyed. Rooibos is the sweetest and roundest of the four, reddish in the cup, with a woody edge.

The pyramid bag is not marketing. A pyramid gives the leaf room to open properly instead of pressing it flat against paper, which matters more for whole-leaf green and for camomile flowers than it does for a fine black blend.

Options that are out of stock stay visible in the picker rather than being hidden, so you can see what is due back.

Cannabidiol does not dissolve in water, and almost nobody selling CBD tea says so

Out of every UK page we read on CBD tea, exactly one mentioned this, in a single passing line, and none turned it into advice. So here it is properly.

Cannabidiol is lipophilic. It dissolves in fats and oils and it does not dissolve in water. Drop an oil-carried compound into a mug of hot water and it does not disperse through the cup, it beads and clings, and a fair amount of it stays on the bag and on the inside of the mug when you throw one away and rinse the other.

The practical fix is a fat in the cup. Black tea already suggests it: a splash of whole milk, or oat milk, which is high enough in fat to do the job and is what most people are pouring anyway. For camomile, green and rooibos, where milk would be odd, a small spoon of coconut oil or a splash of single cream works, and honey does not, because sugar is not a fat.

Brew it like the base tea rather than like a supplement. Black and rooibos take water off the boil and three to five minutes. Green wants water left to stand for a minute first and two to three minutes in the cup. Camomile is forgiving and improves with a longer steep and a lid or saucer over the mug.

We are not going to put a figure on how much of the seven and a half milligrams reaches you, because we have not seen one we would stand behind. What we can say is that the number on the box is what went into the bag, not what ends up in you, and any CBD tea sold by anyone has that same gap.

The only daily figure on this box is printed in French

Read the label in English and you get an ingredient list, a storage instruction and a THC statement. Read the French block on the same label and there is an extra sentence the other nine languages do not carry: that the maximum recommended amount of CBD per day is fifty milligrams.

That is a French-market statement and it is not the position here. The Food Standards Agency advises that healthy adults keep their CBD from food supplements to ten milligrams a day, revised down from a much higher earlier figure and announced in October 2023. It is precautionary advice rather than a legal cap, and the FSA has said it will not force the change on products already on its public list, but it is the number a UK buyer should be working from.

The gap is not academic. Fifty milligrams is five times the FSA figure, and it is the only daily number printed anywhere on this box. If you read French, you will read it. Nobody selling this tea anywhere has pointed it out.

On this product the arithmetic is at least gentle. One bag is seven and a half milligrams on the label's own numbers, so a single cup sits under the FSA figure and two cups sit just over it. If you are also taking an oil or a gummy, count those first. Total daily intake is the thing to watch, not any single item.

Multitrance make four teas that look almost identical, and one has no CBD in it

This trips people up constantly, and at least one shop we found while researching has fallen into it themselves.

The house runs its teas under more than one of its own brand names, at more than one strength, and one line is flavoured rather than infused. The manufacturer's product codes are the only reliable way through, and they are printed on every box. This tea is the canna24 series.

The one to watch is the Cannabis Silver Haze black tea. Its ingredient list reads black tea with cannabis extracts, it publishes no cannabinoid figure at all, and we found it being sold on a site called CBD Tea Shop under a title containing the word High, with copy describing how relaxing it is. It is a flavoured tea. We stock it, and our listing for it says so.

Where UK law sits, and the Novel Foods question nobody in this market answers

Every listing for this tea repeats the manufacturer's line that it is legal for consumption in the European Union. That is true and it is not the test that applies to you.

The UK consumer test is one milligram or less of controlled cannabinoids per container. Per container, not per serving, and not a percentage of anything. You will see a percentage quoted around this market as though it were the rule for finished products, including on the deepest UK CBD tea page we read. It is not. That figure belongs to the Home Office licence for growing industrial hemp and describes the crop in the field. This tea is declared THC free in all ten languages on its label, so the question does not bite here, but the test is worth knowing because plenty of products it does bite on are sold with the wrong one printed underneath.

Novel Foods is the part nobody in this ranking set touches. Ingestible cannabidiol in the UK sits inside the Food Standards Agency's Novel Foods regime, and products that have been through it appear on the FSA's public list. We have not verified an entry for this tea and we are not going to imply one. What we will say is that the regime exists, that it applies to a product like this, and that we are asking the distributor for the position. That is more than any page currently selling it has said in either direction.

One more thing worth stating plainly. The manufacturer's own copy describes how this tea is supposed to make you feel, at some length. We have not repeated a word of it. A UK retailer may not make those statements about a food supplement, and the deepest competing page we read builds two of its six frequently asked questions around exactly that kind of claim.

Who should not buy this tea

Anyone wanting a meaningful amount of cannabidiol. Seven and a half milligrams a bag is a small figure before you account for anything staying behind on the bag, and if you are looking for a stated intake you will do better with an oil, where the dropper puts the number under your control.

Anyone avoiding caffeine who buys on the picture. Black and Green are ordinary caffeinated teas with something added. Camomile and Rooibos are the ones that print CAFFEINE FREE.

Anyone who drinks their tea black and expects the label figure to arrive intact. Without a fat in the cup, a fair proportion of an oil-carried compound stays where you left it.

And anyone who dislikes being told what a product does not do. This is a pleasant, well-made, low-strength infusion from a house that has been at it since 1995. It is a nice cup of tea with something in it, and we would rather sell it as that than as anything grander.