Orange County CBD Gummies 400mg

The gentlest tub in the range, shape by shape

Every tub holds 400mg in total, and the shape you pick decides whether that is split into 20, 25 or 30 sweets.

One retailer publishes the full per-shape breakdown for this size, and it is the best data available anywhere in this range. Every other size leaves at least one shape unpublished.

Cubes, Bears and Bottles carry 16mg each and come twenty five to a tub. Strawberries, Cherries and Worms carry 20mg each and come twenty to a tub. Fizzy Peach Rings carry 13.3mg and come thirty to a tub, which makes them the gentlest single sweet Orange County produces at any size.

We carry five of the shapes at this size. The table further down shows which are in stock today, and choosing a row there switches the basket to that shape.

On character, the shapes behave the same way they do at every size. Peach Rings are the sharpest and fizziest, Cherries and Strawberries the most intensely fruity, Bears and Cubes the mildest mixed fruit. At 13mg to 20mg the hemp note underneath is faint across all of them.

400mg

CBD in every tub, whatever the shape

13.3mg

in a Peach Ring, the lowest in the range

20 to 30

sweets per tub, by shape

A Novel Food application number is not an authorisation

RP427 is a reference for a submitted dossier. It does not mean the product has been authorised.

One retailer selling this tub prints a single line as a heading: Novel Food application number RP427. No explanation follows it. It is the only mention of Novel Foods we have found anywhere across the Orange County gummy range, and it is worth unpacking properly, because a number like that is easy to read as a seal of approval.

Ingestible CBD in the UK sits under the Novel Foods regime, administered by the Food Standards Agency. Gummies, oils, capsules and drinks are all covered. Vapes and topicals are not, which is a large part of why the whole subject gets muddled.

An application number means a dossier has been submitted and is somewhere in the process. It is not the same as a product appearing as validated on the FSA public list, and products can hold an application reference for a long time while assessment continues. Our guide to CBD and the Novel Foods rules covers the whole regime.

Claims you will see on this product, and why we make none

This is an uncomfortable section to write about a product we sell, and it is the reason to write it.

A listing for this exact tub on a major online marketplace carries, in its title, claims about how the sweets will make you feel, naming stress, mood and sleep among them. Those are health and medical claims, and they are not permitted on a CBD food supplement sold in the UK. The rules come from the MHRA and the advertising codes, and they exist because CBD is not a licensed medicine and no seller is in a position to promise an outcome.

We are not going to repeat those claims, contradict them, or supply our own version of them. What CBD does or does not do is not something a shop should be telling you, and any retailer confident enough to put it in a product title is telling you more about their compliance than about the sweets.

What we will tell you is what is in the tub, how much is in each sweet, what the law requires and where the regulatory position is unsettled. That is the entire remit, and it is deliberately less exciting than the alternative.

Where the 400mg sits across the whole range

The number on the tub does not tell you how strong a sweet is. Three of the four sizes sit in the same band, and one does not.

Four sizes into this range, a clear pattern has emerged, and no page selling any of them describes it. The tub number does not tell you how strong a sweet is. The format does, with one exception.

Almost everything Orange County makes sits between roughly 13mg and 25mg per sweet. The 400mg small tub, the 200mg grab bag and the enormous 1,600mg large tub are all in that band. The 1,200mg small tub is the single outlier at 40mg to 60mg, carrying two to four times more in each individual sweet than anything else in the range.

So if you want a gentle sweet, three of the four sizes will do it and the choice is really about how many you want in the house. If you want a strong sweet, there is exactly one tub that delivers it, and it is not the biggest one.

What 13 to 20mg looks like against FSA advice

One sweet from this tub is already above the Food Standards Agency's 10mg a day advisory figure, whichever shape you choose.

The Food Standards Agency advises healthy adults keep CBD from food supplements to no more than 10mg a day. It is precautionary advice rather than a legal limit, and it was revised down from an earlier 70mg figure, announced in October 2023.

A 13.3mg Peach Ring sits a little above that. A 20mg cherry is twice it. Those are the closest figures to the advisory number anywhere in this range, which is the strongest practical argument for the 400mg tub if the guidance matters to you.

Neither page we could read for this size mentions the FSA at all. That has now been true of every ingestible ranking set examined in this range without a single exception, which is a remarkable thing for a category regulated as food. Our guide on how much CBD to take sets out where the advisory figure comes from.

The THC rule, and a page that publishes two different figures

The legal test is short, and it is in the box below. The longer version is in our guide to whether CBD is legal in the UK.

One retailer selling this tub manages to publish two different percentage figures on a single page: a THC level of 0.2 per cent in the product body, and in its own footer a claim that its products are THC free and contain less than 0.01 per cent. Both cannot be the operative figure and neither is the legal test. The larger of the two is a cultivation rule, capping THC in the standing hemp crop grown under a Home Office licence, and it has nothing to do with what may be sold to a consumer.

Broad spectrum extract has the THC removed during processing, which is the mechanism that keeps an edible inside the real limit. The ingredients here are pectin set rather than gelatine set, which makes the sweets vegan, and they are published as gluten free. Everything on this site is 18+ only.

Who should skip the 400mg tub

This tub suits a narrow brief well and several others badly. If one of the lines on the right describes you, a different size in the same range is the better buy.

Against other brands at a similar strength

Orange County is one of several brands on our gummy shelf. The table reads from what is in stock, so it changes as the shelf does. Remember that the strength shown is the total in the container: a 900mg pouch of thirty sweets and a 400mg tub of twenty are closer per sweet than the headline numbers suggest.

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