Tyson 2.0 Cannabis Chocolate Chip Cookie, 50g

Read the panel and the cookie changes shape

One UK retailer publishes the ingredient list. Nobody else does, and our own distributor's entire description of this product is two boilerplate lines it also puts on the chocolate bars.

The list, in label order, runs: gluten-free oat flakes, coconut syrup, cashew, desiccated coconut, dark chocolate drops, cacao butter, coconut sugar, cacao butter, shea butter, emulsifier, sunflower lecithin, hemp seeds at 8 per cent, coconut oil, coconut chips, bourbon vanilla and salt.

UK and EU labelling requires descending order by weight, so that sequence is evidence rather than decoration. The base is oats and coconut syrup, not wheat flour and butter. Cashew outweighs the chocolate. Coconut appears as syrup, desiccated, sugar, oil and chips, five entries across the list, which is more mentions than any other ingredient gets.

There is no hemp extract on it and no CBD figure. The only hemp component is the seed, quantified at 8 per cent, which is slightly less than the 10 per cent both Tyson chocolate bars carry.

None of this makes it a worse cookie. An oat, cashew and coconut cookie sweetened with coconut syrup is a more interesting thing than a standard chocolate chip biscuit. It is simply not what the name on the front says it is.

Cashew is an ingredient here, not a trace

This is the part that matters most and the part nobody states. Cashew is third on the list, which puts it above the chocolate drops and above every fat in the recipe. It is a deliberate ingredient in quantity, not a shared-equipment warning.

The retailer's allergen line reads that the product contains various nuts and seeds, and adds that it may contain traces of fruit pits, nut shells, sesame seeds, peanuts and other nuts. So there is both a declared nut and a trace warning covering several more.

Neither our own listing nor our distributor's declares any of that. A customer with a nut allergy reading our current product description has nothing whatsoever to warn them, and this is the third Tyson food in a row where the same gap has turned up. We have raised it, and we are stating it here in the meantime because a page that knows this and stays quiet is worse than a page that never looked.

If you are avoiding nuts, this cookie is not for you and no amount of reformulating the sentence changes that. If you are avoiding a specific nut, contact us and we will get the pack photograph from the distributor before you order.

Two defects in the only published label

The list has problems of its own, and pointing them out is the reason we want the pack rather than a transcription of it.

The first ingredient is printed as gluten-free oak flakes. Oak is a tree. This is plainly oat, and gluten-free oats are a real certified ingredient, which is also the only reading that makes the gluten-free claim on the same page hold together. It is a small thing except that it is the ingredient the cookie is mostly made of, and its name is wrong on the only list anyone has published.

The second is that cacao butter appears twice, at positions six and eight, with coconut sugar sitting between them. In a list ordered by descending weight a duplicate entry is a defect. It may be a transcription slip, or the recipe may add cacao butter at two stages, and we cannot tell you which.

We have asked our distributor for a photograph of the pack so this page can quote a label rather than somebody's typing of one. When it arrives, this section changes.

The vegan claim holds here, and on the milk chocolate it cannot

Our distributor puts the same specification line on every Tyson food it sells: vegan, gluten-free, terpene-infused. We took that line apart on the milk chocolate bar, where the vegan half is impossible because whole milk powder is the bar's third ingredient.

On this cookie it holds. Nothing in the panel is animal-derived. The fats are cacao butter, shea butter and coconut oil, the chocolate is dark rather than milk, and the emulsifier named is sunflower lecithin. The gluten-free half holds too, on the strength of the oat base.

We are saying so because it would be easy not to. A line that is correct here and impossible three products along is still boilerplate rather than a specification, and being straight about the case where it works is the only thing that makes the criticism of the case where it does not worth reading.

The third element does not hold anywhere. Terpene-infused appears on all of these products and the only aromatic on this panel is bourbon vanilla.

Made for Euphoria in the Czech Republic, and the pattern now runs across three formats

The page carrying the panel names the producer as being for Euphoria in the Czech Republic. That is the same attribution the milk chocolate carries, and the chocolate bars' barcodes carry the matching company prefix. This is the third Tyson format we have traced to the same production chain.

The pattern that comes with it is now hard to read as coincidence. We stock Euphoria Cannabis Cookies and Euphoria CBD Cookies, both pots of twelve, and both declare 120mg. Euphoria's own chocolate bar declares 100mg of CBD. Every product carrying the producer's own name states a figure. Every product carrying the licensed celebrity brand states nothing.

The full argument, including the barcodes, is on the dark chocolate page and we have not repeated it here.

There is a 100mg THC Tyson cookie, and it is described almost identically

Every Tyson product in this range has an American counterpart that is a different thing under the same name. On this one the two are closer than is comfortable.

Forbes reported in October 2022 that Tyson 2.0 had launched a cookie with the American edibles maker Big Pete's containing 100mg of THC, described as an oatmeal chocolate chip cookie. It appears on US dispensary menus as an oatmeal chocolate chip extra strength cookie.

So the American product and this one are both oat-based chocolate chip cookies sold under the same brand, and the difference between them is a controlled drug. On the chocolate bars and the chewing gum the UK and US products were at least different formats. Here the descriptions are nearly interchangeable.

If you have read about a Tyson cookie with a milligram figure attached, you have read about the American one. This is a 50g hemp seed cookie with no cannabinoid declared in it, and it is the only one of the two that can lawfully be sold here.

For completeness, a US dispensary also sells a Tyson-branded cannabis flower called Dynamite Cookies, so the word attaches to three separate things under this brand.

We have filed a cookie on the chocolate shelf, and that is our mistake

This product sits in our catalogue under a subcategory called Chocolate. We have a Cookies and Biscuits shelf holding eight products, including four Multitrance cookies and three Euphoria ones, and this cookie is not on it.

The rule we set ourselves is that a shelf describes a format, meaning what the thing physically is, and that brand, cannabinoid and flavour are filters rather than shelves. A cookie with chocolate drops in it is a cookie. Filing it under Chocolate is exactly the sort of error we rebuilt the taxonomy to remove, and we found it while writing this page rather than in a review.

It is being corrected at the source. We are noting it here because if you arrived by browsing the chocolate shelf, that is why, and because a site that quietly fixes its own errors and loudly lists everyone else's is not one worth trusting.

Our generated description for this product also calls it a CBD-isolate CBD edible. There is no isolate in it and no CBD declared on it. That is the twenty-first line in this brand group where our own copy has asserted a cannabinoid on something that declares none, and it is being fixed in the same pass.

How it eats, the law, and who should skip it

Expect an oat cookie rather than a soft bakery one. Oat flakes and desiccated coconut give a chewy, slightly fibrous body with a coarse, flapjack-adjacent texture, and coconut syrup sweetens it with a caramel edge rather than a clean sugar sweetness. The cashew reads as buttery richness more than as distinct pieces of nut, and the dark chocolate drops are the sharpest thing in it. The hemp seed adds a fine green nuttiness that is easy to miss against the coconut.

At 50g it is a single generous cookie rather than a snack you graze on.

Legally there is very little to say, which is the point. A hemp seed cookie with no cannabinoid in it is an ordinary food. The Novel Foods regime covers ingestible CBD and does not reach a product that declares none. The limit that governs anything carrying controlled cannabinoids on a UK shelf is 1mg per container rather than any percentage, and the retailer publishing the panel also prints a percentage figure that has never been a consumer test. Our legality article works through why.

Who should skip it: anyone with a nut allergy, without qualification. Anyone who wanted CBD, because there is none. Anyone expecting a soft chocolate chip cookie, because this is an oat and coconut one. And anyone who dislikes coconut, because there is a lot of it and the name gives no warning at all.