Tyson 2.0 Cannabis Dark Chocolate, 100g

What the bar is, and what it is not

Strip the branding away and this is a 100g dark chocolate bar with hulled hemp seeds in it. The cocoa figure is 47 per cent and the hemp seed figure is 10 per cent, both published by an EU listing and corroborated by a second source. It is individually wrapped and supplied to retailers in a display of 15 bars.

Hulled hemp seed is the shelled kernel of the hemp plant. It is a food ingredient, sold in health shops by the bag, and it is where the nutty texture in this bar comes from. What it is not is a source of CBD. The cannabinoids in hemp are concentrated in the flower and the leaf, not in the seed, and a hulled seed has had even the trace-bearing husk removed. We set out the whole distinction on the Multitrance bars, which have the same construction, so we will not repeat the argument here.

The consequence is simple. If you are looking for a chocolate bar that contains CBD, this is not it, and no amount of the word cannabis on the wrapper changes that. If you are looking for a dark chocolate bar with a hempy, nutty character and a boxer's name on the front, it is exactly what it says.

We would rather say that plainly than sell you a bar under a description its own label does not support.

The same Czech producer makes three of these bars, and only one contains CBD

This is the part no other listing tells you, and it is checkable from the barcode.

The barcode on this bar begins 8594196. That seven-digit block is a GS1 company prefix, which is issued to one company, and the 859 country code belongs to the Czech Republic. Euphoria's own dark chocolate bar carries a barcode beginning with the same seven digits. The UK retailer that publishes the milk bar's ingredient panel names the producer outright as being for Euphoria in the Czech Republic, and Euphoria's own trade site carries Tyson 2.0 as a category in its navigation alongside a private-label service.

So one Czech chocolate maker produces this bar, the Euphoria Cannabis Airlines bars we stock, and Euphoria's own-brand bars. Three brands, one factory, and a shared recipe skeleton: dark chocolate, hulled hemp seed at 10 per cent, soya lecithin, vanilla.

The difference is one ingredient. Euphoria's own-brand dark bar declares hemp extract containing 100mg of CBD in its ingredient list, in three published strengths. The Cannabis Airlines bars are described by our distributor as suitable for people wanting hemp-infused products without cannabinoids, which is at least honest. And this bar declares nothing.

Read the table below and the shape of the range becomes obvious. The bar with the celebrity licence on it is the one with the least in it, and it is the largest and the least cocoa-heavy of the three.

One specification line is used for two different bars, and it cannot be true of both

Our own distributor gives this bar a two-line specification. The ingredients line reads vegan, gluten-free and terpene-infused. The features line reads THC-free, lab-tested and discreet. The milk bar in the same range is given the identical two lines, word for word.

A UK retailer publishes the milk bar's ingredient panel. Its third ingredient is whole milk powder. Whole milk powder is dairy, so the milk bar is not vegan, and a line that calls both bars vegan is therefore boilerplate applied across a range rather than a description of either product.

The same panel is worth reading on the second claim as well. The aromatic ingredient named on it is vanilla aroma. There is no hemp extract on it, no cannabis oil, and no named terpene. A terpene infusion may be inside an undeclared flavouring, or the word may simply have been carried over from the brand's rolling papers, which genuinely are terpene infused. Either way it is not something the published label supports, and we are not going to assert it for you.

We have asked our distributor for the dark bar's own panel in writing. Until it arrives, everything on this page about ingredients is attributed to the source that published it, and nothing is inferred from the other bar.

Allergens, and why we will not guess

The milk bar's published panel declares whole milk powder, soy lecithin, and traces of various nuts. Our own listing and our distributor's listing declare none of those three. On a food product that is a gap worth naming rather than papering over, and we have raised it with them.

For the dark bar specifically we have no panel. A 47 per cent dark chocolate may or may not contain milk solids, plenty of bars at that cocoa level do, and it is very likely to share a production line with a milk bar containing nuts in trace. So the honest position is that we cannot tell you the dark bar's allergen set, and we are not going to reason it across from its sibling.

If nuts, dairy or soya matter to you, contact us before ordering either bar and we will get the panel from the distributor first. Guessing about an allergen is the one thing a product page has no business doing.

How it tastes, and why 47 per cent is worth knowing

Forty-seven per cent is low for a bar sold as dark chocolate. The convention in the UK sits nearer 60 to 70 per cent, and the sibling bar from the same factory is 70. At 47 the sugar is doing more of the work, so expect something closer to the middle of the range: cocoa-forward against a milk bar, but rounded and sweet rather than dry or bitter.

The hemp seed is the more interesting half of the eating experience. Hulled seeds at 10 per cent are a texture ingredient more than a flavour one. They give a fine, sandy crunch that runs through the whole bar rather than sitting in pockets, closer to a seeded chocolate than a nut-studded one. The flavour they add is a soft green nuttiness, somewhere between sunflower seed and pine nut, and it comes through most in the finish.

That combination is the honest reason to buy this bar. A 47 per cent cocoa base is soft enough to let a subtle seed flavour register at all, where a 70 per cent bar tends to bury it. If you have tried a dark hemp seed chocolate and found the seed disappeared, this is the one where it does not.

Who it is wrong for: anyone who wants a serious dark chocolate, anyone who wants CBD, and anyone who dislikes seeded textures. It is a 100g bar, which is a large format, and the seed crunch does not thin out as you work through it.

Three different things are sold under this name

Search the brand and you will land on products that have almost nothing in common beyond the licence.

This bar is the UK and EU product: hemp seed chocolate, Czech-made, no declared cannabinoid. The American Tyson 2.0 chocolate is a dispensary edible sold and dosed in milligrams of Delta-9 THC, and American commentary compares the range on sugar content per 100mg bar. Delta-9 THC is a controlled drug in the UK, so that is a different product under the same wrapper, not a stronger version of this one. Separately, Royal Queen Seeds sells cannabis seeds under a Mike Tyson name, which is neither.

This is the second time the split has come up on this brand. The Mike Bites gummies page works through it in full, including why UK reviews and American reviews of the same product name describe entirely different things, so we will point you there rather than write it twice.

The practical version: anything you read about this brand that mentions a milligram dose of THC is not about the bar on this page.

Where UK law actually sits on a bar like this

A hemp seed chocolate with no cannabinoid ingredient is an ordinary food. It is not a CBD product, so the Novel Foods authorisation question does not arise for it, and the controlled-cannabinoid limit is not in play either.

It is worth stating what that limit is, because one of the retailers selling this bar states it wrong. Its sitewide note claims that everything it supplies containing CBD holds under 0.2 per cent THC. That figure is a threshold for the hemp crop a farmer is licensed to grow. It is not a consumer limit, and it is not a percentage at all: the test that applies to a product on a UK shelf is 1mg of controlled cannabinoids per container, whatever the container's size. On a 100g bar a percentage-based reading would allow hundreds of times the real limit. Our legality article works the arithmetic through.

None of that is a problem for this particular bar, precisely because it declares no cannabinoid. It is a reason to be careful with the retailer's other listings, and a reason to read the container figure rather than the percentage on anything that does contain CBD.

We sell this to over-18s only. That is our own policy on the cannabis-branded confectionery we stock rather than a legal requirement on chocolate, and we apply it consistently across the shelf.

What our own listing gets wrong, and what we have done about it

Our catalogue is generated from our distributors' feeds, and on this line the generator has produced a description that says the opposite of the label. It calls the bar a CBD-isolate CBD edible. There is no isolate in it and no CBD declared on it, and this is the eighteenth product in this brand group where the generator has asserted a cannabinoid on something that declares none.

The underlying record is self-contradictory too: it holds a strength of zero and a spectrum of isolate at the same time, which cannot both describe a real product. The generated line is what you would have read on the card before this page existed, and it is being fixed at the source rather than patched here.

We are also carrying two separate listings for what is one bar in two finishes. The dark and the milk share a producer, a weight, a hemp seed percentage and a distributor description that is identical apart from one word. They belong together as a single product with a dark or milk choice, and that is what we have recommended internally. Until that happens, this page covers both and the milk listing points here.