Vitality CBD Lemon Oral Spray, 30ml

One of the two published figures is the wrong bottle's

Search for how much CBD is in a spray of this and you will find two answers, which is one more than there should be.

One says a spray is 0.16ml and delivers 3.2mg. The other says a spray is 0.14ml and delivers 5.6mg. Both are attached to the same 1200mg bottle.

The bottle settles it. Twelve hundred milligrams in thirty millilitres is forty milligrams in each millilitre, and from there it is multiplication.

Fourteen hundredths of a millilitre at forty milligrams a millilitre is 5.6mg. That figure is exactly right.

Sixteen hundredths of a millilitre at the same concentration is 6.4mg, not 3.2mg. The second figure is out by half against its own stated volume.

So where does 3.2mg come from? Work backwards: 3.2mg in 0.16ml is twenty milligrams in each millilitre, and twenty milligrams a millilitre is precisely the 600mg version of this bottle. The figure is not invented, it is simply the smaller bottle's number sitting on the larger bottle's listing.

This is the second time in as many products that we have found a figure belonging to a sibling attached to the wrong listing. Our Lemon Oral Drops page has a broad spectrum claim that appears to have wandered over from Vitality's vape line. It is worth developing the habit of checking a stated dose against the bottle it is printed on, because the sum takes less time than reading the paragraph around it.

With no pipette, the spray is the whole of your control

This bottle differs from Vitality's dual applicators in one respect that sounds administrative and is not: there is no pipette in the box.

That means one press is the smallest amount available to you. There is no half spray, no counting drops, no drawing a partial pipette. Your unit is an actuation, and at this strength that is about 5.6mg.

Whether that is a limitation depends entirely on the size of the unit relative to what you want. At 5.6mg it is a small step, which is the reverse of the situation on Vitality's stronger dual applicator, where our listing works out that a single spray is 22.4mg because the oil is four times more concentrated.

So the spray-only format is at its most useful on a lower-concentration bottle, which is exactly what this is. On a 4800mg bottle a spray is a blunt instrument. On a 1200mg one it is a reasonably fine one.

For context rather than instruction: the Food Standards Agency's precautionary advice for healthy adults is ten milligrams of CBD a day from supplements, and one press of this bottle is a little over half of that. Our dosage explainer sets out what that figure is and is not.

The hygiene argument nobody makes for sprays

There is a practical case for a spray head that has nothing to do with convenience and that we have not seen made anywhere.

A glass pipette is drawn full of oil, brought to the mouth, emptied under the tongue, and then put back into the bottle. It does that every time, for as long as the bottle lasts. Whatever the pipette touches on the way goes back into the oil with it.

A spray head does not work that way. It is held in front of the mouth, it delivers a mist, and nothing returns to the bottle. The tube inside never leaves the liquid and the nozzle never enters the mouth.

For a bottle used once or twice a day over several weeks, that is a genuine difference in how the contents are kept. It is also the reason sprays are the norm in pharmacy products taken the same way.

The other practical advantages are more obvious and still worth listing. A spray works one-handed. It works without looking, which a pipette does not. And it cannot be dropped and shattered, which a glass pipette very much can.

The other half of a comparison worth running

Our listing for the Lemon Oral Drops sets out something this bottle completes.

Vitality makes lemon in more formats than any other flavour, and the drops and this spray are both 30ml and both available at 1200mg. Same brand, same flavour, same strength, same concentration.

What differs is the carrier. This spray is built on MCT, a fractionated coconut oil that is close to flavourless. The drops are built on hemp seed oil, which is green, seedy and unmistakably present.

So the pair lets you taste what a carrier oil actually does, with everything else held constant. On this bottle the lemon arrives with almost nothing behind it: sharp, clean, closer to peel than to lemonade, and gone quickly. On the drops it has to share the mouth with the oil.

Neither is the correct answer. But if you have ever suspected that carrier oil is a detail brands invent to differentiate identical products, these two bottles are the simplest way to find out, and this is the plainer-tasting half.

Vitality and the FSA public list, stated precisely

Something turned up while researching this page that is worth reporting carefully, because the careless version would be wrong.

The Food Standards Agency maintains a public list of CBD products linked to novel food applications, and a Vitality entry appears in searches for this spray. It would be easy to write that this product is on the FSA list. We checked, and it is not that simple.

The entry we verified is for Vitality CBD Oral Drops in Hemp Seed Oil, 1200mg, Natural, 30ml. The applicant is Vitality CBD Ltd, the status is validated, the reference is RP-88 and it was last updated in July 2023. That is a sibling product rather than this bottle.

So what we can tell you accurately is this: Vitality CBD Ltd holds validated novel food applications and has products on the FSA public list, and the specific entry we opened covers its natural oral drops. Whether this exact spray carries an entry of its own is something we have not verified and will not assert.

One thing that matters more than any of it: being on the public list is not the same as being authorised. The FSA is explicit that inclusion is no guarantee a product will ultimately be authorised. Our Novel Foods explainer covers what the list actually represents.

Who should buy something else

Anyone who wants fine control. One press is your smallest unit and there is no way below it. The oral drops move in steps of about two milligrams instead.

Anyone who wants a stronger bottle. This runs at 600mg and 1200mg, while Vitality's dual applicators reach 4800mg, though they are harder to get.

Anyone who wants both applicators. The dual applicator bottles include a pipette and a spray head in the same box, which is a different product rather than a version of this one.

Anyone who prefers the taste of a plant carrier. MCT is deliberately flavourless, and if you want to taste hemp rather than only lemon, the oral drops are the other half of the pair above.

And anyone relying on a per-spray figure they read elsewhere should do the multiplication first, because at least one of the figures in circulation for this bottle belongs to the smaller one.