CBD Coffee: Can You Mix CBD and Caffeine? How to Make It and What to Know

CBD coffee UK: which Evopure product fits your coffee routine?

Choose by format and routine. Checked against our product pages in October 2026.

Product	Format and strengths	How it fits your coffee	What to know
Broad Spectrum CBD Oil	Unflavoured oil, 500mg, 1,000mg or 2,000mg (5%, 10% or 20%)	Stirred into the milk of a latte	Just CBD and organic MCT oil. 4, 2 or 1 drop for 10mg
Flow CBD Oil with Ashwagandha and Maca	Oil, 500mg or 1,000mg (5% or 10%)	A morning routine, in or alongside your first coffee	About 4 or 2 drops for 10mg. Avoid ashwagandha if you’re pregnant, breastfeeding or have a thyroid, liver or autoimmune condition
Broad Spectrum CBD Capsules	Capsules, 10mg or 25mg, 30 a pack	Swallowed with your coffee	No taste and no oil on the cup. One 10mg capsule matches the FSA’s daily figure
Reishi Mushroom Adaptogenic Complex	Reishi hot chocolate powder, 1 to 2 teaspoons a mug	A caffeine-light afternoon swap for a second coffee	reishi mushroom, cacao and maca. Contains a little natural caffeine. No CBD

The FSA’s 10mg a day figure is precautionary advice rather than a legal limit, set while longer-term safety research continues. At Evopure we think it is a very cautious figure, and many adults use more. If you go above it, increase slowly, and check with your GP or pharmacist first if you take any medication.

How to compare value: divide the price by the total mg of CBD to get the cost per mg. A 10ml bottle holds 50 to 200 cups at 10mg; a can is one. Stronger bottles cost less per mg, so the 2,000mg Broad Spectrum CBD Oil works out cheapest of the CBD products above. Capsules cost more per mg because you’re paying for a ready-measured dose. Subscribe and Save lowers the price of every order, and you can skip, pause or cancel any time.

What you get with Evopure:

• Our CBD oils and capsules: every batch third-party tested at ISO 17025 labs for CBD content, THC and contaminants. Request your batch report on our lab testing page.
• Our CBD is broad spectrum and THC free, confirmed on each batch’s lab report, and on the FSA public list, linked to validated applications (RP438, RP821 and RP47), so legal to sell while they are assessed.
• All four are made in the UK, vegan and alcohol-free.
• Tracked Royal Mail delivery across the UK, dispatched the same day if you order before 3pm Monday to Thursday (delivery details). Unopened, unused items can be returned within 14 days of delivery (returns policy).

They’re food supplements, not medicines, and we don’t claim CBD coffee does anything the research hasn’t shown. Ready to choose? Start with the Broad Spectrum CBD Oil for a latte, Flow for a morning routine, the capsules if you’d rather not taste it, or Reishi Cacao as an afternoon swap.

How to make a CBD latte

Put the oil into the milk, not the coffee. CBD dissolves in fat, so it mixes into milk but floats on black coffee.

1. Warm your milk until it steams, but don’t let it boil. Oat milk works well, ideally a barista or full-fat one, as the oil needs fat to mix into.
2. Add your CBD to the milk, starting at around 10mg: 4 drops of a 5% oil, 2 of a 10% or 1 of a 20%.
3. Froth or whisk it, or shake it in a jar, so the oil spreads through the milk.
4. Brew your coffee as usual (espresso, cafetière, filter or instant) and let it cool for a minute.
5. Pour the coffee into the milk, stir, and swirl the last mouthful so none is left on the cup.

For an iced CBD latte, shake the oil into cold oat milk, then add a cooled espresso and ice.

Our Broad Spectrum CBD Oil has no added flavour, so it hides easily in a latte.

What is CBD coffee?

CBD coffee is any coffee that contains cannabidiol (CBD), a compound from the hemp plant. It comes as CBD oil added to your own cup, infused beans or grounds, pods and instant coffee, or ready-to-drink cans and café lattes. CBD dissolves in fat, so the type changes how much reaches your cup (compared below).

Is CBD coffee legal in the UK?

Yes, if the product is linked to an application on the FSA’s public list of CBD products and contains no detectable THC. CBD is a novel food, and the FSA advises that products not on the list should be removed from sale. If a café offers a CBD latte, ask which product they use.

THC, not CBD, is the controlled part of cannabis, and it is THC that has a UK drug-driving limit. See our guides to UK CBD law and CBD and driving.

Can you take CBD with coffee?

For most healthy adults, yes, at modest amounts of both. The bigger questions are how much CBD you are really getting, how much caffeine you drink, and whether you take any medicines.

The FSA advises against CBD for some groups unless under medical direction: under-18s, people taking any medication, and anyone trying to conceive, pregnant or breastfeeding.

CBD and caffeine: what the evidence says

Caffeine is broken down in the liver, mainly by an enzyme called CYP1A2, and CBD weakly blocks that enzyme. The clearest evidence comes from a 2021 trial run by the maker of the prescription CBD medicine Epidyolex. Healthy adults built up to 1,500mg of CBD a day (750mg twice a day) and were then given 200mg of caffeine, about two mugs of instant coffee.

• Their total caffeine exposure almost doubled (up 95%).
• Caffeine’s half-life rose from 5.4 hours to 10.9 hours, so it stayed in the body twice as long.
• Only 9 of the 16 people who started finished; 6 stopped because of raised liver enzymes at this very high dose.

A typical supplement dose of 10mg is 150 times lower, so any effect is likely to be small, but nobody has measured it at everyday amounts. It is a sensible reason not to overdo either. Our guide to how long caffeine lasts explains the half-life.

Does CBD cancel out caffeine?

No. You will often read that CBD takes the edge off coffee, but the research doesn’t show that.

In a 2024 study, 54 young adults who drank at least 200mg of caffeine a day took 200mg of caffeine with either a placebo or CBD (25, 50, 80, 160 or 240mg). Over the next 140 minutes they rated how they felt, including general drug effects and anxiety. CBD made little difference to how the caffeine felt, and the combination caused no negative effects. The authors call the results preliminary: it was a single session held over Zoom, and two of the authors work for CBD companies.

In short, CBD and caffeine seem to sit alongside each other rather than cancel out. If coffee makes you shaky or on edge, the fix with real evidence behind it is less caffeine: a smaller cup, a half-caf, or no coffee after midday. See does caffeine cause anxiety? for how much is too much, and caffeine withdrawal if you plan to cut down.

How much caffeine is too much?

The caffeine is still the main active ingredient in a CBD coffee. EFSA, the European food safety body, says up to 400mg of caffeine a day, spread across the day, does not raise safety concerns for healthy adults, and nor does up to 200mg in one go. It also notes that 100mg close to bedtime may affect sleep in some adults. In pregnancy, the NHS says no more than 200mg a day, in line with EFSA.

A CBD coffee counts towards EFSA’s 400mg a day in exactly the same way as an ordinary one, so a CBD latte made with instant plus three more mugs of instant is about 400mg.

Does heat destroy CBD in coffee?

Probably not much in the few minutes it takes to drink a cup, although no study has measured CBD in coffee directly. Lab research shows CBD breaks down with long or repeated heat. In a 2022 study, commercial CBD oils were kept at 50°C for 2 days or 70°C for 14 days to mimic ageing. CBD fell most in products made with sunflower oil and less in those made with MCT oil. That is far longer than a coffee stays hot, but it is a good reason to:

• add CBD after brewing, not to the beans, the water or the pot;
• let just-boiled coffee cool for a minute first;
• never reheat a CBD coffee on the hob or keep it on a hotplate;
• store your oil somewhere cool and dark between uses.

Our guide to cooking with CBD oil covers heat in more depth, including baking temperatures.

Why CBD oil floats on coffee (and how to fix it)

CBD dissolves in fat, not water, and CBD oils are made with a carrier oil such as MCT. Oil is lighter than water, so drops on black coffee sit on top and stick to the cup, and you may not swallow your full dose.

The fix is fat. Stir the oil into whole milk, a creamy oat or barista-style plant milk, or a splash of cream first, or blend the whole drink for a few seconds. Fat also affects how much CBD you absorb. In a 2020 trial using a 750mg medicinal dose, taking CBD with whole milk raised the amount absorbed about 2.4-fold compared with an empty stomach, and a high-fat meal raised it about 3.8-fold. Those are pharmaceutical doses, so treat the numbers as a guide to direction rather than a promise for a 10mg drop.

If you don’t like taking oil at all, compare formats in CBD oil vs gummies.

Ready-made CBD coffee or your own oil?

Ready-made is convenient, but the dose may not match the label. Your own oil lets you hit 10mg exactly.

How accurate is the dose in ready-made CBD drinks?

Often not very. In a 2023 study from Loughborough University, researchers bought 63 CBD products online in the UK and measured what was actually in them.

Only 5 of the 63 products (8%) were within 10% of their label. Whatever format you choose:

• check the product is linked to the FSA public list;
• ask for a recent third-party lab report for that batch, and check it shows the CBD content and no detectable THC (here’s how to read a CBD lab report);
• count all your CBD for the day, not just the coffee.

Our CBD dosage guide has a drops chart for each strength, and water-soluble CBD explains the drops some cafés use instead of oil.

Decaf CBD coffee, and the best time to drink it

Decaf isn’t caffeine-free. In a study of ten decaf coffees bought from different US outlets, a 16oz (about 470ml) cup held 0 to 13.9mg of caffeine, against about 100mg in a mug of instant. That makes a decaf CBD latte a sensible choice after midday or if you’re cutting down. More in our decaf coffee guide.

• Morning: in the 2021 trial above, caffeine’s half-life was 5.4 hours, so a morning CBD coffee is the kindest to your sleep. See how long caffeine lasts for when to stop.
• Together or separate: fine for most people at modest amounts. Some prefer coffee in the morning and CBD in the evening; see the best time to take CBD oil.
• Work and study: see what research shows in CBD and focus.

Prefer less caffeine?

You don’t need coffee to take CBD. A herbal tea works with the same milk-first method (see how to make CBD tea), or try a mushroom coffee or one of our coffee alternatives. Our Reishi Cacao contains a little natural caffeine from the cacao, much less than a mug of coffee; see reishi cacao for the numbers.

CBD, coffee and medicines

CBD is processed by the same liver enzymes as many medicines, and the caffeine trial above shows it can slow how fast some substances are cleared. Caffeine has its own interactions too, and the FSA advises people on any medication not to take CBD unless under medical direction.

If you take a prescription medicine, speak to your GP or pharmacist before adding CBD to your coffee or anything else. Our guide on whether CBD can interact with medication explains which kinds of medicine to check. If you ever feel your heart racing after CBD and coffee together, see can CBD cause heart palpitations?, cut back on the caffeine first, and speak to your GP if it keeps happening.

CBD coffee benefits: what it can and can’t do

No study has tested CBD coffee itself, so be wary of any brand promising particular effects from a cup. CBD isn’t a treatment for anxiety, stress or any other condition, and most people notice little beyond the coffee at everyday amounts.

The real advantages are practical: a morning coffee is an easy habit to attach a CBD routine to, and milk gives the oil some fat to mix with.

Who should avoid it

• Pregnancy and breastfeeding: the FSA advises against CBD, and the NHS says no more than 200mg of caffeine a day in pregnancy. We don’t recommend our products during pregnancy or breastfeeding.
• Medicines: CBD can interact with some, and so can caffeine. Ask your GP or pharmacist first.
• Heart rhythm problems, anxiety disorders or poor sleep: look at your caffeine first, and speak to your GP if you are unsure.
• Under-18s: CBD products are for adults only.

Related guides

• CBD cake recipes to go with your coffee.
• How to make CBD butter, with a dosing chart.
• Prefer a cold drink? See how to add CBD oil to a smoothie.
• Do Trip drinks contain CBD? Ready-made CBD drinks explained.
• For other ways to take it by mouth, see how to take CBD oil orally.
• Some drink brands also list CBD coffee on the FSA list; see Goodrays.