Faded Fruits Flavour Guide: All 18 Described Honestly

Eighteen flavours is a lot to choose from when the pack art tells you very little about the taste. This guide describes each one honestly, groups them by the kind of sweet you already like, and says plainly which ones divide opinion.

On this page

• How to use this guide
• All 18 at a glance
• The sour ones
• The sweet ones
• The true fruit flavours
• The unusual ones
• Best first purchase
• A note on the strain labels
• Whatever you pick, the dose is the same problem
• How the other ranges compare on flavour
• Flavour fatigue and rotating pouches
• What the flavour cannot tell you
• Frequently asked questions

How to use this guide

Pick on flavour, not on the strain label. You will be working through this pouch in small portions over weeks or months, so a taste you actively enjoy matters far more than a botanical category that, as covered in our guide to indica versus sativa in edibles, tells you very little once digestion is involved.

The most reliable predictor is what you already reach for in an ordinary sweet shop. If you buy sour sweets, the sour section below is where you belong. If you buy chews and bonbons, go to the sweet section. That heuristic works better than anything on the packaging.

All 18 at a glance

The sour ones

Sour Apple is the most straightforwardly sour in the range, with a heavy acidic coating over a green apple base. If you buy sour laces or sour worms, this is the obvious pick. It is also the one people most often describe as tasting like a sweet they actually recognise.

Grapefruit Haze is sour in a different register: bitter rather than acidic, with the slightly medicinal edge real grapefruit has. It is genuinely divisive. People who like bitter citrus find it the most interesting flavour here, and people who do not find it unpleasant.

Lime Diesel is sharp lime with a faintly fuel like note behind it that the name is honest about. Cleaner and less sugary than most of the range, and a good option if you find the sweeter flavours cloying in repeated small doses.

The sweet ones

Cotton Candy Kush is the sweetest thing here by a clear margin, tasting of candy floss with almost no tartness to balance it. People either love it or find it too much after two pieces. There is not much middle ground.

Bubblegum Gelato is close behind, with a classic bubblegum flavour and a creamy finish that softens it slightly. More nostalgic than complex, and a reliable pick if bubblegum is a flavour you enjoy rather than tolerate.

Grape Ape is deep artificial concord grape, the flavour of purple sweets rather than of actual grapes. Very sweet, very recognisable, and consistently one of the most requested.

Strawnana combines strawberry and banana into something creamy and soft. Gentler than most of the range and a good choice if you find strong flavours tiring.

Cherry OG is dark, rich and slightly syrupy, closer to black cherry than to the bright red cherry of most sweets. More grown up than its neighbours.

The true fruit flavours

Strawberry Cough is clean, bright and genuinely strawberry led without the artificial edge some of the range has. Along with Blue Slush it is the most consistently popular first purchase, and it is hard to dislike.

Mango Kush tastes of ripe mango rather than tropical punch generally, full and rounded with a slightly floral finish. One of the better executed flavours here.

Watermelon Zkittlez leads with watermelon and brings mixed fruit candy behind it, landing somewhere between a single flavour and an assortment. Balanced sweet and sour.

Pineapple Express is sweet tropical pineapple, and it is the one to note carefully because it is the 1000mg option in this range rather than 500mg. Same flavour quality, double the total, so recalculate your portion rather than assuming.

Lemon Tree is lemon zest with a sherbet finish, sitting between the sweet and sour groups. A good middle option if you cannot decide.

Pink Lemonade is tart lemonade with berry sweetness underneath. Refreshing rather than heavy, and one of the easier flavours to eat repeatedly.

Orange Sherbet is creamy orange rather than sharp, closer to an ice cream flavour than a citrus one. Mild and easy going.

The unusual ones

Blue Slush is not unusual in taste, it is blue raspberry slush and it is excellent, but it deserves a mention because it outsells almost everything else. If you want the safest possible choice, this is it.

Cola tastes like a cola bottle sweet, with the vanilla and spice notes that come with it. It is the only flavour here that is not fruit based, and it is a good change if the rest of the range starts blending together.

Mystery OG is unmarked and varies between batches, which is the entire point. Fun if you like the surprise, frustrating if you have a flavour you are trying to avoid. Not a good first purchase for that reason.

Best first purchase

If you have never tried the range, buy Blue Slush or Strawberry Cough. Both are broadly liked, neither is challenging, and they give you a baseline to judge everything else against.

If you know you prefer sour, start with Sour Apple. If you know you prefer very sweet, start with Cotton Candy Kush. Avoid Grapefruit Haze and Mystery OG as first purchases, the first because it is divisive and the second because you cannot predict it.

Buy single pouches until you have found two or three you genuinely like. Only then consider a mixed box, because a case of an assortment you have not tested is an expensive way to discover a preference.

A note on the strain labels

Every flavour here carries an indica, sativa or hybrid label. Those labels correspond loosely to flavour families, with indica options clustering around darker berry and grape profiles and sativa options around brighter citrus, but they are a weaker guide to effect than they appear.

In an edible, the liver converts much of the THC into a longer acting compound, and that conversion shapes the experience more than lineage does. Most gummies are also made from distillate with flavour added afterwards, so the taste is a flavouring decision rather than something the plant contributed. Use the labels as a soft cue for time of day if you find that helpful, and choose on flavour otherwise.

Whatever you pick, the dose is the same problem

All of these pouches state 500mg as the total for the bag, not per piece, with the exception of Pineapple Express at 1000mg. Divide the printed total by the piece count on the back to get your working figure, and check it on every new pouch, because counts vary between production runs.

Start with a fraction of a piece, note the time, and wait two full hours before considering more. Our dosing guide covers the arithmetic and our guide to onset timing covers what to expect while you wait. Store everything sealed, cool and locked away from children and pets. Because these are unlicensed novelty edibles rather than tested dispensary products, the printed total is a manufacturer claim rather than a verified laboratory figure, a point the US Food and Drug Administration has made repeatedly in its consumer guidance on cannabis edibles packaged to resemble familiar sweets. For general information on cannabis health effects, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publishes plain non commercial guidance.

Frequently asked questions

Which Faded Fruits flavour is best?

Blue Slush and Strawberry Cough are the most consistently popular and the safest first purchases. Beyond that it depends on whether you prefer sour, very sweet or true fruit flavours.

How many flavours are there?

Eighteen in the single pouch range stocked here, spread across indica, sativa and hybrid labels. Seventeen are 500mg and Pineapple Express is 1000mg.

Which is the sourest?

Sour Apple has the heaviest acidic coating. Grapefruit Haze is sour in a bitter rather than acidic way and divides opinion sharply. Lime Diesel is sharp and clean.

What is Mystery OG?

An unmarked flavour that varies between batches. Enjoyable if you like a surprise, but a poor first purchase because you cannot predict what you will get.

Do the flavours differ in strength?

No, they are all 500mg totals except Pineapple Express at 1000mg. Piece counts can vary between runs, so always check the back of the specific pouch.

Should I buy a mixed box to try them all?

Not first. Buy single pouches until you know two or three you like, then consider a box. A case of an untested assortment is an expensive way to find a preference.

How the other ranges compare on flavour

The eighteen above are the Faded Fruits line, but three other ranges sit alongside it and they take noticeably different approaches to flavour.

Full Send Canna Gummies drops strain naming entirely. Its nine options are labelled as plain fruit, so Blue Razz is blue raspberry and Mango is mango, with no indica or sativa cue to interpret. Some buyers strongly prefer this because it removes a layer of marketing language from the decision, and the flavours themselves are simpler and more direct than the Faded Fruits equivalents.

FKEM Gummies goes in the opposite direction with bolder and more unusual profiles at higher totals of 1500mg and 2000mg. Tajin Tango is the standout example, built around chilli, lime and salt seasoning rather than sweetness, and it is genuinely savoury. It is the most interesting flavour across any range stocked here and also the most likely to be disliked on a first try.

Stars of Death and Torch compete on potency rather than on flavour variety, and their ranges are correspondingly narrow. If flavour choice is what you care about, the Faded Fruits line and Full Send are where the options are.

Flavour fatigue and rotating pouches

Something that catches people out with a single pouch bought in bulk: eating the same flavour in small portions over several months gets tiring in a way that eating a whole bag of sweets in one sitting never does.

The very sweet flavours are the worst for this. Cotton Candy Kush and Bubblegum Gelato are enjoyable for the first week and can become wearing by the third, precisely because there is no tartness to reset your palate between pieces. The more balanced options such as Blue Slush, Pink Lemonade and Watermelon Zkittlez hold up considerably better over a long pouch.

If you use edibles regularly, keeping two contrasting pouches open and alternating between them solves this entirely. One sweet and one sour is the usual pairing, and it costs nothing beyond having a second bag. Just be aware that you now have two pouches with potentially different piece counts, so check both rather than assuming they match.

This is also a good argument for buying a couple of single pouches rather than one large box of a single flavour, at least until you know how a flavour wears on you over time rather than over an evening.

What the flavour cannot tell you

One closing caution, because a flavour guide can accidentally imply more than it should.

How a gummy tastes tells you nothing about what is in it. Flavouring is added after production and is entirely independent of cannabinoid content, so a pouch that tastes exactly as described may be underdosed, overdosed or not infused at all. Counterfeit product frequently tastes perfectly good, because the candy part is the easy part to get right.

So use this guide to pick something you will enjoy eating, and use the separate checks in our guide to spotting a fake pack to judge whether what arrived is genuine. Print quality, seal integrity and gummy uniformity are the signals that matter there, and none of them relate to taste.

And whichever flavour you land on, the arithmetic is unchanged: find the piece count, divide the printed total, take a fraction, wait two hours. A flavour you love does not make a dose you misjudged any easier to sit through.