SYX Spearmint Nicotine Pouches

What is on this listing

The listing carries a single image, of the lid. It will not show you the pouch format, the portion count or the layout beneath the cap, and since this page spends a long section on the can as a physical object, it is worth saying at the outset that the photograph is not the source for any of that.

Spearmint, and the one word our catalogue actually holds

Spearmint is the softer half of the mint pair. Where peppermint reads brisk, dry and cool, spearmint reads rounder and sweeter, with a leafy, faintly grassy character sitting behind the sweetness and a gentler finish. It is the mint most people have the deepest familiarity with without thinking about it, because it is the register of chewing gum and of the mint served with lamb — sweet-adjacent, herbal, and noticeably less austere than its sharper relative. On the cool axis it sits lower than peppermint; on the sweet axis, higher; and it finishes soft rather than dry.

That is what the word means. Here is what our records contain: one flavour tag, reading mint. Nothing else. The identical tag sits on SYX Peppermint and on SYX Cool Mint, both from the same brand at the same £29.90. Three cans, three different words on three lids, and one word of tagging shared between them. Our data draws no distinction whatsoever, and no amount of filtering our shelves will produce one.

We are spelling that out because the alternative is to write a confident comparison and quietly source it from nowhere. What is genuinely true is that spearmint and peppermint denote different things in ordinary usage, and that a maker putting those two words on two different cans is deliberately signalling a difference. What is not available to us is how large that difference is between these two specific cans, or whether Cool Mint — which names a direction rather than a plant — sits nearer one than the other. We hold no sensory notes, no tasting panel and no maker's statement. A page that told you the gap was wide, or narrow, would be inventing the answer.

There is one useful consequence of the plant being named, and it applies to shopping rather than to taste. Two of this can's nearest neighbours are also spearmint-named: Edge Spearmint at £14.95 and Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19, both in stock as this is written. That gives a spearmint shopper an actual comparison set — three cans from three makers all claiming the same plant. Someone shopping the cool-named cans has no equivalent, because two products described as "arctic" or "freeze" are not claiming the same thing as one another at all. Naming the plant does not make a product better. It makes the shelf legible.

On aroma we hold nothing for this product and so have nothing to report. What can be said generally is that cans of this type give up more of their character on opening than during use, which is the ordinary reason people offer for keeping the lid shut between portions — a statement about lids rather than about spearmint.

The declared figures, and what they are not

This line declares 6mg and 12mg. Both variants are £29.90. These are the manufacturer's declarations and we publish them because they are facts about the can and because you should see them before buying rather than after.

We will not rank the two and we cannot advise you between them. The 12mg can is not a superior can and the 6mg is not a starter version of it; there is no ladder here and we are not going to imply one exists. Which declared figure suits any individual is not a judgement a shop is in any position to make — we do not know you, we cannot know you, and a description written for every reader at once is precisely the wrong place to look for that decision. If you want guidance on it, that is between you and, if you choose to involve one, a healthcare professional.

The identical pricing removes even the accidental tiebreaker. On listings where the higher figure costs more, price sometimes decides by default. Here it cannot, and what is left is a number on a label with nothing we can honestly add to it.

The shelf mechanics are worth understanding, since they cause confusion regularly. Our strength categories are bands covering ranges rather than single values. This can declares two figures, the catalogue sorts the whole span, and the result is a place on the medium band among 134 others — some declaring one figure, some three, some spanning more ground than this. The shelf name describes where a declared range falls. It says nothing about what is in any particular can, and the bands beyond it, Strong and Extra Strong, work identically. They shorten a long catalogue. They are not a scoring system.

Using one

The operating procedure is short enough to fit in a sentence: take a pouch from the can, tuck it under the lip, leave it there, and put it in a bin when you are finished. Nothing charges, lights, fills, cleans or assembles, and the pouch is the only consumable involved.

How many pouches are in a can is a figure our records do not hold for this product, and we are not going to supply one from imagination. Counts differ between makers and occasionally between formats from a single maker. The number is printed on the can, and on a ten-can order it is arguably the most consequential fact in the whole transaction, so the label is the source and this page is honestly blank on it.

The pouch format is the same gap. Slim, mini and regular all exist across the wider category and our catalogue does not record which is in this can. We are not going to choose the most flattering option and present it as known.

How long a pouch stays in varies enormously between people using the same product, and we will not print a duration — any figure would be invented, and in any case it is not something a shop should be instructing anyone about. The same applies to how many someone gets through: your business entirely, and nothing on which we hold a publishable view.

Disposal is where people most often go wrong, so it gets stated flatly. A used pouch goes in general waste. Not down a sink or a lavatory, where it will not break down. Not left loose in a pocket, a car door or a bedside drawer where a child or an animal could find it. The lid compartment, if this can has one, is a place to hold a used pouch until you reach a bin — which is a holding space, not disposal, and emptying it is your job.

Comparing across a shelf: what that can and cannot tell you

The natural thing to want from a page like this is a comparison against the other cans on the same shelf at the same declared strength. It is a reasonable thing to want, and this section is about how far the data on this page actually supports it, because the honest answer is: further in some directions than others.

Start with what the neighbour list on this page actually is. It is built from products that share at least one shelf with this can. Sharing a shelf might mean sharing the mint tag, or the medium band, or both — and this page does not record which, for any given neighbour. So describing them as "the other cans at the same strength" would be an overstatement. They are cans that overlap with this one somewhere in our filing. That is a weaker claim than it sounds, and it is the accurate one.

What the shelf does support is a comparison on the things we hold for every listing: price, brand, flavour name and availability. On price, the spread among this can's neighbours is wide — from Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19 and Nordic Spirit Frosty Berry at £4.49 at one end, up through Edge Spearmint at £14.95 and Fumi Dark Spice at £27.90, to Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90, White Fox Double Mint at £34.90 and a cluster at £39.90 including 77 Apple Mint, XQS Arctic Freeze and Pablo Silver Edition Blueberry Peach Ice. That is roughly a tenfold range between the cheapest and dearest numbers on one page.

And here is the critical limitation on that comparison, which we would rather state than let you trip over. We publish what this listing contains — ten cans — and we do not publish on this page what any of those other listings contain. A £4.19 figure and a £39.90 figure are almost certainly not pricing the same quantity of anything. So the tenfold spread above is a spread of prices, not a spread of value, and converting one into the other requires information that lives on each of those products' own pages rather than on this one. We are not going to do that conversion for you from here, because doing it wrong would be worse than not doing it.

What a strength-band comparison genuinely cannot do is the thing people most often want it to. Two cans on the medium shelf are not interchangeable, and the shelf does not say they are. It says their declared ranges fall in the same window. Flavour, format, quantity, pouch count and price basis can all differ completely between two cans filed side by side, and on this site the strength band is the least informative thing two products can have in common. If you are using the band as a filter, use it as a first cut and then read the individual pages.

The most useful shelf comparison available from this page is therefore the narrowest one: the three spearmint-named cans mentioned earlier, from three makers, at £29.90, £14.95 and £4.19. They at least claim the same plant. Even there, we cannot tell you how closely they resemble one another in the mouth, because that would require sensory records we do not have. But claiming the same flavour is a real point of contact, and it is more than a shared strength band provides.

The can itself: lid, contents, pocket

This section is about the container rather than what is in it, which sounds like a minor subject and is not. The can is the part you interact with dozens of times, and most of the practical satisfaction or irritation in this format comes from it.

The shape and the material. A can in this category is small, round, rigid and flat-topped. Every one of those properties earns its place. Round means it does not catch in a pocket. Rigid means it does not crush, which matters more than it sounds — unlike a soft packet, a can protects its contents from being sat on, so the last portion is in the same condition as the first. Flat-topped means it stacks, which is what makes storing several of them tidy rather than a heap. It is an unglamorous piece of design that has been refined to the point of being unremarkable, which is generally the sign of something working.

The lid, and the compartment question. The lid does two jobs, one certain and one that we cannot confirm for this product. The certain job is closing. A can that shuts properly keeps its contents dry and keeps the aroma in, and a can left open on a desk overnight is the single commonest reason someone reports that their pouches have dried out or gone flat. Closing it every time is one second of effort and the most useful habit in the whole format.

The uncertain job is the catch compartment. Many cans in this category use a two-part lid, where an upper section twists or lifts to reveal a shallow space intended to hold used pouches separately from the fresh ones underneath. It is a genuinely good piece of design, because it solves the one awkward moment in the format — being somewhere without a bin. Our catalogue does not record whether SYX builds their cans this way, so we cannot tell you whether this one has it, and we are not going to assume it does because it would be convenient for this paragraph. You will know within ten seconds of picking the can up. If there is no compartment, the thing to do is decide in advance where used pouches go, rather than discovering the problem on a train.

What is inside, and what we do not know about it. The portion count is the gap we keep returning to, and it is worth explaining why it matters so much on this particular listing rather than just noting it again. When you buy one can, the count determines how long that can lasts. When you buy ten, the count determines how long the entire £29.90 lasts — the multiplier makes the unknown ten times more significant. It is the single piece of information that would most change how this purchase compares with anything else on our shelves, and it is precisely the piece we do not hold. The can states it. We would rather send you to the label than manufacture a number that looks authoritative.

Carrying one. A single can is a genuine pocket object. It goes in a coat pocket without a bulge, in the front pocket of a pair of jeans at a push, in the small zip pocket of a bag, in a glovebox or a desk drawer, and it needs no case, sleeve or protection. It is about the size of a small tin of shoe polish or a stack of coins. It survives being carried loose among keys.

The sleeve of ten is a different object entirely. This is the point people miss when buying a multipack for the first time. Ten cans is a column, not a pocket item — it takes real drawer or cupboard space, it is not something you carry, and it is best thought of as stock rather than as a purchase you take out with you. The practical arrangement most people arrive at is one can in circulation, perhaps a spare somewhere, and the remainder sealed at home. The cost of keeping a spare is nothing once you have bought ten; the only way it goes wrong is forgetting about it for months and finding it dried out, because a spare is still a can and cans keep best closed, cool and dry.

What the can does badly. One thing, and it deserves saying plainly: it is not childproof. Nothing about the lid is designed to resist a determined toddler, and the object is small, brightly finished and interesting to look at, which all works against you. Storage high up and behind a door is not excessive caution — it is the obvious response to a container that offers no resistance at all.

This can's place in the SYX range

Nine SYX lines sit on our shelves and this is one of them. The brand does something with pricing that makes the range unusually simple to work through: every SYX line in this can's list of brandmates is £29.90, and both declared strengths of this can are £29.90 too. No flavour carries a premium, and changing your mind costs nothing but the decision.

By name, the range splits three ways. Two lines are fruit — SYX Blueberry, pointing somewhere dark and rounded, and SYX Apple Kiwi, pointing somewhere green and orchard-sharp. Four are mint or mint-adjacent: this can and SYX Peppermint name plants, while SYX Cool Mint and SYX Freeze name a cool direction without naming a leaf. One is neither, SYX Icy Cola, which is the range's outlier on flavour. All six brandmates are in stock as this is written.

Most of the range's weight is in mint — four of the seven lines named above — and this can is the one aimed at the softer, sweeter end of it. If you want the brisker and drier end instead, the peppermint line is the one with that word on the lid. If you do not much mind which mint produces a cool register, the two direction-named cans are aimed there and their names are the only thing distinguishing them.

What we are not going to do is restate the declared figures of the other eight lines from this page. Each publishes its own on its own listing, and summarising eight labels at second hand is how a description ends up wrong about the thing that matters most. This can declares 6mg and 12mg. For the others, the brand page gathers all nine in one place.

Second cans that go well with this one

Almost nobody stays on one flavour indefinitely, and keeping a second can going is the ordinary pattern. The useful second can is a contrast rather than a near-repeat.

Inside the brand, the sharpest available contrast while staying in mint is the peppermint line at £29.90 — same maker, same price, and by the conventional sense of the two words, the drier and cooler of the pair. SYX Cool Mint and SYX Freeze at the same price are the direction-named options. For a real change of course, the two fruit lines and the cola line are the range's other directions, all at £29.90 and all currently available.

Outside the brand, the neighbour list offers several different ideas at very different prices. Edge Spearmint at £14.95 and Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19 are the two other cans claiming this same plant, which makes them the most direct comparisons on the page. Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90 and XQS Arctic Freeze at £39.90 are other makers' cool-without-a-plant approach. White Fox Double Mint at £34.90 puts two unnamed mints together. 77 Apple Mint at £39.90 pairs mint with fruit rather than choosing between them, and UBBS Cola Ice at £19.95 leaves mint entirely for something sweet with a drier close. Nordic Spirit Frosty Berry at £4.49 and Fumi Dark Spice at £27.90 are the two furthest from this can by name — one a cooled berry, the other named for a warm register altogether.

Every product named in this section is in stock at the time of writing, which is worth saying explicitly because it is frequently not the case elsewhere on this site. Where a page links to a can that cannot currently be bought, we say so at the link rather than letting you discover it at the basket. On this page, for now, the whole list is available — and each product page remains the authority on its own status.

Looking after a can

Storage is undemanding, and the failure modes are dull and preventable.

Keep cans closed, dry and away from direct heat. The three reliable offenders are a sunny windowsill, a car dashboard in summer and the shelf directly above a radiator. Heat and an open lid push the same way: they dry the contents and flatten the flavour. Nothing alarming happens — the can just becomes a poorer version of what you paid for, and across ten of them that is money quietly wasted.

Refrigeration is a question we cannot properly settle, and the reason is a genuine gap rather than evasion. Our catalogue does not record whether the pouches in this can are a dry or a moist format, and that distinction is exactly what would decide it. A cool, dry cupboard serves every version of this format perfectly well. If you do refrigerate, watch for condensation — a cold can opened straight away in a warm room picks up moisture it did not have before.

Across ten cans, the question that matters is the nine not in use. Keep them sealed in the sleeve, cool and dark, and open them one at a time; there is no advantage in breaking the whole roll and a clear cost in doing it. Keep the roll out of reach of children and pets, which given everything said above about the lid means high up and behind a door rather than on a counter or a bedside table.

The date printed on the can is the authority on how long it keeps. We cannot publish dates here — what we write is fixed and the can you receive carries its own — so check the base or the lid when the parcel arrives.

The decision this page asks of you

It is a small one. One pack size, ten cans. One price, £29.90. Two declared figures at that same price. Nothing else is configurable.

Since price is neutral between the variants, the declared number is the only variable, and we have said as clearly as we can that we will not rank the two or advise you between them. Both are stocked as this is written. Both are manufacturer declarations.

On quantity there is a limitation worth naming rather than hiding. We do not list a smaller amount of SYX Spearmint — no single can, no partial pack, no mixed-strength roll, so ten cans means ten cans of one declared figure. If committing to ten of a flavour you have not tried is more than you want to take on, that is a sensible reservation and this listing cannot accommodate it. Cheaper listings appear among this can's neighbours and are linked above, but they are different products from different makers, and buying one tells you about that product rather than this one.

Onward routes

Each of the three shelves holding this can answers a different question. Mint is the flavour route, 148 products deep and, as this page has laboured, tagged too broadly to separate one mint from another — read names there rather than tags. Medium Strength is the route if the declared range is your filter, 135 products deep. The SYX shelf is the route if the uniform £29.90 ten-can structure is what suits you.

Beyond them the bands continue through Strong and the Extra Strong shelf, neither of which holds this can. For browsing by maker rather than by number, the Pablo collection and Cuba are two of our other brand shelves, both built on a different pricing structure from SYX. The whole catalogue is there for when scrolling is easier than filtering.

Ordering it

The process is unremarkable: choose one of the two declared strengths, add it to the basket, and check out. Stock status displayed at the moment you look is the accurate one.

Age verification is the part that differs from ordinary shopping. This is an 18+ product. Verification applies during the order and ID may be requested on delivery. If nobody at the address can produce it, the courier may withhold the parcel — it will not be left in a porch or passed to a neighbour on the assumption that someone else will check. That is not awkwardness; it is how an age-restricted product has to be sold, and knowing it in advance saves a wasted delivery slot.

Delivery costs, timings and carriers are deliberately absent here, because they change and a fixed description is the wrong place for them. The checkout shows what applies to your basket and address. Orders across several lines travel together as one parcel in the ordinary way.

Straight answers to common questions

What is the difference between this and your peppermint can?

In ordinary usage, a real one: spearmint is rounder, sweeter and leafier, peppermint brisker, cooler and drier. In our catalogue, none at all — both carry the identical tag mint and we hold no sensory records for either. So the distinction we describe comes from what the two words mean, not from data, and how far these two particular cans differ is something we genuinely cannot tell you.

Do you have other spearmint cans to compare it with?

Yes, and that is unusually helpful. Two of this can's nearest neighbours name the same plant: Edge Spearmint at £14.95 and Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19, both in stock as this is written. Three cans from three makers claiming the same flavour is a real comparison set. We still cannot tell you how alike they taste, but a shared plant name is a firmer point of contact than a shared strength band.

How many cans and pouches do I get?

Ten cans for £29.90, a shade under £3.00 each. The pouch count per can is not a figure we hold, so we will not state one — counts vary by maker and format and the number is printed on the can. On a ten-can order that figure matters ten times more than it would on a single can, which is exactly why we would rather point at the label than guess.

Is the 12mg better than the 6mg?

No, and neither is the reverse. They are two declared figures, both the manufacturer's, both priced at £29.90, both stocked as this is written. We will not rank them and we cannot advise you on which is appropriate for you — that is not a determination a shop can make about a person it does not know, and a page written for every reader at once is the wrong place to seek it.

Does the can have a catch compartment for used pouches?

We cannot confirm it for this can. Two-part lids with a shallow catch space are common in this category, but our records do not state whether SYX builds theirs that way and we are not going to assume it. You will find out within seconds of handling one. If there is no compartment, decide where used pouches are going before you are somewhere without a bin — that is the one genuinely awkward moment in this format.

Can I buy a single can rather than ten?

Not from this listing. Ten cans at £29.90 is the only quantity we publish for SYX Spearmint, and there is no partial pack and no mixed-strength roll. Several cheaper listings sit among this can's neighbours and are linked above, but they are different products from different makers, and buying one of those tells you about that product rather than about this one.

Are the neighbours you list the same strength as this can?

Not necessarily, and we would rather be exact about it. The neighbour list is built from products sharing at least one shelf with this can, and that shared shelf might be the mint tag, the strength band, or both — this page does not record which for any given neighbour. Treat them as nearby in our filing rather than as matched on declared strength, and read the individual pages for the figures.

Why do the prices on this page range from £4.19 to £39.90?

Because those listings are not all pricing the same quantity, and we do not publish on this page what any of them contain. We publish what this one contains: ten cans for £29.90. Comparing a £4.19 number with a £29.90 number without first establishing what each includes is the easiest mistake to make in this category, and it is the reason we keep declining to convert prices into value on your behalf.

Where is it made?

We do not hold that information and will not guess at it. Origin, manufacturing arrangements and company history are not in our catalogue, and inventing them produces exactly the sort of authoritative-sounding detail that turns out to be false. The packaging and the manufacturer's own materials are where to look if that matters to your decision.

Should it be kept in the fridge?

A cool, dry cupboard is enough for ordinary use. We do not record whether this is a dry or a moist format, which is what would settle the question properly, so we are not issuing a rule. Keep the lid closed, keep cans out of direct heat and sunlight, leave the nine you are not using sealed in the sleeve, and check the date printed on the can.

Will I need ID at the door?

You may. This is an 18+ product, verification applies when the order is placed, and ID may be requested on delivery. The parcel will not be left unattended or given to anyone who cannot verify their age. Having something to hand on the delivery day makes it a brief exchange rather than a failed delivery and a repeat attempt.

Can I order this alongside other flavours?

Yes. Every line is its own listing, so a basket can hold this roll together with the brand's blueberry can, a mint from another maker, or anything else we stock. There is no restriction on mixing brands, flavours or price points, and nothing about this product requires it to ship separately.

The required statements

This page is written for adults in the United Kingdom who already use nicotine, and for no one else. The product is 18+ only and is sold only to adults who already use nicotine. Nothing here is addressed to anybody else or intended to encourage anybody to begin. Nicotine is an addictive substance.

It is not a licensed stop-smoking medicine, and it is not intended for non-smokers, for anyone who does not already use nicotine, for under-18s, or for anyone pregnant or breastfeeding. We make no health claim about it in either direction, and nothing above is medical advice or a recommendation about strength, quantity or use.

Age verification applies when the order is placed, and ID may be requested on delivery. Keep cans closed and out of reach of children and pets.

Closing note

Ten cans at £29.90, declared at 6mg or 12mg for the same money, named for the softer and sweeter of the two culinary mints. Our catalogue holds one broad tag for it, shared with every other mint we sell, and this page has said so instead of inventing a comparison it cannot support. What it has given a lot of room to instead is the can itself — the lid that must be closed, the compartment we cannot confirm, the portion count we do not hold, and the difference between a pocketable can and a sleeve of ten that belongs in a cupboard. The mint shelf runs to 148 products if you want to see how much company it keeps.