UBBS Menthol Nicotine Pouches

The listing, stated flatly

Everything above comes from our own product record. Nothing else on this page is allowed to contradict it, and where the record is silent, this page says so rather than guessing. That happens more often than a tidy product description would like to admit, and the silences are listed further down in one place so you can see the shape of them.

What our record does not carry for this can

We do not hold a pouch count per can. We do not hold a pouch weight or a stated format — whether these sit in the slimmer or the broader shape. We do not hold tin dimensions, a manufacturer, a country, a batch or production date, or any flavour description finer than that one word mint. Where those fields are blank in our system, they stay blank here.

The can's own printed labelling is the authority for all of it, and it travels with the product. If you need a figure that is printed on a lid — a count, a net weight, a declared milligram figure — read the lid, not a shop page. We reproduce what our record declares and we will not fill an empty field with something that sounds plausible, because a plausible invention on an age-restricted product page is worse than an acknowledged gap.

The three-strength listing is itself a piece of information worth pausing on. Most cans on our shelves come in one or two declared figures. This one comes in three, which is the widest spread UBBS offers on any single flavour we carry, and it means the choice you are making on this page is a choice about a number as much as about a taste.

Menthol as a taste, and as a word on a lid

Menthol is the flavour word for the cool, clean, almost glassy note that the mint family is known for — the sensation of cold arriving before any sweetness does. Described as taste and aroma only, that is what the name on this can promises: a straight cooling note, without a fruit sitting behind it, without a confectionery edge, without a dessert framing. The aroma on opening a can of anything labelled menthol tends to be the sharpest part of the experience and the shortest-lived.

What menthol is not, as a flavour word, is a sweet. Cans built around berries, colas or caramels are constructed to be enjoyed as flavours in their own right. A menthol name signals the opposite intention: cool first, and very little else asked of it. Whether this particular can delivers a bright cold or a softer one is not in our record, and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.

Against the brand's peppermint and its spearmint

UBBS sells three mints through us and this is one of them. The other two are UBBS Peppermint at £19.95, which is the only one of the three to reach a declared 20mg, and UBBS Spearmint at the same £19.95, which stops at 11mg. All three sit at one price and all three come as five cans. So the differences that matter are the name and the strength ladder.

As flavour words, the three names are not synonyms. Peppermint is conventionally the sharpest of the three — a brisk, almost peppery cold with a thin, clear edge to it, the note you associate with after-dinner confectionery. Spearmint is conventionally the rounder and sweeter one, softer on the palate, herbier, with markedly less of that cold snap and more of a leafy, almost grassy sweetness. Menthol, as a name, points at the cooling character stripped of either of those personalities: less confectionery than peppermint, less herbal than spearmint, and more single-minded than both.

Here is the honest part. Those are what the three words mean in general flavour language. They are not statements about what UBBS has put in these three cans, because our catalogue gives us no basis for that distinction at all. All three carry the identical single tag mint — not "menthol", not "peppermint", not "spearmint", just mint — and no tasting note, no intensity figure, no cooling rating and no ingredient detail sits behind it. On our data alone, the only thing separating these three listings is the word printed on the lid and the range of declared milligram figures.

We are not going to invent a difference to make three pages read differently. If you want to know how the brand's menthol actually compares with its peppermint on the palate, the only reliable method is to have all three in front of you, and the only thing we can tell you with certainty is that they cost the same and come in the same five-can arrangement. A shop that claims more precision than its records hold is guessing at your expense.

The can as an object: lid, compartment, count and pocket

Set the flavour aside for a moment. A great deal of what makes one can pleasant to live with and another irritating has nothing to do with taste, and everything to do with the tin itself — how it opens, what it does with the used ones, whether it survives a week in a coat pocket. This is the part of the product that most descriptions skip, and it is the part you handle twenty times a day.

The lid and the twist

Cans in this category are short, wide cylinders, and they open in one of two broad ways: a lid that lifts off against a friction fit, or a lid that turns through a partial rotation and clicks. The difference sounds trivial until you try to open one single-handed. A friction lid usually needs a thumbnail under the rim and a second hand steadying the base. A turning lid can generally be worked with one hand, which matters more than you would expect when the other hand is holding something.

Our record does not tell us which arrangement this particular can uses, so this page does not tell you either. What it can tell you is what to check when the pack arrives, because a five-can pack means five identical lids and you will find out the answer within a minute of opening the outer sleeve. If the lid type matters to you, that minute is the whole of the investigation.

The catch compartment

Most cans in this format are made in two levels. The lower level holds the unused pouches. The upper level, under the lid, is a shallow ring or a hinged shelf meant to hold used ones until you can dispose of them properly. It is a genuinely well-thought-out piece of design, and it is the single feature that makes the format practical away from a bin.

Two practical notes about it. First, the compartment is small — it is a temporary holding place for a handful, not a receptacle for a day's worth, and once it is full it stops closing cleanly and the lid starts to sit proud. Second, whatever goes in there is damp, and leaving it there for days is how a can starts to smell of something other than what it says on the lid. Empty it when you empty your pockets.

The right destination for a used pouch is household waste. They are not flushable, they should not go down a sink, and they should not be dropped on a pavement or left on a table where a child or an animal can reach them. That last point is not a courtesy note. A used pouch still holds material and it belongs in a closed bin, out of reach.

The count, and what a five-can pack actually weighs in a pocket

Per-can pouch counts in this category commonly sit somewhere in the teens or low twenties, and they vary by brand, by format and sometimes between flavours of one brand. We do not hold the figure for this can, so we are not going to print a number you might rely on when planning a week. Count the first can yourself and you will know the answer for every can in the pack.

The physical footprint is easier to speak about. A single can of this type is roughly the diameter of a small jar lid and about a finger's depth — it disappears into a jacket pocket, sits upright in a car door bin, and does not survive well in a tight jeans pocket where it will be sat on. The five-can pack, still sleeved, is a short column about the height of a hand span. That is a drawer or a bag item rather than a pocket item. Almost nobody carries five; people break the sleeve, take one, and leave the rest at home.

That is the main practical argument for a five-can pack over a single tin, and it is about logistics rather than value. One in the coat, one in the bag, three in a drawer, and you stop running out at inconvenient moments. It is also the main argument against, if you would rather not have four spare cans sitting in a house — a point worth taking seriously if there is anyone in the household for whom an adult nicotine product should not be within reach. Five cans want a high shelf or a locked drawer, not a kitchen worktop.

The empties

An empty can is still a can, and the ring of used pouches in the upper compartment is the reason to deal with it rather than letting it live in a bag. Tip the contents into a bin, and put the tin itself out with your recycling if your local scheme accepts it — that depends entirely on your council and on what the tin is made of, and we are not in a position to tell you which bin it belongs in where you live. Your council's own guidance is the only authority on that.

The format in practice

A pouch is a small sealed portion. It is placed between the lip and the gum, usually the upper lip, and it stays there. It is not chewed and it is not swallowed. It sits in one place, and most people settle within a few uses on a side and a position that suits the shape of their own mouth, which is a genuinely individual thing.

How long a single pouch stays in varies widely from person to person and from can to can. Some people take one out after ten or fifteen minutes; others leave it considerably longer. The flavour is at its most pronounced early and fades from there, and for a mint the fade tends to be the clearest signal that a pouch has given what it is going to give. We are not going to publish a recommended duration, because that would be dosage guidance and we are not in a position to give it. The manufacturer's own labelling is the place to look for anything of that kind.

The format is quiet and takes no equipment. There is nothing to charge, nothing to refill, nothing to empty at the end of the day, and no ash. That makes it easy to use in places where it will simply not be noticed — which is precisely why the question of where you are allowed to use it is worth separating from the question of whether anyone will spot you. Venues, employers, airlines and transport operators set their own rules about products of this kind, those rules vary, and it is on them to state them and on you to check. We do not know what your workplace policy says.

6mg, 11mg and 14mg: reading the number on the lid

The milligram figure is label information. It is the figure the manufacturer declares for that variant, and on this listing there are three of them:

Declared strength	Pack price	Per can
6mg	£19.95	£3.99
11mg	£19.95	£3.99
14mg	£19.95	£3.99

Three things follow from that table and none of them is advice. The price does not move with the number, so the figure is not something you are paying more or less for. The three figures are not evenly spaced — six to eleven is five, eleven to fourteen is three — and we have no explanation for the spacing beyond the fact that it is what the brand has chosen to declare. And eleven is an unusual number to print on a lid at all, when most of this catalogue runs on fours, sixes, tens, twelves and twenties. We are not going to construct a rationale for a manufacturer's arithmetic.

We cannot advise which of the three figures suits you. Not in general, not for your circumstances, and not by asking you a few questions first. A higher declared figure is not a better can and a lower one is not a lesser can — the number describes what is declared on the label, not quality, and nothing on this page should be read as pointing you up the ladder. If the question matters to your situation, it is one for a suitably qualified person and not for a shop.

What we can do is tell you where the figures put this listing on our own shelves. It is filed under Medium Strength, a shelf running to 135 listings, which is where the 6mg and 11mg variants sit comfortably. That shelf is one of three we sort declared figures into: above it are the strong shelf and the extra strong shelf. Those shelves are a filing convenience for browsing, not a ranking and not a recommendation, and the boundaries between them are ours rather than any standard.

The shelf comparison: what else sits near this figure

This is the section that a single product page usually refuses to write, because it involves pointing at other people's cans. It is also the most useful thing we can do for someone who already knows the format and is deciding between tins, so here it is: what else on our shelves occupies roughly the same ground as a five-can UBBS pack in the middle of the declared range, and how each one differs.

The other mints at a similar station

SYX Cool Mint at £29.90 is the nearest comparison in spirit — another cold mint from a brand that keeps its range small. Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90 and White Fox Double Mint at £34.90 are both priced well above this pack, and XQS Arctic Freeze at £39.90 sits at the top of that group. 77 Apple Mint, also £39.90, is the one in this cluster that adds a fruit to the cold instead of leaving it plain, so it is a different proposition rather than a like-for-like swap.

A caution about all five of those prices. Our pack gives us their price and their availability, and not their can counts, so a per-can comparison against this listing's £3.99 is not something this page can make honestly. A £39.90 listing may hold ten cans or one. Open the listing and read its own figures before you conclude anything about value — that is two clicks and it beats an inference.

The cheaper end, and why the numbers look the way they do

Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19 and Nordic Spirit Frosty Berry at £4.49 both look dramatically cheaper than £19.95 and almost certainly are not, for the same reason set out above: those figures are probably counting one tin against this listing's five. Edge Spearmint at £14.95 sits between the two extremes and is the only nearby listing priced within striking distance of this pack. Again: check what each price is actually buying.

Deliberately different, for when you want a change

Two nearby listings are here precisely because they are not mints. Fumi Dark Spice at £27.90 goes in a dark, spiced direction, which is about as far from a plain cooling note as our shelves travel. Pablo Silver Edition Blueberry Peach Ice at £39.90 stacks two fruits over a cold base, and Pablo has enough listings with us to have its own brand page worth a browse. Both are in stock. Neither is a substitute for this can; both are what people reach for when they want the opposite of it for a week.

Where this can falls in the UBBS range we carry

We hold twelve UBBS listings, all of them collected on the brand's own page, and the range divides cleanly into cold ones, fruit ones and a small set of darker flavours. Every UBBS listing we carry is £19.95 for five cans, so within this brand the choice really is only ever about the flavour name and the declared figure.

On the cold side, this can sits alongside the brand's peppermint and spearmint already discussed, plus UBBS Cola Ice at £19.95, which puts a cola note over a cold base and is the brand's bridge between its cold and sweet halves. On the sweet side there is UBBS Cherry, also £19.95, a straightforward stone-fruit flavour, and UBBS Peach Passion at £19.95, which our catalogue files under tropical rather than under peach and which is listed at a single declared 4mg — the lowest figure the brand offers through us.

The outlier is UBBS Coffee at £19.95, which is a roasted flavour rather than a cold or a fruit one, and which has almost nothing in common with the can on this page. All of those are currently available. The brand also has a salted caramel listing, which is not, and that is dealt with honestly in the questions below rather than dangled here.

Which of them suits whom is not something we can answer for you, but the map is simple enough to state: if you want cold and nothing else, this can and the brand's two other mints are the candidates; if you want cold with something over it, the cola listing; if you want sweet, the cherry or the tropical one; if you want neither cold nor sweet, the coffee. That is the whole range in a sentence, and it is a short range by design.

What people keep alongside a menthol can

Most people who use this format regularly do not run one can at a time. They keep two or three open and move between them, because a single flavour held all day flattens out — not because anything changes in the can, but because a palate stops registering a note it has had continuously since breakfast. The usual pattern is one cold can and one that is not.

If this is the cold one, the second can is typically something sweet or dark: the brand's cherry pack for a sweet contrast at the same price, or its coffee can for something roasted. Outside the brand, the Nordic Spirit frosty berry listing and the Pablo blueberry and peach can are the berry-over-cold options in the pack we work from. The Cuba range is worth a look for the same reason — it leans darker than most of our shelves.

If instead you want two cold cans that are not identical, the honest position is the one set out earlier: our tags cannot tell you how the brand's spearmint can differs from this one, only that it does stop at 11mg where this reaches 14mg. Outside the brand, the SYX cool mint listing, White Fox's double mint can and Klint's arctic mint pack are the three nearest cold cans in our pack, and our mint shelf holds 148 listings if none of those appeals.

Keeping the pack in decent condition

Pouches in this category come dry or moist depending on the brand, and neither type improves with time or heat. The practical rules are the same for both. Keep cans out of direct sun and away from anything that gets warm — a dashboard in summer, a radiator shelf, a windowsill, the top of an appliance. A car glovebox in August is the single most common way a can is ruined, and heat does its work quietly: the flavour thins and the contents dry out or go tacky without anything looking obviously wrong from outside.

Keep the lid fully closed between uses, and mean fully — a lid sitting proud because the used-pouch compartment is overloaded is an open can. Store the unopened cans of a five-pack in their sleeve, in a cupboard or drawer, and open one at a time. A cupboard is the right place for a second reason: five cans of an adult nicotine product should not be left where anyone else in a household can pick them up.

Some people keep moist cans in a fridge. That is a genuine practice and it is not something we will either endorse or wave away, because we do not hold this brand's own storage guidance and inventing it would be exactly the kind of invention this page has been avoiding throughout. Read the printed labelling on the tin, follow it, and if it says nothing about refrigeration then a cool dark cupboard is the uncontroversial choice.

One more small thing: cans travel badly loose in a bag with keys in it. The lids are not designed to resist a sustained grinding against metal, and a lid that has been worked half-open in a rucksack is a can that has been open all day.

Choosing between the three figures and the pack size

There is only one pack size on this listing — five cans at £19.95 — so the only decision the page presents is which of the three declared figures to order. We have said we cannot advise on that and we are not going to soften it. What we can set out is the shape of the choice.

• 6mg is the lowest figure on this listing, and the lowest the brand offers on any of its mints with us. The only UBBS listing that goes lower at all is the 4mg tropical one.
• 11mg is the middle figure here, and it is the figure that appears on every UBBS mint we carry, which makes it the brand's common ground.
• 14mg is the top of this listing and is unique to it among the brand's mints. The brand's peppermint reaches 20mg instead; nothing else in the range stops at fourteen.
• All three cost the same, so there is no price consequence to the decision either way.

If you are looking at this listing beside others and want to see how a declared figure translates across brands, the shelves are the quickest tool: the medium shelf this can is filed on for like-for-like browsing, and the stronger shelves above it if you want to see what higher declared figures look like across the catalogue. Bear in mind our shelf boundaries are our own filing decision and a can near a boundary could arguably sit either side of it.

Ordering, delivery and the age check

Ordering is the ordinary sequence: choose the declared figure you want, add the pack, check out. The £19.95 is the pack price for five cans and does not change between the three variants, so the only thing your selection changes is which figure is printed on the lids that arrive.

This is an age-restricted product and the checks are real. You must be 18 or over to buy it. We verify age as part of the order process, and ID may be requested on delivery — a courier can refuse to hand a parcel over to anyone who cannot produce it, and to anyone who is not the person the order was placed by where that is what the delivery terms require. Please do not ask a driver to leave an age-restricted parcel with a neighbour or in a porch; that is not a request they can grant.

Buying five cans and passing them around is not something this page is going to help with either. An adult who already uses nicotine buying for themselves is the whole of who this product is sold to, and supplying it onward to anyone under 18 is an offence rather than a favour.

Finding your way around from here

This page sits at three intersections in the catalogue, and those three filings are the fastest way to see what else is relevant. It is on the mint flavour shelf, which is our largest single flavour grouping at 148 listings. It is on the medium-strength shelf with its 135 listings. And it is on the UBBS page with the brand's other eleven listings.

Above all of those, the full catalogue page holds everything we stock in one place, which is the right starting point when you do not yet know what you are narrowing towards. Filter down from there rather than guessing at a URL. If you want to browse by brand rather than by flavour, the Pablo shelf and the Cuba shelf are the two largest brand groupings we hold after the house favourites, and both are wide enough to spend a while in.

One habit worth adopting: stock changes, and a page you bookmarked in March may be unavailable in June. The tile on a shelf page carries the same availability flag this page does, so a shelf is a more reliable place to check what can actually be ordered today than a saved product link.

Questions we actually get about this can

How many pouches are in a can?

We do not hold that figure for this listing, so we will not print one. Counts in this category commonly sit in the teens or low twenties and they vary by brand and format, but a range is not an answer and you would be planning a week around a guess. The can's printed labelling carries the count. With five cans in the pack, opening the first one settles the question for all of them.

Is £19.95 for one can or for all five?

All five. The listed price is the pack price and it covers 5 cans, which is £3.99 per can. This matters most when you are comparing this page against a listing priced at four or five pounds — those are very likely single tins, so the two numbers are not measuring the same thing. Our pack does not give us other listings' can counts, so check each listing's own page before drawing a value conclusion.

Does the 14mg cost more than the 6mg?

No. All three declared figures on this listing are £19.95 for five cans. The number on the lid has no effect on the price, which also means there is no commercial nudge built into the page in either direction. Pick on your own basis; the till is indifferent.

Which strength should I get?

We cannot tell you. That is not evasiveness for form's sake — a shop is not in a position to advise anyone on which declared nicotine figure suits them, and any page that offers to is overstepping. The figures on offer are 6mg, 11mg and 14mg, all at the same price, and the label is the authority on what each means. If the question matters to your circumstances, ask someone qualified to answer it.

How is the menthol different from your peppermint and spearmint cans?

On our data, it is not distinguishable. All three UBBS mints carry the identical single flavour tag mint, with no tasting note or intensity figure behind it, so the only differences we can state are the name on the lid and the strength ladder: this one runs 6, 11 and 14mg, the peppermint listing runs 6, 11 and 20mg, and the spearmint stops at 11mg. As flavour words they conventionally differ — peppermint sharper, spearmint sweeter and herbier — but we are not going to present that as a claim about these three cans.

Why is it 11mg rather than a round 10 or 12?

Because that is what the brand declares. We do not know the reasoning and we are not going to construct one. Several brands in this catalogue use unrounded figures and it is simply how their ranges are set out. We print the figure as given; the lid is authoritative.

Where is this made, and who makes it?

We do not hold a manufacturer or a country for this listing, so we cannot tell you. Our record carries the brand name, the price, the declared strengths, the pack size, one flavour tag and a stock flag — and that is genuinely all of it. Anything else you have read about this product's origin did not come from us. The packaging itself will carry whatever the producer is required to state.

Are all the cans you have linked from this page available?

The ones linked above are shown as available in the pack we work from, which is why the out-of-stock warnings on this page are about the brand's salted caramel listing rather than anything linked in the comparison sections. Availability moves, though, and it moves faster than a description gets rewritten. The tile on any shelf page carries the live flag, so treat the shelf as the current answer and this paragraph as a snapshot.

Are these the slim pouches or the wider ones?

Our record does not say, and format is one of the fields we simply do not hold. It is a fair question, because the two shapes sit quite differently for some people, and it is frustrating to have it answered with a shrug. The tin will tell you. If shape matters a great deal to you, ordering one pack to find out is a more reliable method than any shop page's description.

Can I use these at work, on a train or on a flight?

That is for your employer, the operator and the airline to state, not for us. Rules on products of this kind vary between organisations and between countries, and the fact that the format is unobtrusive is not the same thing as permission. Check the policy that applies where you are. We do not publish guidance on other people's rules because we would get it wrong.

What do I do with a used one?

Household waste, in a closed bin. Not down a sink, not flushed, not on the ground, and not left on a surface where a child or a pet could get to it. The compartment under the lid is a temporary holder for a few until you reach a bin, not a storage solution — empty it daily and the can stays pleasant to open.

Can I buy a single can rather than five?

Not on this listing. Five cans at £19.95 is the only arrangement our record holds for it. Some other listings on the site are single tins — the Velo spearmint can at £4.19 and the Nordic Spirit frosty berry at £4.49 are the sort of price that suggests a single tin rather than a pack, though you should read their own pages to confirm it. If you want to try a flavour without committing to five cans, that is the aisle to look down.

Do you have a guide for someone who already uses these and wants to browse properly?

The shelves are the guide. The mint grouping collects every cold listing we hold, the strength shelves collect by declared figure, and the complete stock list is there when you would rather see everything at once. Between the three of those you can narrow the catalogue down to a handful of candidates in about a minute, which is quicker than reading five product pages.

The legal part, in plain words

This product is for adults aged 18 or over who already use nicotine. We sell it to no one else. Age is verified at the point of order, and ID may be requested on delivery.

Nicotine is an addictive substance. That is the plainest and most important sentence on this page, and it applies to every declared figure on this listing equally, the 6mg as much as the 14mg.

UBBS Menthol is not a licensed stop-smoking medicine and we make no medical, therapeutic or cessation claim for it whatsoever. It is not intended for non-smokers, for anyone who does not already use nicotine, for anyone under 18, or for anyone who is pregnant or breastfeeding. Nothing on this page is medical advice, and nothing on it should be read as encouragement to anyone to begin using nicotine — if you do not use it, this product is not for you and this page is not addressed to you.

Keep cans out of reach of children and of animals, used pouches included. Do not pass this product on to anyone under 18. The manufacturer's printed labelling on the can governs anything about the product itself that our record does not carry, and there is a fair amount our record does not carry.

In short

A five-can pack at £19.95, which is £3.99 a can, in three declared figures — 6mg, 11mg and 14mg — all at the same price, filed on our medium shelf and tagged simply mint. Available now. What we hold about it we have printed; what we do not hold we have said we do not hold, including the pouch count, the format and any tasting detail that would let us tell this can apart from the brand's peppermint or its spearmint on anything other than the name and the numbers.

If that is the can you came for, it is in stock and the page is done. If it is not, the rest of the UBBS shelf is eleven listings deep at the same price, and the wider catalogue is a click away.