ZYN Guava Spice X Nicotine Pouches

The can itself: ZYN Guava Spice X

The maths on the price is simple enough to do out loud: £19.99 across five cans works out at almost exactly £4.00 a can. Whether that is good value against the rest of what we carry depends entirely on how you count, because the catalogue is full of products priced per can, per five-can pack and per ten-can carton all at once, and a £4.19 line and a £39.90 line can turn out to cost much the same per can. We have tried to be consistent in saying which is which throughout this page, and where a comparison is genuinely not like-for-like we say so instead of smoothing it over.

Within our own filing, this can sits on the Medium Strength shelf, on the full ZYN shelf, and on the mint flavour shelf. That last one needs explaining rather than glossing over, and it gets a section of its own below, because a can called Guava Spice filed under mint is the sort of thing that looks like a mistake until somebody tells you what the filing actually means.

What "Guava Spice" names, and what our own tag says instead

Start with the plain reading. Guava is a fruit note: sweet, slightly floral, more rounded and less sharp than citrus, with a soft edge that fruit-sweet flavours in this category tend to be built around. Spice, in a flavour name, points at the warm aromatic end of the spectrum — the direction a spiced drink goes rather than the direction a chilli goes. Nothing in the word is a promise about heat, and nothing in it is a promise about anything the can does to a person. It is a taste description and it should be read as one.

That is worth saying flatly because flavour words in this category are frequently written as though they were describing an event. "Spice" here is not a claim about a physical effect, and we are not going to imply that it is. It tells you which direction the flavour leans: warm, aromatic, a little sweet, sitting somewhere near the fruit end rather than the herbal end. If you already know the difference between a can that reads as fruit-sweet and a can that reads as sharp and green, that is the axis the name is placing itself on.

Now the awkward part. The flavour tag on our own record for this product is mint. The name on the can is Guava Spice. Those do not agree, and we are not going to pretend they do. Our tags are our own catalogue filing, applied across nearly four hundred products so that shelves stay browsable, and on this record the tag says mint while the name says guava and spice. We have not silently rewritten the tag to match the name, and we have not rewritten this description to match the tag. What we can tell you honestly is this: the manufacturer's name for the can is Guava Spice, our filing puts it on the mint shelf, and if the two matter to you, go by the name on the lid, because that is the product you are buying.

We do not hold tasting notes from the manufacturer for this can, and we do not write invented ones. Plenty of pages in this category describe a flavour in three paragraphs of adjectives that nobody could check. We would rather give you the name, the honest disagreement in our own data, and the comparisons below, and let you decide whether guava and spice is a direction you want. If it is not, the ZYN shelf has other directions on it and they are listed further down this page.

One more thing about the word aroma, since it comes up. A closed can smells of very little until it is opened. Once it is, what you get is the flavour of the can in a concentrated form, and for a fruit-and-spice name that means a sweet, warm aromatic note rather than a sharp herbal one. That is the whole of what we will say about it, because anything more specific would be us inventing detail we do not have.

The format in practice: the pouch, the can, the lid

This section is the one worth reading if the format itself is new to you rather than the flavour. A nicotine pouch is a small sealed sachet of material that sits between the lip and the teeth, usually the upper lip, and stays there. It is not chewed. It is not swallowed. It is not lit, heated or connected to anything. There is no device, no charging, no refilling and no spare parts. The whole of the product is what is inside the can.

On portion size, we have to be honest about the limits of what we know. We do not publish pouch dimensions for this product, we do not hold the weight of an individual pouch, and we are not going to estimate either from the look of a photograph. ZYN produces cans described as slim and cans described as mini across its range, and where a product name carries the word Mini — as ZYN Coffee Mini does, at £19.99 for its pack — that word is part of the manufacturer's naming and tells you the format is the smaller one. This can does not carry Mini in its name. Beyond that, the physical detail we hold is the can itself, not the pouch inside it, and the accurate thing to say is that we do not have the figure.

How a pouch sits is easier to describe, because it is the same across the category. It goes under the lip, off to one side, and stays there without being held. Most people find it settles within the first few moments and then stops registering as an object. It is discreet in the literal sense: from the outside there is nothing to see unless somebody is looking closely, and there is nothing to hear, nothing to hold and nothing to put down. That is a description of the format, not an argument for it.

On how long people keep one in — this is the question we are asked most and the one where the temptation to invent a number is strongest. We do not hold a figure for this product. We cannot tell you how long you should keep one in, and it would be wrong of us to try, because that would be advice about use and we do not give it. What we can say is that the manufacturer prints its own guidance on the packaging, that the can in your hand is the authority on that rather than a web page, and that the honest answer to "how long" is that it varies between people and we do not publish a number.

The can itself is the standard round format the category has settled on, with a lid that turns to open. The lid on cans of this type is a catch lid: the top compartment is there to hold used pouches, so that a can in a coat pocket does not require finding a bin immediately. That is a piece of packaging design worth knowing about because it changes how the product behaves away from home. It is not a claim about the product. It is a description of a lid.

On disposal, the plain version: a used pouch goes in general waste, in the catch lid until you get to one, and not down a sink or a drain. An empty can goes in whatever your local authority accepts for that kind of plastic, which varies enough across the UK that we are not going to tell you what your council does. Neither pouches nor cans belong on the ground, and that is as far as we will take the subject.

Three practical notes about the format that people find out the hard way. First, a can that has been opened and left loosely closed for a long stretch will not be in the same condition as one that has been kept shut — see the storage section below. Second, the five cans in this pack are all the same strength and the same flavour, so there is nothing to sort through when you open the outer pack. Third, if you are carrying one, the catch lid is only useful if you actually turn the can the right way up when you put it away, which sounds obvious until it has gone wrong once.

Reading 11mg as a number on a can

The figure on this product is 11mg. That is the manufacturer's stated nicotine content per pouch, and it is the only number we publish about strength, because it is the only one we have. It is not a dose we are suggesting, it is not a recommendation, and it is not a statement about what suits anybody. We cannot advise which strength is right for any individual person, and we will not try. That is not us being cautious for the sake of it — it is genuinely outside what a shop can responsibly tell you.

What the number does let you do is compare. If you already know what a figure feels like on a can you have used, you can look at 11mg and place it. If you do not, nothing on this page will give you that, because the comparison only works against your own experience and we do not have access to that.

Now the naming, which is where this product needs care. The listing name is Guava Spice X, and the URL for this page carries the phrase "x-strong". Those are manufacturer naming conventions and our own slug respectively. "X" is not a rung on a ladder we are inviting you to climb, it is not a tier, it is not an achievement, and it does not mean better, stronger-therefore-superior or more advanced. Brands across this category use letters, roman numerals, words like Slim and Bold, and colour coding, and they do not use them consistently with one another. The only figure that can be compared across brands is the milligram number.

And on this can, our own milligram-based filing disagrees with the naming. An "X" in the name reads to most people as a high number. The figure is 11mg, and 11mg puts this can on our Medium Strength shelf — a shelf of 135 products at the time of writing — not on the Strong shelf and not on the Extra Strong shelf. We file by the number because the number is the only consistent thing. So if you came to this page expecting the letter to mean one thing and found it filed somewhere else, that is not a filing error. The letter is the brand's word and the shelf is our arithmetic, and where they disagree, we would rather show you both than quietly pick one.

The same logic applies to ZYN Cool Mint X, which carries the same X in its name and the same £19.99 price across its pack, and which is in stock. If you are comparing the two, compare their milligram figures on their own listings rather than assuming the shared letter makes them identical.

The same figure, different cans: what else sits at this end of the shelf

This is where a shop page can actually be useful, so it gets room. Our medium strength shelf holds 135 products, which means that choosing by number alone narrows almost nothing down. What separates cans at a similar figure is flavour direction, format, brand and — very much — how they are packaged and priced. Here is how this can sits against a spread of what we stock, using only what is on our own records.

On price structure first, because it catches people out. This can is £19.99 for five cans. Nordic Spirit Frosty Berry is listed at £4.49 and Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19 — both in stock, and both single-can prices, which is why they look so much cheaper at a glance. Five cans of either would land near or above this pack. At the other end, 77 Apple Mint at £39.90 and Pablo Silver Edition Blueberry Peach Ice at £39.90 are multi-can lines whose headline figure looks steep until you divide it. Read the pack size on every listing before you compare, including this one.

On flavour direction, the comparison is more useful than the price one. If the fruit-sweet side of this can is what interests you, the Pablo blueberry and peach line sits in similar territory on the fruit axis, and the Nordic Spirit berry can is a berry rather than a tropical note. If it is the spice half of the name that caught your eye, Fumi Dark Spice at £27.90 is the closest thing on our shelves by name — in stock, a different brand, a different pack structure, and a darker reading of the word spice than a fruit-led can gives it.

If the mint tag on our record is what brought you here rather than the guava, then the honest signposting is to the cans that genuinely are mint by name. Edge Spearmint at £14.95 and SYX Cool Mint at £29.90 are both in stock and both plainly named. Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90 and White Fox Double Mint at £34.90 are the larger multi-can options on that side of the shelf, and both are available. Any of those will give you mint without the guava, which this can, whatever our tag says, does not claim to do.

And for something entirely off this axis: UBBS Cola Ice at £19.95 is a cola-flavoured can at almost exactly this pack's price, and the 77 apple and mint can puts a fruit note and a mint note together in one product, which is arguably the thing this can's name and our tag are arguing about. All of those are in stock.

What none of this tells you is which one you will prefer. Flavour is not rankable and we are not going to rank it. The purpose of the comparison is to show you what the shelf holds near this can so that you are choosing from a real range rather than from one listing. If you would rather see the whole thing yourself, everything we stock is browsable in one place, and the medium strength filing narrows it to the 135 that share this can's bracket.

Where this sits in the ZYN range we carry

We stock 22 ZYN products, and they are all on the ZYN shelf together. The range spreads across fruit, mint, citrus and darker flavour names, and the pricing is notably consistent: a great many of the ZYN lines we carry, including this one, are listed at £19.99.

On the fruit side, ZYN Black Cherry at £19.99 is a single dark fruit note, and ZYN Blackcurrant Forest at the same £19.99 is a berry reading of the same idea. Both are in stock. If it is the tropical, rounder sweetness suggested by guava that you are after, those two are the nearest ZYN neighbours in kind, though neither is tropical and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Where fruit and mint meet, ZYN Blueberry Mint at £19.99 is the explicit version: the name carries both halves, so there is no ambiguity of the sort this can's tag creates. It is in stock. ZYN Citrus, also £19.99 and in stock, goes the sharper, brighter way instead — the opposite end of the fruit axis from a soft tropical note.

Two more worth knowing about. The ZYN Cool Mint X can shares the X in its name with this one and is priced the same at £19.99; it is the straight mint line in this part of the range. And ZYN Coffee Mini, again £19.99 and in stock, is the one clear format difference in the group — the name carries Mini, which is the manufacturer telling you the format is the smaller one, and coffee is a flavour direction nothing else here goes near.

That is six ZYN products against this one, all currently available. The remaining lines on the brand's shelf here are best browsed directly, because stock on individual flavours moves and a page written today is a poor guide to what is on the shelf next month.

Keeping more than one can on the go

A lot of people who buy in five-can packs do not run one flavour to the end before opening the next; they keep two or three different cans and move between them. Palate fatigue is a real and ordinary thing with any strongly flavoured product, and a second can in a different direction is the usual answer. Since this pack gives you five of one thing, the variety, if you want it, has to come from somewhere else in the basket.

The cheapest way to add a different flavour without committing to another multi-can pack is a single can. The Velo spearmint can at £4.19 and Nordic Spirit's frosty berry line at £4.49 are the two lowest-priced lines in the comparison set on this page, both in stock, and both give you a completely different flavour direction for roughly the price of one can out of this pack.

If you want the contrast to be larger than mint-versus-fruit, the UBBS cola can at £19.95 is about as far from a guava and spice reading as our shelves go while staying sweet, and the Fumi dark spice line at £27.90 takes the other half of this can's name somewhere considerably less fruity. Both are available now.

For a straight mint counterweight — the flavour most people keep alongside a fruit can — the Edge spearmint line at £14.95 and the SYX cool mint can at £29.90 are both in stock, as are the two larger multi-can mint options, White Fox's double mint at £34.90 and the Klint arctic mint pack at £36.90. And if you want to browse by brand rather than by can, the Pablo range and the Cuba range are two of the larger brand shelves we keep.

Storage, and keeping a can in decent condition

Nothing exotic here, and no claims about shelf life we cannot support, because we do not publish a best-before figure for this product — the can carries its own date and that is the one to go by.

Keep cans closed. The lid turns shut properly and a can left ajar in a bag will dry out faster than one that was closed after each use. Keep them somewhere cool rather than somewhere warm: a car dashboard in July, a windowsill in direct sun and a spot next to a radiator are the three places that do most of the damage people report. Cool and dark is the whole of the instruction.

Do not refrigerate or freeze cans as a matter of course. Some people do it anyway and report no problems, but it is not something the packaging asks for and it is not something we are going to tell you to do. Room temperature, out of the sun, lid on, is entirely sufficient.

Keep them out of reach of children and anyone who should not have them. That is not a decorative line at the end of a storage paragraph; a five-can pack sitting in a kitchen drawer is a different proposition from one can in a coat pocket, and a high shelf or a locked drawer is the sensible place for the four you have not opened yet.

Buying five cans at once means most of them will sit unopened for a while, which is an argument for putting the unopened ones somewhere stable rather than leaving them loose in a bag with the one in use. If you are the sort of person who keeps a can in a coat, expect that one to have had a harder life than the ones in the cupboard.

Choosing between what we list for this product

The choice here is unusually small, and it is worth being clear about that. This listing has one strength — 11mg — and one variant at one price, £19.99, for five cans. There is no other strength of this exact flavour on our shelves, and no other pack size of it. So the real decision is not which version of this can to buy; it is whether this can is the one you want at all.

If the answer is that you want the flavour but a different figure, we cannot offer you that in this product, and we cannot tell you which figure to look for instead. What we can do is point you at the shelves where the numbers are filed: medium strength for the bracket this can sits in, and strong and extra strong for the brackets above it in our own filing. Which of those is appropriate for you is not a question we are able to answer, and anyone who answers it confidently on a shop page is guessing.

If the answer is that you want the number but a different flavour, that is the easier direction, because 11mg territory is well populated — 135 products on that shelf — and the comparison section above lists a dozen of them by name with prices and stock status.

On pack size, the honest summary of our catalogue is that it is inconsistent by nature. Some brands we carry sell by the single can, some by the five, some by the ten. This is a five. Comparing a five-can pack to a single can on headline price tells you nothing useful, and comparing it to a ten-can carton tells you nothing useful either unless you divide first. We have given per-can context where it helps throughout this page for exactly that reason.

Buying, delivery and the age check

This is an age-restricted product and we sell it only to adults aged 18 or over. Age verification is part of the order process, and ID may be requested on delivery. If the person at the door cannot produce it, the courier can decline to hand the parcel over, and that is not a discretionary matter we can override from our end. It is worth knowing before you choose a delivery address — an order going to a workplace reception or a neighbour is an order that may not get handed across.

The listing price of £19.99 is for the five-can pack as described. Delivery, order tracking and returns are handled under the terms shown at checkout rather than restated here, because those terms change and a product page is the wrong place to keep a copy that can go stale.

Stock is the other moving part. This can was in stock when this page was written. Everything we have linked above was likewise recorded as available, but availability across nearly four hundred products moves week to week, and the product page itself is always the current answer. If a link here takes you to something that is no longer available, the page will say so, and the full shop listing is the place to find what is in.

Finding your way around from here

Three shelves hold this can, and they are the three obvious next steps. The ZYN brand shelf collects all 22 products from this brand. The medium strength shelf collects the 135 products that share this can's milligram bracket in our filing. The mint flavour shelf, 148 products deep, is where our own tag files this can — with the caveat, repeated once more because it matters, that the name on this can says guava and spice.

Beyond those, the strength shelves run upward through strong and extra strong as a matter of filing rather than as a route anybody should follow, and the brand shelves include Pablo and Cuba, two of the ranges we carry most of. If none of that is what you want, the complete catalogue is one click away and is the only genuinely complete view of what we hold.

Questions we actually get asked about this can

Why is a can called Guava Spice filed under mint?

Because our catalogue tag and the manufacturer's name disagree on this record, and we have chosen to show you that rather than quietly change one of them. The tag in our data says mint; the name on the can says Guava Spice. We do not know which is the error, and we are not going to guess. Go by the name on the lid, since that is the physical product arriving. If you specifically want a mint can, the ZYN Cool Mint X line and the other plainly named mint products listed above are unambiguous.

What does the "X" in the name mean?

It is part of the manufacturer's naming for the product and nothing more. It is not a grade, a rank or a level, and it does not appear on a scale that runs across different brands. The only figure that compares consistently between products is the milligram number, which for this can is 11mg. Our own filing, which goes by that number, places this can on the medium strength shelf despite the letter in the name, and we would rather flag that disagreement than hide it.

How long should I keep a pouch in?

We do not hold that figure for this product and we cannot advise you on it. The manufacturer prints its own guidance on the packaging, and the can in your hand is a better authority than any web page. It also varies between people, which is exactly why a single number on a shop listing would be misleading. If you want specifics, read the can.

Is 11mg a lot?

Compared with what? Against our own shelves, 11mg falls in the bracket we file as medium, with shelves above it labelled strong and extra strong. Against your own experience of another can, only you can make that comparison. We cannot tell you whether this figure suits you — that is a judgement about a person, not about a product, and a shop is not in a position to make it.

How many cans do I get for £19.99?

Five. The £19.99 is the price of the whole five-can pack, not of a single can, which works out at almost exactly £4.00 each. This matters when comparing against other listings on this site, because some of them are priced per can — the £4.19 and £4.49 lines mentioned above are single cans — and some are ten-can cartons priced near £40. Always check the pack size on the listing before comparing the headline figures.

Is there a stronger or weaker version of this flavour?

Not on our shelves. This listing carries one strength, 11mg, and one pack, and there is no second variant of Guava Spice X in our catalogue. If you want a different figure you would be moving to a different flavour as well. We cannot suggest which figure to move to.

What is the lid compartment for?

Used pouches. Cans of this type have a catch lid so that a used pouch has somewhere to go when a bin is not immediately available. Empty it into general waste when you get the chance. It is a packaging feature, not a product feature, and it works exactly as well as you remember to use it.

Do I need anything else to use these?

No. There is no device, no battery, no charger, no refill and no accessory of any kind. The can contains the entire product. That is the plainest description of the format we can give.

Where are these made?

We do not hold country-of-origin information for this product and we are not going to invent it. If it matters to you, the packaging itself carries the manufacturer's own information and is the right place to look. We only publish facts we have on our own records, and this is not one of them.

Are there tasting notes from the manufacturer?

Not on our records, no. What we hold is the product name, the strength, the price, the pack size and our own flavour tag — which, on this record, disagrees with the name. Everything we have said about the flavour on this page is a reading of the name itself, and we have flagged it as such rather than dressing it up as an official description.

Can I mix this with other flavours in one order?

Yes. Nothing stops you putting several different cans in one basket, and the section above on keeping more than one can on the go lists a range of alternatives at different prices and pack sizes, including single cans at £4.19 and £4.49 if you want variety without another five-pack.

What happens if nobody is in when it is delivered?

That is handled by the courier terms shown at checkout rather than here, but the age check is the part worth planning around: ID may be requested on delivery, and a parcel that cannot be age-verified at the door may not be left. Choosing an address where an adult can receive it is the practical answer.

The legal and safety information for this product

This product is sold only to adults aged 18 or over who already use nicotine. We do not sell it to anyone under that age and we do not offer it to anyone who does not already use nicotine.

Nicotine is an addictive substance.

This product is not a licensed stop-smoking medicine and is not offered, described or intended as one. It is not intended for non-smokers, for non-nicotine-users, for anyone under the age of 18, or for anyone who is pregnant or breastfeeding. We make no health or medical claim about this product in any direction, and nothing on this page should be read as one.

Age verification forms part of the order process and ID may be requested on delivery. Keep this product out of the reach and sight of children. If you have any concerns about your own nicotine use, that is a conversation for a healthcare professional and not for a shop listing.

In short

ZYN Guava Spice X is a five-can pack at £19.99, one strength at 11mg, currently in stock, with a fruit-and-spice name on the lid and a mint tag in our own filing that does not match it — a disagreement we have left visible rather than tidied away. The letter in the name is the brand's own convention and our milligram-based filing puts the can on the medium strength shelf regardless of it. Which strength suits you is not something we can tell you.

If this can is not the one, the comparisons above name a dozen alternatives with their prices, pack sizes and current availability, and the full catalogue holds the rest.