ZYN Icy Blackcurrant XX Nicotine Pouches

Availability first: this can is not currently in stock

We do not publish restock dates. We do not have reliable ones, and a guessed date on a product page is worse than no date, because somebody plans around it. The listing itself is the live answer: when it changes, the page changes.

The facts we hold on this listing

The product is ZYN Icy Blackcurrant XX, listed in full as ZYN Icy Blackcurrant XX Nicotine Pouches, from ZYN. The price is £19.99. There is one strength on the record, 12.5mg, and one variant at that strength and that price — no second option, no alternative size on this listing. We hold one photograph, showing the closed can.

There is one gap in that set worth stating openly rather than leaving you to work out from the price. We do not hold a pack size for this product. Our record has the field empty, which means we cannot tell you whether £19.99 buys one can, five cans or a carton. A shop that guessed at that would be making up the single most important number for judging the price, and we are not going to do it. If pack size is the deciding factor for you, that is a question for us directly rather than one this page can answer, and it is worth resolving before the can returns to stock.

That gap also means the price comparisons on this page have to be handled carefully. Elsewhere in our catalogue we can say a £39.90 line works out at a certain figure per can, because we hold the count. Here we cannot. Every time this page sets £19.99 against another product's price below, read it as a headline comparison only, not a per-can one.

What 12.5mg tells you, and the four things it does not

The figure on this can is 12.5mg. That is the manufacturer's stated nicotine content per pouch, taken from our record, and it is the whole of what we publish on strength. It is a measurement, not a recommendation, and this section is about being precise on the difference — because the milligram figure carries a lot of weight in how people choose, and most of that weight is misplaced.

Start with what the number is good for. It is the one quantity that means the same thing on every can in this catalogue regardless of who made it. If you hold up a 12.5mg can from one brand and a 12.5mg can from another, that figure is measuring the same thing in both. Nothing else on a can has that property. That is genuinely useful, and it is why our shelves are filed by it.

Now the first thing it does not tell you: it does not tell you what suits you. We cannot advise which strength is right for any individual, and we are not going to imply an answer by the way we order a page. That is a judgement about a person, and a shop selling the product is the wrong party to be making it. If you are trying to work out where you sit, your own experience of cans you have already used is the only evidence that is actually about you.

The second: it is not a ladder and there is no rung to reach. This page is not going to present strengths as a progression, because they are not one. There is no beginner's figure and no advanced figure, nothing to graduate from, nothing to work up to, and no version of this product that is a reward for having used another one. People sometimes talk about strengths that way, and it is a habit of speech rather than a description of anything real. A larger number on a can is a larger number on a can.

The third: a name is not a number. This can is called XX. That is the manufacturer's own naming convention and it means what the manufacturer intends it to mean, which is not something we can decode for you and not something that compares across brands. Letters, doubled letters, roman numerals, words like Bold and Slim, colour-coded lids — the category uses all of them and uses them inconsistently. Our own filing ignores naming entirely and goes by the milligram figure, which is why this can, despite the XX, sits on our Medium Strength shelf rather than on the Strong shelf or the Extra Strong shelf. Our arithmetic and the brand's name disagree here, openly, and we would rather you saw both than have us pick one and stay quiet.

The fourth: the figure says nothing about flavour, format or how long a can lasts. Two cans at 12.5mg can be completely different products in every respect that you would actually notice. Our medium strength filing holds 135 products, which is the clearest possible demonstration that the number narrows almost nothing down on its own.

Reading the name on the lid

Three words, and each is doing something different. Blackcurrant is the flavour: a dark berry note, sharper and more tart than a red berry like strawberry, and more defined than a general "forest fruits" blend. Of everything in our catalogue, it is the most specific fruit name we carry from this brand alongside ZYN Blackcurrant Forest, which is in stock at £19.99 and which takes the same fruit in a broader, more mixed-berry direction.

Icy is a flavour convention, and it is worth being exact about it because the word gets misread constantly. In this category "icy" describes a taste and mouthfeel direction — the cool, mint-leaning, menthol-adjacent end of a flavour, the same way a drink can be described as having a cool finish. It is a description of taste, not a claim about anything the product does to you. We are not telling you it produces a sensation, because that would be a claim about an effect and we do not make those. Read "Icy Blackcurrant" as "blackcurrant taken in the cool direction rather than the warm or syrupy one", and you have read it correctly.

XX is the naming, dealt with in the section above. It is not a flavour word, it does not modify the blackcurrant, and it is not a scale.

Beyond that we do not have manufacturer tasting notes on file for this can, so we are not going to produce three paragraphs of invented adjectives about depth and finish. The name is specific enough to be genuinely informative, which is more than many names in this category manage, and where our information stops, this page stops.

What our own flavour tags say about it

Our catalogue tags this product with two flavours: mint and berry. It therefore appears on the berry shelf, 76 products deep, and on the mint shelf, which holds 148.

The berry tag is straightforward — blackcurrant is a berry and the name says so. The mint tag is our reading of "Icy", not something the product name states. That is a defensible piece of filing, because the cool direction that "icy" indicates does sit near mint in flavour terms, but it is an interpretation and you should know it is one. If you want unambiguous mint, the name on this can does not promise it, and the plainly named mint cans listed further down this page do.

Being clear about where a tag comes from matters more than it might seem. Tags drive which shelf a product appears on, and a shopper filtering by mint who ends up on a blackcurrant can has been slightly misled unless somebody explains the reasoning. That is the explanation.

The pouch, the can and the lid, described plainly

This is the practical section for anyone less familiar with the format than with the flavour. A nicotine pouch is a small sealed sachet that sits between the lip and the teeth, generally the upper lip, and stays put. It is not chewed and it is not swallowed. Nothing is lit, nothing is heated, nothing is charged and nothing is refilled. There is no device to buy, no battery to look after, no liquid to top up and no spare parts to lose. The whole of the product is inside the can.

On portion size, our record does not carry pouch dimensions or pouch weight for this product, and we are not going to estimate them from a photograph of a closed can. ZYN produces formats the trade calls slim and formats it calls mini, and when a product carries the word Mini in its name — ZYN Coffee Mini, in stock at £19.99, is the example on our shelves — that is the manufacturer telling you the format is the smaller one. This product's name does not carry it. We will not go further than that, because further would be guessing.

How the pouch sits is consistent across the category and easy to describe. It goes under the lip, usually off to one side rather than centred, and it stays without being held in place. Most people find it settles in the first moments and then simply sits there. Nothing is visible from outside unless somebody is looking deliberately, nothing is audible, and there is nothing to hold or put down while it is in. That is a description of a format, not an argument in its favour.

On how long people keep one in, we will be as honest here as everywhere else: we do not hold a figure for this product and we cannot advise you on it. The manufacturer's own guidance is printed on the packaging, and the can is a better authority than any shop page. It also varies considerably between people, which is exactly why a single number published here would mislead somebody. We are not going to supply one.

The can is the familiar round format with a turning lid, and the lid is a catch lid — the upper compartment exists to hold used pouches until a bin is available. It is a piece of packaging design rather than a feature of the product, and it is useful precisely in the situations where a bin is not to hand. A used pouch goes in general waste. An empty can goes wherever your local authority takes that grade of plastic, which differs enough around the UK that we are not going to tell you what applies where you live. Neither belongs on the ground.

A few practical points about the format that regular users work out for themselves and newcomers to the format generally do not. The lid wants a firm turn rather than a nudge; a lid that feels closed and is not is how a can dries out in a bag. The catch compartment only does its job if the can goes back in a pocket the right way up. And a can that has been carried for weeks has had a harder life than one that has sat in a cupboard, which is worth remembering when comparing the condition of two cans of the same product.

One small practical note that follows from the missing pack-size figure: if £19.99 turns out to buy more than one can, the cans you are not using want storing properly rather than being carried around, and the storage section below covers that.

How to read one of our listings

Since this page has spent a good deal of space on what our records do and do not contain, it is worth setting out what the fields on a listing actually mean. It makes the comparisons above easier to use and it makes the gaps easier to spot on any other page you land on.

The price is the price of whatever the listing sells, which is not always one can. Some brands we carry are sold singly, some in fives, some in tens. That is why a £4.19 line and a £39.90 line can be closer in per-can terms than they look, and it is why the empty pack-size field on this particular record matters so much.

The strength is the manufacturer's stated milligram figure per pouch, reproduced exactly as we hold it. Where a product has several strengths, each appears as a separate variant with its own price. This listing has one, 12.5mg, at £19.99.

The flavour tags are ours, not the manufacturer's. They exist so that shelves can be browsed, and they are an interpretation of the product name in cases like this one, where "Icy" produced a mint tag that the name itself does not state. When our tag and the name disagree, we say so on the page rather than quietly deferring to one of them.

The strength shelf a product appears on is calculated from the milligram figure alone. Brand naming — X, XX, Bold, Slim, a coloured lid — is ignored entirely in that calculation, which is how a can called XX comes to sit on a shelf labelled medium. That is not an error in the filing; it is the filing working as intended, and it is the reason the number is the thing to compare.

The stock flag is live. On this page it currently reads out of stock, and every product linked above carries its own flag on its own page. Where we have named something here that was unavailable at the time of writing, we have said so in the sentence rather than leaving you to discover it.

ZYN's other cans on our shelves

We carry 22 products from this brand, gathered on the ZYN shelf. Pricing across the range is strikingly uniform — a great many of the lines we hold, this one included, are listed at £19.99 — so the choice between them is almost entirely a flavour and format choice rather than a price one.

Staying with dark fruit, ZYN Black Cherry at £19.99 is the nearest neighbour by kind: a single dark fruit rather than a blend, in stock now. The Blackcurrant Forest can, also £19.99 and available, shares the actual fruit with this product while reading as a broader berry mix.

If it is the cool half of "Icy Blackcurrant" that matters more to you than the fruit half, ZYN Blueberry Mint at £19.99 puts a berry and a mint together explicitly in its name — no interpretation required, unlike the tagging on this can — and is in stock. ZYN Cool Mint X, again £19.99 and available, is the straight mint line, and it carries a single X where this can carries two, which is a difference in the brand's naming and not something we can translate into a comparison for you.

For directions this can does not go in at all, ZYN Citrus at £19.99 is the bright, sharp option, and the ZYN coffee line in the mini format, same price, is the one genuine format difference in the group as well as a flavour nothing else here approaches. Both are in stock.

That is six of the brand's products against this one, all currently available while this can is not. The rest are best seen on the brand shelf itself, since individual flavours move in and out and a page written on one day is a poor record of what is in on another.

Berry cans you can actually buy today

Since this one is unavailable, the useful thing this page can do is point at the rest of the berry side of the catalogue. Our berry shelf holds 76 products, and these are the ones nearest this can in kind.

Closest by fruit: Fumi Blackcurrant at £27.90 is the other blackcurrant-named product on our shelves and is in stock. That is the same fruit from a different brand at a different price, and it is the most direct substitute we can point you at while this listing is empty.

At the cheaper end, Nordic Spirit Frosty Berry at £4.49 and Velo Strawberry Ice at £4.19 are both in stock and both carry a berry note with a cool word attached, which makes them the nearest things in structure to "Icy Blackcurrant" even though the fruits differ — strawberry being the softer, sweeter berry against blackcurrant's sharper one.

At the larger end, the 77 VB Edition arctic berry line at £39.90, XQS Blueberry Mint at £39.90 and Pablo's Silver Edition blueberry and peach can, also £39.90, are all in stock and all considerably higher headline prices. Whether they are dearer per can than this one is a question we genuinely cannot answer, because, as set out above, we do not hold the pack count for this listing. Mid-range, SYX Blueberry at £29.90 is a plain blueberry can and is available.

One more to mention with a warning attached: Rush Berry Ice Pro is priced at £19.99, the same headline figure as this can, and it is a berry line with the cool word in its name — but it is also out of stock at the time of writing, so it is a comparison rather than a substitute. There is no point sending you from one empty listing to another without saying so.

The mint side, if that is what the tag brought you here for

If you arrived from the mint shelf and a blackcurrant can was not what you were expecting, the tag explanation above covers why it is filed there. For actual mint, Edge Spearmint at £14.95 is the plainest and cheapest of the options here and is in stock, with spearmint being the softer, sweeter side of mint. Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90 is the larger, dearer option on the same side and is also available.

Between those two and the berry list above sits the XQS blueberry and mint can, which does explicitly what this product's tags imply: names a berry and a mint together. At £39.90 it is one of the higher-priced lines in this comparison, and it is in stock.

If you would rather browse than follow individual recommendations, the Pablo range and the Cuba range are two of the deeper brand shelves we keep, and the full catalogue is the only complete view of what we hold.

Keeping cans in good condition

We do not publish a shelf life or a best-before date for this product. The can carries its own date and that is the one that counts. What follows is general care rather than a claim about longevity.

Close the lid properly every time. A can left ajar in a bag dries out faster than one that has been shut, and a dried-out can is the most common avoidable complaint about any product in this category. Keep cans somewhere cool and out of direct light. The three places that do the damage are, reliably, a car dashboard in summer, a sunny windowsill and the shelf above a radiator.

Do not routinely refrigerate or freeze them. Some people do and report no trouble, but it is not asked for on the packaging and it is not something we are going to tell you to do. Room temperature, lid on, out of the sun, covers it entirely.

Keep them out of reach and out of sight of children and of anyone who should not have them. If £19.99 turns out to buy several cans — which, again, we cannot confirm from our record — then most of what you own will be sitting unopened for a while, and a high shelf or a locked drawer is the right place for those rather than a kitchen worktop.

What there is to choose on this listing

Very little, which is worth saying plainly. This product has one strength, 12.5mg, one price, £19.99, and one variant. There is no stronger or weaker version of Icy Blackcurrant XX in our catalogue and no alternative pack. The only genuine decision is whether this can is the one you want, and today that decision is theoretical because it is unavailable.

If you want this flavour at a different figure, we cannot offer it and we cannot tell you which figure to look for instead. The shelves are filed by number — medium, then strong, then extra strong — and that filing is information about where things sit, not a route for anyone to follow. Which bracket is appropriate for a given person is not something a shop can determine.

If you want this figure at a different flavour, that is far easier: 135 products share this can's bracket, and the berry and mint alternatives above are named with prices and stock status.

On comparing prices, one last time: without a pack count on this record, £19.99 cannot be turned into a per-can figure. Some of the products named on this page are single cans — the £4.19 and £4.49 lines — and some are multi-can packs at around £40. Check the pack size stated on each listing before you conclude anything about value.

Ordering, age verification and delivery

This is an age-restricted product sold only to adults aged 18 or over. Age verification forms part of the order process, and ID may be requested on delivery. A courier who cannot verify age at the door can decline to hand over the parcel, and that is not something we can wave through from our side. It is worth thinking about the delivery address before you order — a parcel going to a workplace reception or to a neighbour is a parcel that may not be handed across.

Because this listing is currently unavailable, none of that applies to this can today. It applies to everything else on this page that you can buy, and the terms for delivery, tracking and returns are the ones shown at checkout rather than a copy kept here, since a copy on a product page goes stale without anybody noticing.

Stock status across the rest of the catalogue moves week to week. Everything linked from this page was recorded as available at the time of writing except Rush Berry Ice Pro, which was not. The individual product page is always the current answer, and the shop listing is where to start if a link lands on something that has since sold out.

Where this can sits on the site

Four shelves hold this product. The ZYN shelf collects all 22 of the brand's products we carry. The medium strength shelf collects the 135 that share its milligram bracket, the XX in the name notwithstanding. The berry shelf, 76 deep, is where the blackcurrant puts it, and the mint shelf, 148 deep, is where our reading of "Icy" puts it.

The other strength shelves, strong and extra strong, exist as filing above this one, and the larger brand shelves include Cuba and Pablo. For everything at once there is the complete catalogue.

Questions people ask about this one

When will it be back in stock?

We do not know and we will not guess. Restock timing on individual flavours is not something we can forecast reliably, and publishing a date we are unsure of would be worse than saying nothing, because somebody would plan around it. The listing updates when the position changes, so the page itself is the answer. In the meantime the berry section above names several available alternatives, including the other blackcurrant can we stock.

How many cans is £19.99?

We do not hold that figure for this product — the pack-size field on our record is empty. We are not going to guess, because it is the one number that determines whether the price is good or poor value, and a wrong guess would be actively misleading. Ask us directly if it is the deciding factor for you. It also means we cannot give you a per-can comparison against any other product on this page.

What does XX mean?

It is the manufacturer's own naming for this product. It is not a rating, not a rank and not a scale, and it does not compare across brands — a doubled letter from one company and a doubled letter from another are not measuring the same thing. The figure that does compare is the milligram number, 12.5mg here. Our filing goes by that, which is why this can sits on the medium strength shelf despite the name.

Does "Icy" mean it is a mint flavour?

Not exactly. "Icy" describes the flavour direction — the cool, mint-adjacent end of a taste rather than the warm or syrupy end. It is a taste description and not a claim about a physical effect. Our catalogue does tag this can as mint as well as berry on the strength of that word, which is our interpretation rather than something the name states. If you want unambiguous mint, the plainly named mint cans listed above are the safer choice.

Is 12.5mg strong?

That depends on a comparison only you can make. Within our own filing it falls in the bracket we label medium, with shelves labelled strong and extra strong above it. Whether that figure suits you is not something we are able to tell you, and it would be wrong of us to try. If you have used other cans, their figures are the only meaningful reference point, because they are the only evidence that is actually about you.

Is this the same as ZYN Blackcurrant Forest?

No, they are separate products on separate listings. They share a fruit — blackcurrant — but the Forest can reads as a broader berry blend and does not carry the "Icy" word, and it is in stock at £19.99 while this one is not. If the blackcurrant is what you are after and you want it today, that is the obvious place to look on this brand's shelf.

Do I need a device or anything else?

No. There is nothing to charge, nothing to refill, no battery, no accessory and no spare parts. The can holds the entire product. That is the plainest description of the format we can give, and it is the same for every product linked from this page.

What is the compartment in the lid for?

Used pouches. The lid on cans of this type is a catch lid, so a used pouch has somewhere to go when a bin is not immediately to hand. Empty it into general waste when you next pass one. It is a packaging feature rather than a product feature, and it is only as useful as your habit of actually using it.

Where is it made?

We do not hold country-of-origin information for this product and we are not going to invent it. The packaging carries the manufacturer's own information and is the right place to check. We publish what is on our records and nothing else, and origin is not on ours.

Are there official tasting notes?

Not on our records. What we hold is the name, the strength, the price and our own two flavour tags. Everything said about flavour on this page is a reading of the words on the lid, flagged as such rather than presented as a manufacturer's description. We would rather give you a short honest account than a long invented one.

Why is the page still here if I cannot buy it?

Because the product is real and people look for it by name, and because a page that explains what a can is and points at available alternatives is more use than a removed listing or an error. Pulling the page would also lose the record for anyone checking a can they already own. The out-of-stock position is stated at the top rather than buried, which is the part that matters.

Is the XX version stronger than the X version?

We are not able to translate one brand's naming into a comparison for you, and we are not going to imply an answer. What we can do is give you the milligram figures, which are on each listing and are the only thing that compares consistently. This can is 12.5mg. Look up the figure on the other listing and compare those two numbers rather than counting letters — and remember that neither figure tells you what suits you.

Can I be notified when it returns?

That is handled through the site's own account and notification functions rather than from this description, and the product page is where any such option would appear. What we can say here is that the listing is the live record of availability, and it is the thing to check rather than this paragraph.

Legal and safety information

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

Nicotine is an addictive substance.

It is not a licensed stop-smoking medicine, and it 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 above should be read as one.

Age verification is part of the order process and ID may be requested on delivery. Keep the product out of the reach and sight of children. Any concern about your own nicotine use is a matter for a healthcare professional rather than for a shop listing.

To summarise

ZYN Icy Blackcurrant XX is listed at £19.99 with a single strength of 12.5mg, a blackcurrant flavour taken in the cool direction, and a pack size our records do not hold. The XX is the brand's naming and our own milligram filing puts the can on the medium strength shelf regardless of it. Which strength suits any individual is not something we can advise on.

It is out of stock as this is written, so the practical use of this page is the comparison: the other blackcurrant can we stock is available at £27.90, and the wider berry shelf holds 76 products to look through while this one is away.