ZYN Menthol Ice Nicotine Pouches

ZYN Menthol Ice: in stock, and what the £19.99 buys

In our filing it sits on the Medium Strength shelf, which holds 135 products in the same milligram bracket, on the ZYN shelf alongside the other 21 lines we carry from this brand, and on the mint shelf, which at 148 products is the largest flavour category we run. Being on the largest flavour shelf in the shop means the comparison section on this page has plenty to work with, which is not true of every listing here.

Five cans of one flavour at one strength is the whole of what arrives. There is nothing to sort through when the outer pack comes open, and no chance of reaching for a can that turns out to be something else. If you want variety, it has to come from a second line in the basket, and there is a section below devoted entirely to what that might be.

Reading "Menthol Ice" as a flavour name

Two words, both doing work, and between them they make this one of the more specific names on our mint shelf.

Menthol names a character rather than a plant. In flavour terms it describes the sharp, clean, aromatic note that sits at the crispest end of the mint family — less sweet than spearmint, more austere than a confectionery mint, and more precisely defined than the general word "mint" on its own. That is a description of how a flavour tastes and smells. It is not a claim about anything the product does to a person, and nothing on this page makes a claim of that kind.

Ice is the direction word, and it belongs to the same family of flavour conventions as icy, arctic, frosty and cool. It signals that the flavour is built around the cold, clean reading of its ingredient rather than a warm or syrupy one. Again: a taste description, not an effect. A can does not become cold because there is a cold word on the lid, and we are not suggesting otherwise.

Put together, the name is unusually informative by the standards of this shelf. Most mint-named cans give you the family and a direction — cool mint, double mint, arctic mint. This one gives you a specific character within the family plus a direction. That is genuinely more information than most, and it is why this page can say a little more about flavour than several of its neighbours can.

What we do not hold is manufacturer tasting notes. Our record carries the name, the strength, the price, the pack size and a single flavour tag — mint — and nothing further about taste. Everything above is a reading of the words on the lid against the way flavour vocabulary works in this category, and it is flagged as such rather than dressed up as an official description. The can itself carries whatever the manufacturer chooses to state, and it is the better source if you want their words rather than ours.

On aroma, one line and no more: a closed can gives off very little, and an opened one gives a concentrated version of the flavour it is built on, which for this name means the sharp, clean aromatic character described above rather than a sweet or heavy one. Any further detail would be invention.

Against the brand's other mint-named can

The brand has more than one mint-named product on our shelves, and the comparison people actually want is between them. The one we can put in front of you here is ZYN Cool Mint X, in stock at £19.99 — the same price as this pack.

Here is where our data runs out and where it does not. Both cans carry the same single flavour tag on our records — mint — and we hold tasting notes for neither. So our catalogue offers no basis at all for telling you how the two taste apart. Saying that plainly is better than inventing a difference, and inventing differences is exactly what a page like this is tempted to do.

What the names do give, honestly read, is one real distinction. "Cool Mint" names the family and a direction. "Menthol Ice" names a specific character within that family and a direction. Menthol is a narrower word than mint, so this can's name commits to something the other's does not. That is a difference in what has been stated, not a measured difference in flavour, and it would be wrong to present it as more than that.

The other honest distinction is the number. This can is 13.5mg. The Cool Mint X listing carries its own figure on its own page, and comparing those two figures is a great deal more meaningful than comparing the letter on one lid with the absence of a letter on the other. Which of the two figures suits you is not something we can tell you, and the section below explains why we will not try.

Beyond the brand's own shelf, the same limit applies across the mint category. SYX Cool Mint at £29.90 and White Fox Double Mint at £34.90, both available, are separate brands with their own recipes, and the only thing our records let us do is repeat what their names say — one a cool mint, one a doubled mint. Where two names point at the same place, we say our records cannot separate them.

13.5mg, and what a number on a can is for

The figure is 13.5mg per pouch, as the manufacturer states it and as we record it. It is a measurement. It is not a recommendation, not a target and not a suggestion about anybody.

We cannot advise which strength is right for any individual person. That holds on every page we publish and it holds here. It is a judgement about a person rather than about a product, and a shop selling the product is the wrong party to make it. The figures on cans you have already used are the only evidence that is actually about you, and this page has no access to them.

What the number is genuinely useful for is comparison. A milligram figure means the same thing on every can in this catalogue whoever made it, which is more than can be said for anything else printed on a lid. Brand naming does not translate: letters, doubled letters, roman numerals, colour codes and words like Bold, Slim and Pro all appear across the brands we carry, and a letter on one company's can tells you nothing about a letter on another's. They are marketing vocabulary, not units.

It is worth noticing that this can carries no letter at all, and sits at 13.5mg — a figure above that of some cans elsewhere in the range whose names do carry letters. That is not a puzzle to solve. It simply demonstrates that the naming and the measurement are independent of one another. Our shelves are built on the measurement and ignore the naming entirely, which is why the medium bracket contains cans with plain names and cans with lettered ones side by side, and why the strong and extra strong shelves above it are filing categories rather than a route anybody is being pointed along. There is no ladder here, nothing to work up to and nothing that a larger number makes anybody.

And even the figure narrows less than people expect. One hundred and thirty-five products share this can's bracket. Two cans at the same number can differ in flavour, format, pack size and price per can — in every respect, that is, that you would actually notice. The number is where a comparison starts, not where a decision ends.

Carrying it: what the format is actually like

This section is about the practical business of having a can with you, which is a different question from what is in it.

The format first, plainly. A nicotine pouch is a small sealed sachet that sits between the lip and the teeth, generally under the upper lip and usually off to one side. It stays put without being held. It is not chewed and it is not swallowed. Nothing is lit, heated, charged or refilled, and there is no device, no battery, no charger, no liquid and no spare parts. The can holds the entire product, which means there is nothing that can run out of power at an inconvenient moment and nothing to leave behind on a table.

On portion size we have to be straight about the limits of our record. We do not hold pouch dimensions or weights for this product and we are not going to estimate them from a photograph of a closed can. Where a ZYN product's name carries the word Mini — ZYN Coffee Mini, in stock at £19.99, is the example on this brand's shelf — that is the manufacturer indicating its smaller format. This one does not carry it, and that is the full extent of what we can say without guessing.

On how long a pouch stays in: we do not hold a figure and we cannot advise you on it. The manufacturer prints its own guidance on the packaging, the can in your hand is a better authority than any web page, and it varies between people, which is precisely why publishing a single number here would mislead somebody. There is not one, and there will not be one.

Discretion, in the literal sense, is a property of the format rather than a selling point we are making. There is nothing to see from outside unless somebody is looking deliberately, nothing to hear, nothing to hold and nothing to put down while a pouch is in. The can is small enough for a coat pocket. The lid is a catch lid — the top compartment exists so a used pouch has somewhere to go when a bin is not immediately available, which is the whole reason the design exists and is useful mainly away from home. That is a description of packaging, not an argument.

Three practical notes that regular users work out and others do not. The lid wants a firm turn rather than a nudge, because a can that feels closed and is not will dry out in a bag. The catch compartment only does its job if the can goes back in the right way up. And a can that has been carried around for a month has had a harder life than one that has sat in a cupboard, which matters when comparing the condition of two cans of the same thing.

Rules about where: whose they are, and why they are not ours

A shop gets asked this constantly and the honest answer is uncomfortable but short. We are not in a position to tell you where you may or may not use this product, and we are not going to try.

The reason is that the rules are not ours to state. An employer sets its own policy for its own premises. A venue — a pub, a stadium, a cinema, a hospital, a school site — sets its own, and those policies differ from one another and change without telling anybody. Transport operators set their own for their own services, and an airline, a train company and a bus operator will each have taken their own view. Countries differ from one another in law, and a rule that applies at one end of a journey may not apply at the other.

None of that is information a product page can hold accurately. If we published a general statement about where this is acceptable, it would be wrong somewhere, and being wrong about somebody's workplace or somebody's flight is not a small error. The correct source in every case is the organisation whose premises or service you are on: ask your employer about your workplace, check the venue's own published policy, and check the operator's conditions of carriage before you travel. If you are crossing a border, check the rules that apply at the destination, because they are frequently not the ones that apply here.

We can tell you what we know, which is the contents of our own records: what the product is, what it costs, what the figure on the can is, what our flavour tag says and whether it is in stock. Everything about permission in a particular place belongs to somebody else, and pointing you at them is more useful than a confident answer that might not hold.

The same applies to storage in shared spaces. Whether a can may be kept in a locker, a desk drawer or a vehicle is a question for whoever controls that space. What we would say regardless of any policy is the point made in the storage section below: keep cans out of reach and out of sight of children and of anyone who should not have them, wherever they are kept.

What people keep alongside a can like this

Very few people run one flavour to the end of a five-can pack without opening anything else. A single strongly flavoured product becomes wearing after a while, and the usual answer is a second can going somewhere different. Since this pack is five of one thing, that second direction has to be bought separately. Here is what sits near it on our shelves, all recorded as in stock at the time of writing.

Staying inside mint but changing the reading of it: Edge Spearmint at £14.95 and Velo Bright Spearmint at £4.19 are both spearmint, which is the sweeter and rounder side of the family — a genuine contrast with a menthol-named can rather than a repetition of it. The Velo line is a single can, which makes it the cheapest way in this list to add a second flavour without taking on another multi-can pack.

Staying closer to this can's character: Klint Arctic Mint at £36.90 uses the same cold vocabulary, and the SYX cool mint can at £29.90 and White Fox's double mint at £34.90 are the other substantial mint options in this set. All three carry higher headline prices than this pack, and all three want their own pack counts applied before the figures mean anything against five cans for £19.99.

Mint with something alongside it: 77 Apple Mint at £39.90 puts an apple note with the mint, and ZYN Blueberry Mint at £19.99 does the same with a berry from within this brand's own range. Both are available, and both are a deliberate move away from a single-note mint.

Leaving mint entirely, which is what most people actually do for a counterweight: Nordic Spirit Frosty Berry at £4.49 is a single can and a berry flavour; the Pablo Silver Edition blueberry and peach line at £39.90 is the larger option in fruit; UBBS Cola Ice at £19.95 is priced within pennies of this pack and goes to a cola note instead; and Fumi Dark Spice at £27.90 is the warm aromatic direction, which is about as far from a menthol name as our shelves travel.

None of that is a ranking, and none of it is us telling you what to like. It is a map of what sits nearby so that a choice is made from a real range rather than from one listing. For browsing rather than picking, the Pablo range and the Cuba range are two of the deepest brand shelves we run, and everything we stock is the complete view.

The rest of this brand's shelf

We carry 22 products from ZYN and the pricing across them is notably level — a great many, this one included, are listed at £19.99 — so the choice between them is about flavour and format rather than budget.

The fruit side runs through ZYN Black Cherry and ZYN Blackcurrant Forest, both £19.99 and both in stock. Black Cherry is a single dark fruit; Blackcurrant Forest reads as the broader berry blend. Neither carries a cold word in its name, which is the axis this can is built on, so both are a complete change rather than a variation.

Sharper and brighter, ZYN Citrus at £19.99 goes to the acidic end of fruit and is available. And the outlier on the shelf is the brand's coffee line in the mini format, same price, in stock, which differs twice over — a flavour nothing else here approaches, and the smaller format marked by the word Mini in its name.

Those five plus the cool mint line make six alternatives from the same brand at the same price. The rest are on the brand's shelf here, and it is worth looking directly, because individual flavours move in and out of stock and a description written on one day is a poor record of what is available on another.

Navigating 148 mint products without losing an afternoon

Because this can sits on the largest flavour shelf we run, a note on how to work through it is more use here than on most pages. The mint category holds 148 products, and a single tag covering that many cans is necessarily a blunt instrument.

The tag is ours, applied across the catalogue so that shelves stay browsable, and it does not distinguish between the readings of mint that actually differ. Spearmint, peppermint, menthol-named cans, doubled mints, arctic and icy mints and mint-plus-fruit combinations all carry the same word on our records. That is why this page has leaned so heavily on the names printed on lids: within mint, the name is usually the most informative thing available.

So the practical method is to narrow by name rather than by tag. If sweetness is what you want, look for spearmint in a title. If the cold, clean end is what you want, look for menthol, ice, arctic, frost or cool. If you want the mint diluted by something else, look for a fruit sharing the name. And once you have a shortlist by name, sort it by the milligram figure and the pack size, because those are the two fields that are consistent across every brand we carry.

Crossing shelves is the other move worth knowing. Several cans appear on more than one flavour shelf — a berry-and-mint product sits on both — so browsing the mint category alone will not show you everything mint-adjacent, and browsing by brand instead sometimes surfaces things a flavour shelf buries. This brand's own shelf is 22 products and can be read end to end in a couple of minutes, which is not true of 148.

And the limit, stated once more because it governs all of this: where two cans carry the same tag and the same sort of name, and we hold no tasting notes for either, our records give no basis for telling them apart. We will say that rather than fill the gap, and it is worth expecting that answer on any mint listing here rather than being surprised by it.

Storage and keeping cans in condition

We publish no shelf life for this product. The can carries its own date and that is the figure that applies. What follows is ordinary care rather than a claim about longevity.

Close the lid properly every time. The most common avoidable complaint about any can in this category is one that dried out because the lid was almost, but not quite, on. Keep cans cool and out of direct light: a car dashboard in summer, a sunlit windowsill and the shelf above a radiator are the three reliable ways to spoil one.

Refrigeration and freezing are not asked for on the packaging and are not something we are going to tell you to do. Room temperature, lid shut, out of the sun covers it entirely.

With five cans, four of them will sit unopened for a while. Those want a stable spot rather than a bag, and they want to be out of reach and out of sight of children and of anyone who should not have them. A high shelf or a locked drawer is the right place for the ones not in use, and the same applies wherever the can is kept, including in any shared space whose rules belong to somebody else.

What there is to choose here

Less than the layout of a product page suggests. One strength, 13.5mg. One price, £19.99. One pack, five cans. There is no stronger or weaker Menthol Ice in our catalogue and no alternative pack size of it, so the only genuine decision is whether this can is the one you want.

If you want this flavour at a different figure, we cannot supply 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 is a description of how the catalogue is organised rather than a sequence anybody is being invited to travel.

If you want this figure at a different flavour, the choice is wide: 135 products share the bracket, and the sections above name a dozen of them with prices and availability.

And on price comparison, the point that applies to every listing on this site: the headline figure is the price of whatever that listing sells, which is not always one can. This one is five for £19.99, close to £4.00 each. A £4.19 single and a £39.90 multi-can pack cannot be set against it, or against each other, until the pack counts are applied. Read the pack size first.

Buying, age verification and delivery

This is an age-restricted product and it is 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 unable to verify age at the door can decline to hand the parcel over, and that is not something we can override from our end. It is worth thinking about the delivery address before ordering, because a parcel going to a workplace reception or to a neighbour is one that may not be handed across.

Delivery, tracking and returns run on the terms shown at checkout rather than on a copy kept in a product description, because a copy here would go out of date without anybody noticing.

Stock moves across the catalogue week by week. This can was in stock at the time of writing and so was everything linked from this page, but the individual product page is always the current answer, and the full shop listing is where to pick up the trail if a link lands on something that has since sold out.

Where this can sits on the site

Three shelves hold it. The ZYN brand shelf gathers all 22 of the brand's products we carry. The medium strength shelf gathers the 135 that share its milligram bracket. And the mint shelf, at 148 products, is the largest flavour category in the shop and the busiest place to browse from here.

Above it in filing terms are the strong shelf and the extra strong shelf, which describe where products sit rather than where anybody should go. Among brands, Cuba and Pablo are two of the largest ranges we keep. And the complete catalogue is the only genuinely full view of what we hold.

Questions we get about this can

How is this different from the brand's cool mint can?

On our records, only by name and by the figure on each listing. Both carry the same single mint tag and we hold tasting notes for neither, so our data gives no basis for a flavour comparison. What the names do say is that menthol is a narrower word than mint — it commits to a specific character within the family — while cool mint names the family and a direction. That is a difference in what has been stated rather than a measured one, and we are not going to inflate it.

Does "Ice" mean it is cold?

No. Ice is a flavour convention naming the cold, clean reading of an ingredient, in the same way icy, arctic and frosty are used across this category. It describes how a flavour is built. It is not a claim about anything the product does to a person, and we do not make claims of that kind on this page or on any other.

Is 13.5mg strong?

Against our own filing it falls in the bracket we label medium, with shelves labelled strong and extra strong above it. Against your own experience, only you can judge, and that is the only comparison that means anything. We cannot tell you whether this figure is appropriate for you, because that is a question about a person rather than a product and a shop is not in a position to answer it.

Why does this can have no X or XX in its name?

Because the manufacturer did not put one there. Those letters are naming conventions rather than a scale, and their absence says nothing about the figure, which is printed plainly as 13.5mg. Our shelves are built on the milligram number and ignore naming entirely, which is why cans with plain names and cans with lettered ones sit side by side in the same bracket.

Can I use it at work or on a train?

We are not able to answer that and it would be wrong of us to try. Employers set their own policies for their own premises, venues set their own, and transport operators set their own for their own services. Those rules differ and they change. The organisation whose premises or service you are on is the only reliable source, so ask your employer, check the venue's published policy, and read the operator's conditions before travelling.

How many cans is £19.99?

Five, which works out at close to £4.00 each. Check the pack size before comparing prices anywhere on this site, because some listings are single cans — the £4.19 and £4.49 lines named above are singles — and some are multi-can packs at around £40. The headline price is the price of whatever that listing sells.

Is it spearmint underneath?

The name says menthol, not spearmint, and those are different readings of the mint family: spearmint is the sweeter and softer one, menthol the sharper and cleaner. Our record adds nothing beyond a single mint tag, so the name is the evidence. If you want the spearmint side specifically, the spearmint-named cans listed above state it outright.

Do I need a device or accessory?

No. There is nothing to charge, nothing to refill, no battery, no liquid and no spare parts. The can holds the entire product. That is equally true of every other item linked from this page.

What is the compartment in the lid for?

Used pouches. The lid is a catch lid, so there is somewhere for one to go when a bin is not immediately available. Empty it into general waste when convenient. It is a piece of packaging design rather than a product feature, and it only helps if the can goes back into a pocket the right way up.

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 place to check. We publish what is on our records, and origin is not on them for this line.

Are there official tasting notes?

Not on our records. We hold the name, the strength, the price, the pack size and one flavour tag. Everything said about taste on this page is an honest reading of the words on the lid, labelled as such rather than presented as a manufacturer's description. A short accurate account is worth more than a long invented one.

Will it still be in stock tomorrow?

We cannot promise that. It was in stock when this page was written, and the listing itself is the live record — it is the thing to check rather than this paragraph. Stock on individual flavours moves week to week across a catalogue of nearly four hundred products, and we do not publish forecasts because we do not have dependable ones.

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 under that age, and it is not offered to anybody 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 on this page should be read as one.

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

The short version

ZYN Menthol Ice is a five-can pack at £19.99, one strength at 13.5mg, tagged simply mint on our records, and in stock as this is written. The name is more specific than most on our mint shelf — menthol names a character, ice names a direction — but both are taste words and neither is a claim about an effect. Our records hold no tasting notes, so where another mint-named can carries the same single tag, we say plainly that we cannot separate them.

Which strength suits anybody is not something we can advise on, and where a product may be used is a question for whoever controls the place rather than for us. If this is not the can, the mint category holds 148 others and the full catalogue holds the rest.