Helwit Banana 3.5mg
Flavour: Banana
Strength: Standard · 3.5mg
Ways to buy: single can
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£399
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Helwit Banana, the can the customers voted in
There's a story behind this one. Helwit tests new ideas with its customers under a label it calls Helwit Concept, and Banana won the maker's vote for the best Concept release of 2023 before earning a permanent place on the shelf. It sits in Helwit's Standard line, the brand's 3.5mg rung, with Nicotine 2/4 printed small on the lid. The maker is YOIK AB, a Swedish company that runs its own plant at Gransholm in Småland, outside Växjö, with Made in Sweden printed down the side of every can. So this is a soft, sweet, fruit led snus from a maker that let the public pick the flavour. Fair play to that.
Ripe banana, creamy from first pouch to last
Lift the lid and it is banana straight away, the ripe kind rather than the green kind. The maker describes it as sweet, tropical and creamy, and that is a fair summary of what happens on the gum. Think of the banana milkshake from a seaside café, smooth and rounded, with no sharp edge anywhere in it. The sweetness is gentle rather than sugary, and it holds its shape right through the load instead of drifting off halfway. The finish is soft and clean. No messing about, just banana doing its one job well.
3.5mg a pouch, Helwit's Standard rung
Each pouch carries 3.5mg of nicotine, which puts it in our light band, the one that runs from 1mg to 8mg. On Helwit's own ladder it is the first of three steps on our shelf: Standard at 3.5mg, Regular at 4.5mg, and Strong, where the cans run from 6mg to 9mg. The pouches are slim, and the maker packs 20 of them into each 10g can. Uptake is gentle and the curve is a slow one, which is exactly what a 3.5mg can is for. Light snus, properly made.
- Nicotine
- 3.5mg a pouch
- Pouch
- Slim
- Count
- 20 a can
- Profile
- Ripe, creamy banana
Who picks the banana, and what they try next
This is a can for people who want flavour first and a light number behind it, whether that means new to snus or just after something easy for the afternoon. If you like Banana and want the same taste with more behind it, Helwit Banana 7.5mg is the same flavour in the brand's Strong line. For a change of fruit at the same 3.5mg, Helwit Watermelon and Helwit Cola sit right beside it on the Standard rung. Give it a go.
Written by Harry Lowe