What Is Snu? The Snu Snus Range in Portugal

Snu is a nicotine pouch brand, and our Portugal shelf carries 32 cans of Snu snus in eleven flavours at 9mg, 12mg, 18mg and 45mg per pouch. Ten of those flavours make up a core range running from 9mg to 18mg, and five flavours reach 45mg in the stronger line known as Xtra High.

Reading a Snu can works a lot like checking the surf report before a morning at Ericeira or Peniche. The flavour tells you what sort of day it will be, and the mg per pouch tells you how big the waves are, so it pays to read both before paddling out. Snu pouches are made in the EU, with Swedish expertise behind them. Every lid also carries a small scented patch with an invitation to rub it and smell the flavour, which means the can introduces itself before it has even been opened.

How Strong Is Snu Snus on Our Shelf in Portugal?

Snu snus on our shelf in Portugal comes in four strengths, 9mg, 12mg, 18mg and 45mg per pouch, spread across three bands of our own strength scale. That scale reads Light from 1 to 8mg, Medium from 8 to 16mg, Strong from 16 to 25mg and Extreme from 25mg upward. As such, the 9mg and 12mg cans sit in Medium, the 18mg cans sit in Strong and the 45mg cans sit in Extreme, with no Snu can in the Light band. Every figure in a Snu product name is per pouch, and a flavour by flavour breakdown of each step is set out in Snu strengths and mg levels.

What Are Low, Medium, High and Xtra High on Snu?

Low, Medium, High and Xtra High are the brand's own names for its four strengths, matching 9mg, 12mg, 18mg and 45mg per pouch in that order. Those names belong to Snu, and they do not map neatly onto our bands, which is why a can the brand calls Low appears in our Medium band. Paradoxically, the gentlest sounding name lands a band higher on our chart, simply because our scale begins at 1mg and the Snu range begins at 9mg. The mg per pouch clears up any confusion, since it is the same number in every product name and on every shelf.

Which Flavours Come in the 45mg Snu Cans?

Black Ice, Cherry Cola, Tropical Punch, Wild Cherry and Fizzy Energy are the five flavours made in the 45mg cans. Black Ice is made only at that strength, so it has no 9mg, 12mg or 18mg version, while the other four also appear further down the scale. A reader in Porto who already knows Wild Cherry at 18mg, for example, will find the same flavour waiting at 45mg, with nothing changed but the number on the can.

Where Does Snu Start for Someone New to Snus?

Snu starts at 9mg per pouch, and ten of its eleven flavours are available at that first step. That makes 9mg the natural point of entry to the range (it is the strength the brand calls Low), with 12mg as the next step on the same flavours. Our own scale places a lighter band beneath 9mg, Light from 1 to 8mg, and that band is filled by other brands on the shelf in Portugal, so a reader who wants to begin below 9mg will find those cans elsewhere in the shop. Settling the mg per pouch first and the flavour second keeps the choice orderly, because once the number is right, every flavour at that number is a fair candidate.

Is mg per Pouch the Same as mg per Gram?

No. The mg per pouch figure states the nicotine inside one single pouch, while the mg per gram figure states how concentrated the nicotine is within the filling. To get from the second to the first, scale the concentration by what one pouch weighs, counted in grams. A pouch weighs well under a gram, so two quite different numbers can describe exactly the same pouch.

The distinction matters on Snu because Xtra High is quoted both ways, and the concentration figure is always the bigger of the two. The per pouch figure for every Xtra High can is 45mg, which is the number our strength scale uses. When setting Snu beside other brands on the shelf in Portugal, the fair method is per pouch against per pouch, since a concentration figure placed next to a per pouch figure only looks like a like for like comparison.

Does Snu Count as Real Swedish Snus?

Not in the traditional sense. Snu is a nicotine pouch brand, and its pouches are filled with plant fibre rather than ground tobacco. Old style snus is ground tobacco blended with water, salt and flavouring, whereas a nicotine pouch relies on plant fibre for bulk, with nicotine, flavourings and ingredients that manage moisture and pH added to it. Both rest under the upper lip, and that shared position is why one word now covers both, in the same way that football means a cup night at the Estádio do Dragão and a kickabout on the sand at Cascais.

Portugal also has an older place in the story than most readers expect. Tobacco ground for the nose reached Europe aboard Spanish and Portuguese ships, and Jean Nicot, the French ambassador in Lisbon, played a part in introducing crushed tobacco to the French court. The moist form used under the lip took shape later in Sweden, around the start of the 1800s, and the tobacco free pouch followed around 2003. Snu belongs to that newest chapter, with fruit, mint and drinks flavours at the centre of its range.

For How Many Minutes Should a Snu Pouch Stay in Place?

Plan on somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes, which comes down to personal preference. The nicotine curve climbs as moisture gets to work, levels off and then fades, and when the pouch has done its job you lift it out and put in a fresh one. Timing, swapping pouches and the shape of that curve are covered in more detail in how long a Snu lasts.

How Should You Position a Snu Pouch in Your Mouth?

Slide a Snu pouch in between your upper lip and gum, where moisture begins to release its nicotine and flavour. Leave it settled there for the whole session. A gentle tingle, or a cooling note with the mint and ice flavours, is part of how it feels. Pouch format and moisture both play a part in that feel, which is why two pouches at the same mg per pouch can sit a little differently. The full routine, from the first pouch to an everyday habit, is in how to use Snu.

The lid adds a step of its own. Every Snu lid carries a scented patch printed with the words to rub it and smell the flavour, so a reader in Coimbra torn between two fruit cans can rub both and let the scent settle the matter. It works much the way testing sun cream on the back of a hand does before a day on the beach at Faro, a small check that saves a guess. For a shortlist before any lids are rubbed, there is every Snu flavour ranked, best first.

How Are the Snu Lines Organised?

Snu is organised into two lines: a core range of ten flavours made at 9mg, 12mg and 18mg per pouch, and Xtra High, five flavours at 45mg per pouch. The core range carries most of the flavour variety, from mint to fruit to drinks, and two of its flavours stop short of 18mg on our Portugal shelf: Fresh Mint is stocked at 9mg and 12mg, and Watermelon at 9mg only. Xtra High takes four of those core flavours up to 45mg and adds Black Ice, which exists only in this line.

A reader who settles on a flavour in the core range can therefore move up or down in strength without learning a new flavour, and the four flavours that cross into Xtra High extend that move all the way to 45mg. How the two lines are built, and which flavours cross between them, is laid out in the Snu lines, core range and Xtra High.

Where Can You Get Snu Snus in Portugal?

Snu snus is available from our online shop, and we deliver to Portugal. Everything we sell is meant for adults of 18 and over.

Every Snu product name on our shelf carries its strength in mg per pouch, so the choice can be made from two facts, the number and the flavour, without decoding anything else on the label. The full list of Snu cans on our Portugal shelf is gathered in where to buy Snu in Portugal.

What Flavours Does Snu Come In?

Snu comes in eleven flavours, most of them fruit, with a mint, an ice flavour and two drinks flavours alongside. Each flavour keeps its name across every strength it is made in, so the family a can belongs to stays the same whether it reads 9mg or 45mg.

Fresh Mint and Black Ice

SNU Fresh Mint 9mg is the core range mint, and our shelf also carries it at 12mg. Black Ice belongs to the cooler side of the range but lives only in Xtra High at 45mg, so Fresh Mint and Black Ice sit at opposite ends of the Snu strength chart. The gap between 9mg and 45mg makes them the clearest example of how far apart the two lines run.

Fruit

Fruit is the largest family in the range, and its core flavours all start at 9mg. SNU Watermelon 9mg is the one fruit that appears at a single strength on our shelf, while SNU Triple Mango 9mg, SNU Strawberry Kiwi 9mg and SNU Grape 9mg each continue to 12mg and 18mg. SNU lemon & Lime 9mg brings citrus to the family at the same three steps. Tropical Punch and Wild Cherry run from 9mg right up to 45mg, which makes them the fruit flavours that stay with a reader across both lines.

The other core fruit cans on the shelf follow the same pattern. SNU Cherry Cola 9mg, SNU Fizzy Energy 9mg, SNU Tropical Punch 9mg and SNU Wild Cherry 9mg are all first steps in their own flavours.

Drinks

Cherry Cola and Fizzy Energy are the two drinks flavours, and both appear at every Snu strength on our shelf, from 9mg to 45mg. Fizzy Energy is built around the taste of an energy drink, and it sits beside Cherry Cola, Tropical Punch and Wild Cherry as a flavour that can follow a reader through every step of the scale.

How Does Snu Compare With Other Snus Brands in Portugal?

Snu compares easily with other snus brands on our Portugal shelf, because its four steps of 9mg, 12mg, 18mg and 45mg per pouch line up directly against the per pouch figures on every other can. Snu offers eleven flavours across four per pouch steps, so a reader in Braga moving across from a familiar brand can match the mg per pouch first and then choose the flavour family that suits them. The 9mg and 12mg cans share the Medium band with other brands, while the 45mg cans join the Extreme end of a shop that runs from 3mg up to 150mg per pouch.

To see Snu beside everything else we carry, buy snus from every brand and compare each can by its mg per pouch, or begin at snus and work through the brands from there. For a wider look at how different makers approach strength and flavour, there is a piece on Which Snus Brand Is Best?.