Helwit Pear 4.5mg
Flavour: Pear
Strength: Regular · 4.5mg
Ways to buy: single can
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£399
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Helwit Pear, the orchard can from Småland
Walk into any newsagent and ask for a pear flavoured anything and you will get a long pause. Pear is the fruit that rarely gets its own can, which is exactly why Helwit Pear stands out on the shelf. It sits in Helwit's Regular line, the 4.5mg tier that runs through the middle of the brand, and it comes from YOIK AB's own factory in Gransholm, outside Växjö in Småland. The can is the usual Helwit white with the target rings in the flavour's colour and the name curved round the top, and Made in Sweden is printed on the side. Here's the thing. It is a gentle snus with one clear fruit in it, and it is not trying to be anything else.
Soft pear, crisp edge, clean to the end
Pop one in and the pear arrives soft and sweet, closer to a ripe conference pear from the fruit bowl than to a boiled sweet. There is a crisp, clean edge behind the sweetness that keeps it from going sugary, and that edge is what makes the can feel fresh rather than heavy. The flavour holds its shape through the load, so the last pouch tastes much like the first, with the sweetness easing off gently at the finish. No sharpness, no mint, no second fruit elbowing in. Just pear, done plainly. Fair play to it.
4.5mg a pouch, Helwit's middle rung
Every pouch carries 4.5mg 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 middle of three lines: Standard at 3.5mg below it, Regular here at 4.5mg, and Strong above, where the cans run from 6mg to 9mg. Six flavours share this rung, so Pear has company at the same number. There is no tobacco in a Helwit pouch; the maker's line is that the nicotine is extracted from tobacco leaf and the leaf itself stays out. Light snus for people who want the flavour to lead.
- Nicotine
- 4.5mg a pouch
- Profile
- Pear
Who keeps a Pear can in the jacket pocket
Pear suits anyone new to snus who wants a soft fruit and a low number, and it suits the regular who keeps a lighter can for the daytime. If you already use Helwit Strawberry or Cherry at the same 4.5mg, this is the obvious third fruit to rotate in. Fancy a touch more behind the fruit? Helwit Banana 7.5mg sits on the Strong line above it. Want it lighter still? Helwit Watermelon at 3.5mg is the Standard line's summer can. Give it a go.
Written by Harry Lowe