CUBA Black – Ice Spearmint 43mg

Spearmint is softer and sweeter than peppermint, and CUBA Black Ice Spearmint 43mg adds a cold finish to that leaf before pairing it with 43mg of nicotine. It is one of two mint flavours in the CUBA Black series and comes in the same slim black pouch as the fruit cans. Twenty portions fill each tin.

Spearmint with ice: the CUBA Black Ice Spearmint 43mg taste

Peppermint gets most of its bite from menthol. Spearmint has far less, so its flavour is greener and rounder, closer to garden mint or chewing gum. The ice in the name signals a cooling layer on top, giving a crisp start without the harshness some strong peppermints have.

Ninja Ice Cool or Black Ice Spearmint?

Both are cold mints from the same Polish maker, but the strength gap is large. CUBA Ninja Ice Cool sits at 15.6mg in a white pouch with 25 per can; this one is 43mg in a black pouch with 20 per can. Moving up from Ninja means nearly three times the nicotine in each portion, so it pays to be sure before you switch.

A note on the pouch

Black series portions weigh about 0.65 g and use a plant-based cellulose filling with no tobacco leaf. The dark fabric is purely a series marker, so you can tell a Black tin from a White one once the lid is open.

• Nicotine per portion: 43mg
• Nicotine density: 66mg per gram
• Grade: Extreme
• Pouch: black slim, about 0.65 g
• Can: 20 portions
• Origin: Poland

For a colder, less leafy mint at the same dose, look at CUBA Black Cold Dry 43mg. Coming from lower strengths, CUBA Ninja Ice Cool 15.6mg is the gentler cousin, and CUBA nicotine pouches lists the lot.