LOOP Extra Strong – Habanero Mint 12.5mg

Hot pepper up front and cool mint behind it: LOOP Habanero Mint 11.8mg packs a habanero burn and fresh mint into one slim white pouch. This is the Extra Strong edition, a clear step above the 8.9mg cans that make up most of the LOOP shelf. It suits mint users who want some heat in the lip rather than yet another plain peppermint.

Habanero heat with a mint backbone

The habanero builds slowly instead of stinging straight away, and the warmth settles along the gum line. Mint runs underneath and keeps the finish clean, so the pepper never tastes like hot sauce. Unlike the jalapeno and red chilli flavours in the range, there is no lime or melon here to sweeten things, which makes this the driest and most direct of the hot blends.

Where LOOP Habanero Mint 11.8mg sits on the ladder

LOOP grades every can on a five-point scale and gives this one 4/5, so moving up from here adds another 3mg to every pouch. That places it above the 3/5 Strong tier and one rung below the 5/5 Hyper Strong cans. Habanero Mint skips the Strong step altogether: the brand makes it only in this 11.8mg version and as LOOP Habanero Mint 14.8mg Hyper Strong.

• Nicotine per pouch: 11.8mg
• Nicotine per gram: 20mg
• Strength: Extra Strong on our site, 4/5 on LOOP’s scale
• Format: slim, about 0.63g a pouch
• Pouches: 20 per can
• Net weight: 12.5g
• Total nicotine in a full can: 236mg

Prefer that strength without the pepper? LOOP Smooth Mint Extra Strong 11.8mg keeps the mint and drops the chilli entirely. LOOP comes from Another Snus Factory in Sweden, and chilli runs through a big share of its line-up, from Jalapeno Lime to Hot Peach. Every other flavour and strength is listed in the full LOOP range.