Velo - Crispy Peppermint | 10 Cans

VELO Crispy Peppermint: Britain's Best-Selling Nicotine Pouch

VELO Crispy Peppermint (formerly Ice Cool) is a clean, direct peppermint pouch with a cooling aftertaste, sold in slim tobacco-free cans at 6mg and 10mg, twenty pouches to a can. VELO describes it in seven words: "a simple peppermint flavour with a cooling aftertaste". That restraint is the point. This is the flavour that outsells every other nicotine pouch in the UK, and it does it by being unremarkable in the most useful possible way.

If you have been searching for Velo Ice Cool and finding a blue can with a different name on it, nothing has gone wrong. Ice Cool was renamed Crispy Peppermint in the January 2024 rebrand. Same recipe, same milligrams, brighter packaging. Morrisons and a handful of other retailers still list the old name, so both are in circulation.

Why This One Outsells Everything Else

Best-seller lists in this category are usually won by whatever is strongest or newest. Crispy Peppermint is neither. It tops out at 10mg while half the range goes to 17mg, and it has been on shelves in one form or another since the LYFT era.

What it has is the absence of reasons to stop buying it. The flavour is peppermint and nothing else, so there is no sweetness to tire of and no fruit note to grow sick of. The cooling is present but not aggressive, so your palate is intact afterwards. At 10mg it satisfies most regular users without the heavy-handedness of the Intense tier. One customer summed it up better than any marketing department has managed: not too strong, not too sweet, lasts well.

That is what an everyday pouch actually needs to be. Most people do not want a sensory event four times a day. They want something that works, tastes clean and gets out of the way, and Crispy Peppermint has been quietly winning that argument for years.

What Crispy Peppermint Tastes Like

Sharp and dry, straight away. There is no build to speak of: the peppermint is fully present within thirty seconds, and it reads as proper peppermint rather than the sweeter, rounder spearmint used in the gentler flavours. Think toothpaste-adjacent rather than chewing-gum-adjacent, though considerably more pleasant than that comparison suggests.

The cooling sits behind the flavour instead of leading it. You notice it as a clean freshness rather than a cold shock, and it outlasts the peppermint itself, which is what VELO means by a cooling aftertaste. Flavour holds for roughly 30 to 45 minutes. The pouch is slim, soft and moist enough to start working quickly, and the drip stays low.

The honest complaint, and it comes up often enough to mention, is an occasional salty note in the drip. It is not universal and it is not consistent between cans, but a minority of users find it and cannot get past it. Beyond that, the criticism this flavour attracts is really a compliment in disguise: it is boring. If you want a pouch with a personality, this is not it, and Peppermint Storm or the fruit end of the range will suit you better.

6mg or 10mg: Choosing Your Crispy Peppermint

Two strengths, both at the approachable end of the ladder. This is one of the few VELO flavours where a genuine beginner and a daily user can both be served by the same product.

The milligrams-per-gram figures are calculated from the can rather than copied from a listing: 20 slim pouches at 14g net works out at 0.7g a pouch. It is the number that tells you how concentrated a pouch is, as distinct from how much nicotine it contains in total.

Start at 6mg if pouches are new to you, whatever your history with other nicotine products. Absorption through the gum feels different from anything else and it is easy to overshoot. The 10mg is the one most people settle on and the one that does the heavy lifting in the sales figures. There is nothing above it in this flavour, so if 10mg stops registering, the answer is a different flavour rather than a stronger Crispy Peppermint.

The Three-Dot Puzzle on the 10mg Can

Look at the lid of a 10mg can and you will count three filled dots out of six, with the word ORIGINAL printed on the side band. Both are worth decoding, because VELO explains neither.

ORIGINAL is a tier name covering the middle of the strength range, sitting above Mellow and below Intense. It says nothing about the flavour being an original recipe or a first edition, which is how most people read it.

The three dots are the genuinely awkward part. VELO uses that count for both 8mg and 10mg flavours, so a three-dot Crispy Peppermint and a three-dot Lime Flame sit two milligrams apart while looking identical on the shelf. There is no way to tell from the dots alone. Read the printed milligrams, every time, and treat the dots as a rough position marker rather than a measurement. Our guide to VELO nicotine pouches sets out the full ladder from one dot to six.

Still Looking for VELO Ice Cool?

You have found it. Ice Cool, sometimes sold as Ice Cool Mint, is what this flavour was called before January 2024, and a fair number of people still search for it that way rather than for the current name.

The rename was part of a global tidy-up in which VELO moved to colour-coded cans, introduced the dot system and renamed most of the catalogue at once. Ice Cool became Crispy Peppermint, Polar Mint became Bright Spearmint, Cool Storm became Peppermint Storm and Freeze became Freezing Peppermint. Recipes and strengths were left alone throughout, which independent side-by-side comparisons confirmed at the time.

Because supermarket stock rotates slowly, old Ice Cool cans were still appearing well after the change, and some grocery listings have never been updated. If you have an Ice Cool can in a drawer and a Crispy Peppermint can in your pocket, they are the same pouch.

Crispy Peppermint Against the Other VELO Mints

The mint range runs from gentle to arctic. Crispy Peppermint sits in the middle and is the only one of them that most people can use continuously without their mouth staging a protest.

The natural progression is upward. People start on Crispy Peppermint, and those who eventually want more move to Peppermint Storm for brightness or Freezing Peppermint for cold. Going the other way, Bright Spearmint is the softer landing. Everything sits together on the VELO collection page, and the mint and menthol shelf covers the other brands we stock.

Crispy Peppermint Specs at a Glance

Tobacco-free means no tobacco leaf, not laboratory-made nicotine. UK VELO uses pharmaceutical-grade nicotine extracted from the tobacco plant, carried on plant cellulose. The all-white construction is the reason these will not discolour teeth the way traditional snus can.

How to Use VELO Crispy Peppermint

Twist the lid rather than levering it off. Fresh pouches sit in the body of the can and the shallow ring under the lid is where used ones go until you reach a bin.

Place one pouch flat under your upper lip against the gum, and leave it there. No chewing. A mild tingle in the first minute or two is normal and considerably softer here than on the high-strength mints. Thirty to forty-five minutes is the useful window, and most people take it out when the peppermint thins rather than watching a clock.

One at a time is plenty. Swallowing your saliva is fine, swallowing the pouch is not. Since the 6mg here is one of the more sensible first pouches available, our low strength collection is worth a look if you want to see what else sits at that end, and our note on daily pouch use covers the pacing question.

What Ten Cans Cost

Single cans sell for around £6.50 on the high street, so ten of them lands near £65. Our ten-can pack is £34.99, or £3.50 a can, and the 6mg and 10mg cost exactly the same.

This is the flavour where buying ten at a time makes the most sense, simply because it is the one people go through. It is also a sensible pack to split across strengths, since a 6mg for the working day and a 10mg for later is a common enough pattern and neither costs more. If you are building a mixed order, the mint collection shows the rest of the shelf.

Who It Suits, and Who Should Look Elsewhere

Buy it if you want a dependable everyday peppermint, if you are new to pouches and want the safest possible first purchase, or if you have tried the louder flavours and found them exhausting over a full day. The reason it sells more than anything else is not marketing. It is that very few people actively dislike it.

Look elsewhere if you need real strength, because 10mg is the ceiling here and Freezing Peppermint starts where this one stops. Look elsewhere if you want a mint with some drama to it, where Peppermint Storm is brighter and colder. And if plain peppermint bores you on principle, this flavour will not change your mind, because being unexciting is the entire design brief.

The official listing sits on the VELO UK Crispy Peppermint page, and our VELO flavour ranking places it against the rest of the range. Nicotine is addictive however mild the flavour, and these pouches are for adults who already use it.

Updated July 2026. Strengths verified against the official VELO UK range and prices checked against UK retailers at the time of writing.