Strawberry Banana Ice, IGET XXL 1800 Puffs

Banana is the risk in this blend and it is handled better here than most attempts manage. It comes through creamy and mellow instead of resembling the artificial banana lolly flavour that puts so many people off, and it sits beneath the strawberry rather than shoving it aside. Strawberry leads on the inhale, ripe and sweet. Banana appears on the exhale with a smoothie thickness. Ice then arrives late and cuts the richness so nothing turns cloying.

The obvious comparison is a chilled strawberry banana smoothie. It is one of very few blends on this shelf that reads as creamy rather than sharp.

An XXL costs $29.90 and carries the 1,800 puff rating.

Worth knowing: creamy flavours are the ones people tire of soonest, and if banana is not already something you enjoy, this will not convert you. The small format at least keeps the experiment short. Longer runs exist in the 5,500 puff Hot and the 7,000 puff Star. This is an adult product and we sell it only to over 18s.