Breath mints are a mint candy used to freshen the breath. Mints contain either artificial mint flavors or real mint oil. Popular types of mint include peppermint, spearmint, and wintergreen.
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Hard mints are popular breath fresheners. The flavor of the mint oil gives off a strong, clean taste and smell and can sooth one's mouth and stomach. Some mints even aid in digestion after eating a meal. Softer mints usually come in the form of butter mints or dinner mints. These mints are dissolved more easily and do not have as strong of a taste as regular hard mints. Some restaurants offer these mints after a meal and may be mixed with or covered in chocolate.
Popular Breath Mints
- Altoids
- Breathsavers
- Certs
- Dentyne Mints
- Ice Breakers
- Life Savers
- Mentos
- Tic Tacs
- Trident
Breath Mints History and Trivia
How Products are Made: Breath Mint
Wrigley: Mint Production
Popular Science: "Why do breath mints make your mouth feel cool?" (2002)
Snopes Urban Legends: Mentos and Coke Death | Defeating the Breathalyzer Test
References
Fast Facts
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Bestselling flavors
Peppermint and Wintergreen
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1780s
Altoids invented
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1912
Life Savers invented
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Fact:
Can help digestion after eating
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Fact:
May be combined with chocolate
