Breathsavers Sugar Free Mints - Peppermint (12 ct.)

Item Purchased: Breathsavers Sugar Free Mints - Peppermint (12 ct.)
Location Purchased: BP Gas / 1221 S. Wabash / Chicago, IL
Price: $0.85 + tax

Review: I don't usually use breath mints or gum. The industry is a racket if you ask me. Bad breath caused by bacteria and rotting food or tooth enamel remedied by mints containing sugar and/or other chemicals that will only aid in rotting your teeth even more?

All that being said, I guess I can admit that I forgot to brush my teeth today before heading to work. Instead of making my coworkers and customers cringe, I bought these breath mints.

To the credit of the Hershey company (who manufactures Breathsavers), there is no sugar in these mints. There are several other ingredients with nefarious sounding names like sorbitol and polysorbinate though. I'm not sure what effect they will have on my teeth or future breath, but for now, they make it smell much better than my morning coffee does.

For a sugar-free product these mints have a pleasant taste without the plastic-like aftertaste of neutrasweet. The sugar substitute used in Breathsavers is called Nutrazin though. Likely a derivative of Neutrasweet that will probably give small mammals cancer. But hey...

...no aftertaste!

Rating: 3.25 / 5

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