Tic Tac Mint — BULLSHIT

Munch or Dump rates Tic Tac Mint by Tic Tac BULLSHIT — score 0/90.

Marketed as a near-zero-calorie, 0g-sugar breath mint, but the #1 ingredient is sugar and it's roughly 90% sugar by weight.

Why this verdict

• '0g sugar' label on a product that is ~90% sugar by weight
• Sugar is the #1 ingredient, with fructose added as a second sweetener
• The '<2 calorie' claim relies on a sub-0.5g serving loophole, not on being low in sugar
• Contains an artificial flavoring substance (ethylvanillin)

Ingredients (8)

• Sugar (moderate) — Added refined sugar; spikes blood sugar and turns a milky base into a dessert.
• rice starch (moderate) — Another refined starch in the batter; part of the crisp-engineering stack.
• Thickener (INS 414 / gum arabic) (safe) — Gum arabic, a plant-derived thickener; generally well tolerated in small amounts.
• fructose (moderate) — A second added sweetener stacked on top of sugar.
• Natural and nature-identical flavourings (moderate) — Flavor blend that carries the mint taste; adds nothing nutritionally.
• Ethylvanillin (artificial flavouring) (moderate) — A synthetic vanilla flavor compound; a lab-made additive, undercutting any 'natural' impression.
• Anticaking agent (INS 470b, magnesium stearate) (safe) — Flow agent used in trace amounts to keep the pellets from clumping.
• Glazing agent (INS 903, carnauba wax) (safe) — Wax that gives the shiny shell. Inert and safe, but marks this as a heavily engineered confection.